高三英语摸底考试摸底考试

高三英语摸底考试

第一部分： 单项选择（共 15题；每小题 1分，满分 15分）

1. Paper money was in ______ use in China when Marco Polo visited the country in _________

thirteenth century.

A. the; /

B. /; the

C. the; the

D. / ; /

2. Is that a book on farming? If so, I want to borrow _________ .

A. this

B. one

C. it

D. the one

3. All the peace-loving people are against American 'b s ombing Iraq. They think Bush is lifting a stone it on his own

feet.

A. only to have; dropping

B. to have; dropped

C. only to have; dropped

D. having; dropped 4. -Do you mind if I keep pets in this buildi ng?

A. No, you can 't

B. Of course not. It 'snot allowed here.

C. Great! I love pets.

D. I 'd rather you didn 't, actually.

5. Americans eat ________ vegetables per person today as they did in 1910.

-- It 's quite different from _________ I had last month. A. that B. the one C. which D. the one which

7. __________ he made up his mind to make a trip to Europe? A. When was it that B. That was it when C. That it was when D. When it was that

8. There are _____ of students in our school who will go to Hainan for the summer camping. __ of the students is about 300. A. a great many; The number B. the number; A number C. plenty; The number D. a great number; The number 9. -The radio isn 'tworking. I wonder what 'w s rong with it. -- _________ the batteries? A. will you try to change B. Have you tried to change C. Would you like to try to change D. Have you tried changing 10. _____ the old building successfully ______ on the spot, we let out a shout of joy.

A. Seen; exploded

B. Seeing; exploding

C. Seeing; exploded

D. Seen; exploding 11. I don 'tthink he has qualifications for the post in the government, _________ ? A. do I B. doesn 'the C. does he D. has he 12. _________ t he first to use nuclear weapons.

A. At no time China will be

B. Never China will be

C. Will China never be

D. At no time will China be 13. The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games is ____ soon. It 's the high time that we our

preparations.

A. coming out; got ready for

B. coming off; get back for

C. coming up; got dow n to

D. coming around; get over 14. His fiction book disappeared from the closet of the school. Who _________ it?

A. must have take n

B could have take n

A. more than twice C. twice as many as 6.

-How do you like the cake?

B. as twice as many D. more than twice as many

C. should have take n

D. would have take n

15. Firemen said the fire was under control, but they warned that the change in the weather might new fires.

A. lie in

B. bring in

C. result i n

D. break out

第二部分：完形填空（共两小节，共30小题；每小题1分，满分30分）

Cloze A

Do you know what kind of things the young people are reading? More and more 16 and parents have noticed another kind of pollution, which comes from the printed papers _17 on streets.

These prin ted things 18 n ewspapers but have hardly anything to do with 19 . You

can only find reading materials badly made up there —some are too strange for anyone to 20 ; others are frighte ning stories of someth ing 21 . However, many of the young readers

are gett ing in terested in such 22 readi ng, which 23 them what they should pay for

their breakfast and brings them nightmares and immoral （邪恶的）ideas in 24 . Homework

was left 25 and daily games lost.

These sellers shout on streets selling their papers well. The writers, publishers and printers, 26 they are, we n ever know, are 27 their sile nt mon ey.

The sheep-skinned wolf ' story seems to have been forgotten once again. Why not _28 this kind of thing? Yes, both teachers and pare nts have asked each other for more strict con trol of the young readers. 29 , the more you want to forbid it, the more they want to have a look at

it . 30 you may even find several childre n, drive n by their curious n atures, 31 one

patched paper, which have traveled from hand to hand .

It really does 32 to our society. It has already formed a sort of moral pollution. The 33 teachers and pare nts n eed more powerful support in their protect ion of the young generation. At the same time, the young 34 need more interesting books to help them _35 those ugly papers.

16. A. writers B. readers C. stude nts D. teachers

17. A. sold B. prin ted C. put D. fou nd

18. A. work out B. look like C. act as D.depend on

19. A. them B. childre n C. young people D. it

20. A. think B. believe C. know D. un dersta nd

21. A. still worse B. even better C. very good

D. more importa nt

22. A. wonderful B. in terest ing C. useful D. pois onous

23. A. spends B. costs C. pays D. takes

24. A. sight B. com mon C. return D. use

25. A. unknown B. much C. less D.undone

26. A. what B. whoever C. whatever D. wherever

27. A. making B. spe nding C. wasti ng D. using

28. A. forbid B. separate C. leave D. stop

29. A. Luckily B. Un fortu nately C. Badly D. Happily

30. A. Always B. Hardly C. Sometimes D. Seldom

31. A. share B. get C. hold D. take

32. A. good B. favor C. wrong D. harm

33. A. puzzled B. surprised C. disappo in ted D. worried

34. A. teachers B. pare nts C. readers D. writers

35. A. come into B. break dow n C. get rid of D. get off

Cloze B请在横线内填入单词的适当形式

History is full of examples of successful people with disabilities. They 36 to the society rather tha n give up. The case of Professor Stephe n Hawki ng is one example of the many of the 37 people who have achieved success in the chose n field of work. Beethove n lost his _ , yet continued to write great music. Some people have wrong 39 towards them, considering them stupid. Actually, many people have a disability. Some n eed glasses to read, some may have _40

