2010-2011学年度高三英语联合考试
第一节：完形填空（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）
One day, when I was working at a children’s institution in England, an adolescent boy showed up in the waiting room. I went out there where he was walking up and down restlessly.
Tim wore a black raincoat that was 1 all the way up to his neck. His face was pale, and he stared at his feet while wringing（扭）his hands nervously. He had 2 his father as a baby, and had lived with his mother and grandfather ever since. But the year before he turned 13, his grandfather and mother were killed in a car accident.I looked at Tim. He was very 3 and depressed. He refused to talk to me. The first two times we 4 , Tim only sat hunched up（蜷缩）in the chair without saying a word. As he was about to leave after the second visit, I put my hand on his shoulder. He didn’t 5 back, but he didn’t look at me either.
“Come back next week, if you like,” I said. I 6 a bit. Then I said, “I know it hurts.”He came, and I 7 we play chess. He nodded. After that we played chess every Wednesday afternoon—in 8 and without making any eye contact.
Usually, he arrived earlier, took the chessboard and pieces and set them up before I even got a(n) __9 to sit down. It seemed as if he enjoyed my 10 . But why did he never look at me?
“Perhaps he simply needs someone to share his 11 with,” I thought.
One afternoon, Tim took off his raincoat and put it on the back of the chair. While he was setting up the chess pieces, his face seemed more 12 and his motions more alive.
Some months later, I sat staring at Tim’s head, while he was bent over the chessboard. I was thinking about how little we knew about the healing process. 13 , he looked up at me. “It’s your __14 ,” he said.
After that day, Tim started talking.Maybe I gave Tim something, but I learned a lot from him. He showed me how one---without any words—can reach out to another person. All it 15 is a hug, a shoulder to cry on, a friendly touch, a sympathetic nature—and an ear that listens.
1．A．putB．buttonedC．wrappedD．tied
2．A．hatedB．foundC．missedD．lost
3．A．sadB．madC．calmD．tough
4．A．talkedB．triedC．gatheredD．met
5．A．callB．put C．draw D．ring
6．A．suspectedB．hesitatedC．worriedD．doubted
7．A．insistedB．demandedC．orderedD．suggested
8．A．satisfactionB．patienceC．silenceD．excitement
9．A．promiseB．invitationC．orderD．chance
10．A．appearanceB．techniqueC．companyD．instruction
11．A．painB．secretC．ideasD．interests
12．A．seriousB．worriedC．livelyD．pale
13．A．SuddenlyB．Nervously C．StrangelyD．Fortunately
14．A．timeB．turnC．fault D．way
15．A．worksB．givesC．takesD．makes
第二节：语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
This semester, a total of 129 monitoring (监视的) cameras were set up in our school. Stairs, hallways, gates are all equipped.Everybody is talking about it.
Most students have mixed opinions about the change. On the one hand, they think we’re safer on campus. Just think: With 129 new high-definition (高分辨率的) cameras ___16___ (work) day and night, who would dare to break into school? All images recorded ___17___ (send) to the operationroom.On the other hand, students think the cameras are peeping (窥视) on them as well. They think they aren’t free to say ___18___ do what they want. The cameras remind them they have to behave ____19____, which makes them unhappy. They want their freedom and privacy.But at least our ____20____ (secure) is guaranteed. Also, we don’t have to worry about our personal property. ____21____ is said, freedom is not something you are given, but something you have to fight ____22____. Giving some of my freedom in exchange for safety is ____23____ fair trade.If the cameras are watching ____24____ I am doing, let them watch! I don’t behave any ____25____ (different) from other students. Moreover, even if they can monitor what I do, they can never get into my mind and know what I am thinking.
第三节：阅读（共两节，满分50分）
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For years, Candace Eloph searched for her half-brother, who was given up for adoption in 1977. Last month she found him -- living across the street."I never thought it would happen like this. Never." Eloph of Shreveport, Louisiana, told CNN television.
About three decades ago, Eloph's mother gave birth to a boy in Louisiana. She was 16 and gave him up for adoption."They took him from me," said Eloph's mother, Joellen Cottrell. "I only held him for a second."
Cottrell searched for her son over the years, without success.She eventually left Louisiana, got married and had other children. But she did not keep her son a secret."My girls always knew they had a brother," she said. "They knew it from the very beginning. And I've always looked for him."
Fast forward three decades.Eloph moved into a house in Shreveport. Across the street lived a man named Jamie Wheat.
"One day, we were sitting, talking, and she said, 'You know what? I had a brother born on January 27, 1977, who was adopted. He must be 32 years old now. Wheat said. "I told her, ‘I'm adopted.’"
All the other details fitted, so Cottrell and Wheat decided to take a DNA test.The results:There's a 99.995 percent probability that the two are related.
Wheat's adoptive parents were happy for their son. His adoptive father, Ted Wheat, told CNN, “It was just surprising that they lived across the street from us for three years.”
Reunited with his birth mother, Jamie Wheat planned to make up for lost time."A weight has been lifted off me," he said. "I can move forward. It’s a new beginning."