in moving. It is probable that one day we ' 41 up with a disability. In China, more government program has been 42 to help them. More 43 schools will be built. We should also bring these people back to no rmal school,_ __ young people will lear n about disability by going to the same schools and lear n to help them more, it is 45 to both sides.

第三部分：阅读理解（共15小题：每小题2分，满分30分）

A

Amy Tan, the America n-born daughter of Chin ese immigra nts, received the Common wealth

Club Gold Award in 1989 for her first work of novel, the best-selling Joy Luck Club. The sixteen

in terrelated stories that make up the work switch betwee n the tales of four Chin ese immigra nt mothers and their Americanized daughters, in an exploration of the generational and cultural tensions experie need by many first-ge nerati on daughters of immigra nts.

Tan's parents, like many immigrants, had high expectations for their children and often set confusing standards, expecting Amy and her two brothers to think like Chinese but to speak perfect En glish, excelle nt at school, and take adva ntage of every cha nee that might lead to success. Tan, however, rebelled against her parents' expectations, which included such respected professi ons as n eurosurgery, and devoted herself to being thoroughly America n and dream ing of being a no velist.

Tan got a bachelor's degree in English and linguistics and a master's degree in linguistics and fin ally established herself as a highly successful bus in ess writer. Tan, however, was not satisfied in spite of her material success. Turning to her life-long dream, she wrote her first short story, "En dgame," and the n a sec ond, "Waiti ng betwee n the Trees." In 1987 Tan visited her half-sisters in China with her mother, a trip that proved to be a turning point in her life and career. Tan felt a

sense of completeness, a link with the country and its culture that she had never expected. Returning from China, Tan was surprised to learn that on the strength of her short stories she had received an adva nce from a publisher. Tan closed her

bus in ess and wrote the remai ning stories for the Joy Luck Club. It was a resounding success, well received by the critics

and appearing on the New York Times bestseller list. It has bee n tran slated into 17 Ian guages, in clud ing Chin ese, and

was made into a movie in 1993.

46. What is the author's main purpose in this passage?

A. To analyze Amy Tan ' literary works

B. To support Amy Tan's decision to become a novel writer

C. To prese nt biographical in formatio n about Amy Tan

D. To criticize Amy Tan's rebellion against her parents

47. In the 2nd sentence of Paragraph 1, the words "the work" refer to _______ .

A. stories

B. writi ng

C. Commo nwealth Club Gold Award

D. Joy Luck Club

48. Before beco ming a novel writer, Amy Tan was a successful ______ .

A. bus in ess writer

B. publisher

C. En glish teacher

D. n eurosurge on

49. The expectati ons of Tan's pare nts in cluded all of the followi ng EXCEPT ________ .

A. being excelle nt at school

B. speak ing perfect En glish

C. questi oning traditi on

D. choos ing an importa nt professi on

50. It can be inferred from the passage that ________ .

A. Tan's pare nts un derstood her difficult situati on but wan ted the best for her

B. It took Tan a while to gather the courage to seek her dreams

C. Tan started writing novel in order to make more money

D. Tan had always wan ted to return to China

B

Lan guage lear ning begi ns with liste ning. Childre n are greatly differe nt in the amount of liste ning they do before

they start speak ing, and later starters are ofte n long liste ners. Most children will “ obey ” spoken instructions some

time before they can speak, though the word

is hardly accurate as a description of the eager and delighted cooperation usually shown by the child. Before they can

speak, many childre n will also ask questi ons by gesture and by making questi oning no ises.

Any attempt to study the developme nt from the no ises babies make to their first spoke n words leads to

considerable difficulties. It is agreed that they enjoy making noises, and that during the first few mon ths one or two no ises

sort themselves as particularly expressive as delight, pain, friendliness, and so on. But since these can ' t be said to

s intention to commu show the baby '

they can hardly be regarded as early forms of Ian guage. It is agreed, too, that from about three mon ths they play with

sounds for enjoyme nt, and that by six mon ths they are able to add new words to their store. This self-imitation （模仿）

leads on to deliberate （有意的）imitation of sounds made or words spoke n to them by other people. The problem the n arises as to the point at which one can say that these imitati ons can be con sidered as speech.