26. How old was Eloph's mother when she found her son?
A. 32 B. 48 C. 50 D. 52
27. What can be concluded from the passage about Jamie Wheat?
A. Wheat and Eloph share the same father. B. Wheat was adopted soon after he was born.
C. Wheat agreed to move and live with Cottrell. D. Wheat didn't know Ted was his adoptive father
28. After giving birth to a boy, Elop's mother ______.
A. never had the chance to see him B. moved into a house in Shreveport
C. left Louisiana and started a new life D. had kept her son a secret for 30 years
29. How did Eloph find that Wheat is her half brother?[来源:zyy100.com]
A. Wheat came to find them at first. B. Eloph turned to the TV media for help.
C. Some neighbors in her neighborhood gave a hand.
D. Eloph had a chat with Wheat and found that by chance
30. After he was reunited with his mother, Jamie Wheat felt______.
A. upset B. surprised C. regretful D. relieved
B
How to improve our life?Many people think that they have to accept whatever life throws at them.They'll say,"This is my destiny(命运).I cannot change it."
Of course not!You don't have to suffer needlessly.Your life depends on you,not on any other external(外部的)factor.
I know a woman who says she just accepts what life gives her because she has done everything she can to improve it. Guess what her lifestyle is?She wakes up in the morning,goes to work,comes back home,relaxes,chats with people,watches TV,and then goes to sleep.Next day,the same routine cycle follows.
Huh!Is this what she calls"doing her best"?She believes she has tried her best and just accepts it in her heart that this is the life that has been intended for her and that her luck can only change if God wills it.She hasn't realized that we have to do our share of making the effort to live the life of our dreams.
Remember that you harvest what you sow.You have to get off the sofa, get your eyes off the TV screen,get your hands off the phone(unless it contributes to your success),and get your mind and body to work!Don't expect your luck to change,unless you do something about it.If something goes wrong,don't just regard it as a temporary setback;instead,learn your lesson,make the most of the situation,and do something to solve the problem.It's not enough to think positively;you also have to act positively.
If someone's life is in trouble,do you just hope and pray that things will turn out fine?Of course not!You get to do anything you can to save the person.So it is with your own life.It is not enough to hope for the best,but you have to do your best.In other words,don't just stand (or sit)there,do something to improve your life.
31. According to the woman mentioned in Para3, her life ______.
A. doesn't need improving B. couldn't be improved
C. will be better some day D. will be worse in the future
32. What does the author think of the woman's life?
A. Positive B. Passive C. Colorful D. Disturbing
33. Which of the following statements is the author's opinion?
A. Your temporary problem is not discouraging.
B. Your luck can be changed by your own efforts.
C. You can only achieve success when God wills it.
D. You should treat yourself in the way you treat friends.
34. In Para. 5, the author emphasized the importance of ______.
A. positive thinking B. positive action C. hope for the best D. intention to succeed
35. The text is mainly written to advise you to ______.
A. understand yourself B. improve your life
C. believe in yourself D. change your normal way
C
When Matthew Jones decided to donate a kidney (肾) to a stranger, the Michigan father of five had no idea he'd be starting a life-saving, "pay-it-forward" chain.
His kidney donation to a Phoenix woman in 2007 set off a long-running organ donation that resulted in 10 sick people getting new kidneys over a year. It hasn't ended yet.
Jones, who lives in Petoskey, Michigan, heard a news report about a man giving a kidney to a stranger and thought he'd like to do that, too. He worked with a transplant center in Buffalo, NY, but no match worked out.
He ultimately(最后) was referred to Dr Michael Rees, a transplant surgeon at University of Toledo Nedical Center, who was trying to design an advanced living-donor pairing system.
It paired the 30-year-old Jones with Barb Bunnell, a 53-year-old Arizona woman whose husband wanted to donate a kidney to her but wasincompatible.
Just after the July 18, 2007 surgery, Jones recalls feeling "like a truck had run over me". But he was well enough to go to a Diamondbacks baseball game five days later.
Bunnell's grateful husband, Ron, then became what Rees believes is the world's first "bridge" donor, meaning he donated his kidney later.
Ron Bunnell was on a plane a week later to give his kidney to a 32-year-old Toledo woman, Angie Heckman. She's a waitress at a bar owned by her mother, Laurie Sarvo. Sarvo then gave a kidney to a woman in Columbus, Ohio, whose daughter then became the fourth donor in the chain.
On it ran through patient-donor pairs including two more married couples, a daughter and father, and two friends. The last operation was done last March, with a 60-year-old woman in Toledo getting a kidney from a Baltimore donor. That recipient's daughter wants to donate a kidney, but a match hasn't worked out yet.
"There's a very good possibility that when I'm dead and gone, this chain will still be going on," Jone said.
36.What made Jones decide to donate his kidney?