It is a problem we n eed to get out teeth in to. The meaning of a word depe nds on what a particular pers on means

by it in a particular situati on and it is clear that what a child means by a word will cha nge as he gains more experie nce of

the world. Thus the use at seve n mon ths of

“ mama” as a greeting for his mother cannot be dismissed as a meaningless sound simply because he also uses it at

other times for his father, his dog, or anything else he likes. Playful and meaningless imitation of what other people say continues after the child has begun to speak for himself, I doubt, however whether anything is gained when parents take

advantage of this ability in an attempt to teach new sounds.

51. _______________________________ Before children start speaking .

A.they need equal amount of listening

B. they need different amounts of listening

C. they are all eager to cooperate with the adults by obeying spoken instructions

D. they can't understand and obey the adult' s oral instructions

52. ________________________________ Children who start speaking late .

A.may have problems with their listening

B. probably do not hear enough language spoken around them

C. usually pay close attention to what they hear

D. often take a long time in learning to listen properly

53. _____________________________ A baby ' s first noises are .

A.an expression of his moods and feelings

B. an early form of language

C. a sign that he means to tell you something

D.an imitation of the speech of adults

54. The problem of deciding at what point a baby ' s imitations can be considered as

speech _______ .

A.is important because words have different meanings for different people

B. is not especially important because the changeover takes place gradually

C. is one that should be properly understood because the meaning of words changes with age

D. is one that should be completely ignored （忽略）because children's use of words is often meaningless

55. _______________________ T he speaker implies .

A.parents can never hope to teach their children new sounds

B. children no longer imitate people after they begin to speak

C. children who are good at imitating learn new words more quickly

D.even after they have learnt to speak, children still enjoy imitating

C

Laptop （便携式） computers are popular all over the world. People use them on trains and airplanes, in airports and hotels. These laptops connect people to their workplace. In the United States today, laptops also connect students to their classrooms.

Westlake College in Virginia will start a laptop computer program that allows students to do schoolwork anywhere they want. Within five years, each of the 1,500 students at the college will receive a laptop. The laptops are part of a ＄10 million computer program at Westlake, a 110-year-old college. The students with laptops will also have access to the Internet. In addition, they will be able to use e- mail to “ speak ” with their teachers, their classmates, and their families. However, the most important part of the laptop program is that students will be able to use computers without going to computer labs. They can work with it at home, in a fast-food restaura nt or un der the trees — any where at all!

Because of the many changes in computer technology, laptop use in higher education, such as colleges and universities, is workable. As laptops become more powerful, they become more similar to desktop computers. In addition, the portable computers can connect students to not only the Internet, but also libraries and other resources. State higher-

education officials are studying how laptops can help students. State officials also are testing laptop programs at other universities, too.

At Westlake College, more than 60 percent of the staffs use computers. The laptops will allow

all teachers to use computers in their lessons. As one Westlake teacher said, “ Here we are middle of Virginia and we 're giving students a window on the world. They can see everything and

do everything. ”

56. The main purpose of the laptop program is to give each student a laptop to _____ .

A. use for their schoolwork

B. access the Internet

C. work at home

D. connect them to libraries

57. Why is the word “ speak ” in the 2ranpdhpianraqguotation marks?

A. They don 't really talk.

B. They use the computer language.

C. Laptops have speakers.

D. None of the above reasons is correct.

58. Which of the following is true about Westlake College?

A. All teachers use computers.

B. 1,500 students have laptops.

C. It is an old college in America.

D. Students there can do everything.

59. A window on the world in the last paragraph means that students can ______ .

A. attend lectures on information technology

B. travel around the world

C. get information from around the world

D. have free laptops

60. What can we infer from the passage?

A. The program is successful.

B. The program is not workable.

C. The program is too expensive.

D. We don't know the result yet.

考试答案

第一部分：单项选择（共15题；每小题1分，满分15分）1-5..B C C D D 6-10 B A D D C 11-15D D C BC

第二部分：完形填空（共两小节，共30小题；每小题1分，满分30 分）16—20 DABAB 21—25 ADBCD

26—30 BAABC 31—35 ADDCC

36.adapt 37. disabled 38. hearing 39. attitudes

40. difficulty/difficulties 41. end 42. designed 43. special

44. where 45. beneficial

第三部分：阅读理解（共15小题：每小题2分，满分30分）46—50 C D A C B 51 - 55 BDAD 56- 60 AACCD