A. His plan to start a life-saving kidney donation chain.
B. His plan to start a living-donor pairing system.
C. The example of a man who had donated a kidney.
D. The example of a man who had taken part in a donating chain.
37.The underlined word "incompatible" in Para.5 probably means "______".
A. of different types B. with health problems
C. for a better use D. in a good condition
38. According to the text, " 'bridge' donor" refers to ______.
A. a person who introduces a kidney donor to a patient in need
B. a person who donates a kidney after his family member receives one
C. a person who does the operation of moving a kidney
D. a person who is responsible for matching different types of kidneys.
39. Which of the following shows the RIGHT donor-patient relationship?
A. Matthew Jones---Michael Rees; Barb Bunnell---Ron Bunnell.
B. Matthew Jones---Michael Rees; Angie Heckman---a woman in Toledo.
C. Matthew Jones---Barb Bunnell; Ron Bunnell---Laurie Sarvo.
D. Matthew Jones---Barb Bunnell; Laurie Sarvo---a woman in Columbus.
40.What can be inferred about the kidney donation chain?
A. It was started in 2007, and ended in 2008.
B. It has included three couples up to now.
C. It encourages family members to help each other.
D. It has caused great debate among doctors.
D
Teenagers who drink alcohol are at higher risk of becoming victims of violence, a CardiffUniversity study has found.
A team from the School of Dentistry' s Violence Research Group studied drinking habits inchildren aged 11--16 in England. They found not only a link between drink and violence but alsothat children who drank were more likely to be hit, even if they weren' t violent themselves.
The researchers are now calling for measures to prevent alcohol misuse to reduce injuryrisk. Current policy focuses on reducing aggression but this research shows that there should beequal effort to reduce victimization(受害).
More than 4,000 children were surveyed at 13 schools at four local authorities in the North, the Midlands, London, and the South. The study found that 25% of 11-year-olds were drinkingmonthly and 3.6% daily, with 12.8% admitting to getting drunk 3 to 5 times a year. By the ageof 16, 40% were drinking weekly and 6.2% were drinking every day. The research also showed22.6% of 16-year-olds were getting drunk more than 21 times a year.
The study, which has just been published in the Journal of Adolescence, found a stronglink between frequency of drinking and frequency of hitting other people.
However, children who reported drinking monthly were also three times more likely to behit. Adolescents who drank but didn't get into fights were more likely to be hit thanthose who did fight.
Professor Jonathan Shepherd, who led the research, said a lot of previous alcohol-relatedviolence work had focused on the offenders rather than the victims. His team is calling for more prevention work from parents and teachers in the first two years of secondary school by taking advantage of the "teachable moment", that is, immediately after a student has missed school because of drunkenness.
Previous work by Professor Jonathan Shepherd has shown drinkers may be more at risk of violence because of reduced physical co-ordination (配合), poor decision-making in threatening situations and isolation (孤立)while out late at night.
He said,"This new study seems to be the first to show a direct link between alcohol misuses and victimization. There now needs to be much more effort put into reducing alcohol misuse in order to reduce injury. "
41.The main idea of the passage is that teenagers who drink alcohol ______.
A. often offend other people B. are more likely to become injured
C. always become victims of violence D. are more likely to fight with others
42. The underlined word "aggression" in the third paragraph probably means_____
A. violence B. sad feelings C. bad manners D. drunkenness
43.The research argues that more effort should be made to ______.
A. reduce aggression B. prevent fighting
C. reduce victimization D. prevent drinking alcohol
44. Drinkers may be more at risk of violence because of all the following EXCEPT __
A. reducing the physical co-ordinationB. isolation while out late at night
C. a higher frequency of hitting other peopleD. poor decision-making in threatening situations
45. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to Professor Shepherd' s research?
A. The frequency of children getting drunk increases with age.
B. His previous alcohol-related violence work had focused on the offenders
C. Some children missed school because of drunkenness.
D. This new study shows a direct link between alcohol misuse and victimization.
第四节：信息匹配（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）W_w w.k*s*5 u.c@o m
以下是几个国际节日的简要介绍：
A. Wharfedale Festival of Performing Arts West Yorkshire, the United Kingdom
Young people are invited to compete in this arts festival with classes covering speech, guitar, dance, poetry and short story writing, and so on. The previous year's winners are invited back to perform again at a special concert. With a long and well-known history behind it, this well-attended competition is a kind of forerunner of popular television talent contests such as Pop Idol.
B. Sydney Writers' Festival Sydney, Australia
Held at Sydney's Wharf 4/5, the annual Sydney Writers' Festival is the biggest literary event of its kind in Australia and one of the biggest book fairs in the world. Attracting a mix of authors, poets, editors, publishers and book lovers, this is a great event at which people can look through thousands of titles while enjoying workshops, book readings and seminars.
C. Flipside Festival Singapore
As part of the Singapore Arts Festival Outreach Programme, Flipside aims to reach a much wider audience with three weeks of lively, fun street performances. Flipside promises to bring out the adventurous side of you with a combination of physical theatre and mind games as well as free outdoor performances such as music performances from local singers.