江西省五校高三第一次联考英语试卷

Nowadays people are more likely to go to ____ mall than visit the tailor when shopping for clothes, so tailors have adapted to ____ new reality.

. -What about the price of these washing machines?
-They are equal in price to, if not cheaper than, ____ at other shops in the street.

-He had a headache and went to drugstore to get something for his pain ____.
-But the form cannot be signed by anyone ____ himself.

Despite being taken from very different sources, the results are remarkably ____.

All the photographs in this book, ____ stated otherwise, date from the 1950s.

As a famous public figure, you have a duty to ____ yourself responsibly, especially in public places.

. Lucy found one of her friends had been ____ after she finished the invitations to her wedding party.

Measures must be taken to prevent pollution ____ happily.

I don’t think David could have done such a stupid thing last night, ____?

-Why are you still here? Everybody has gone to attend the lecture by the president.
-Oh, I ____ about it!

When ____ to danger and conflict, men tend to increase blood pressure, ____ nervous or anxious.

-I need to put a cross on the map to show ____ that famous hotel is.
-____? Mary’s done it already.

I’ll go to the party with you ____ you don’t wear those strange trousers.

It has been accepted that all the students ____ put on masks before going to school in case they are infected with flu virus.

The door opens and there ____.

America is built on the idea of freedom, and there is no exception for Muslim women. I        the freedom of religion and speech. But mostly, I believe it’s OK to be        , and to stand up for who and what you are. So I believe in wearing the hijab.
The hijab is a religious head covering, like a scarf. I am Muslim, and keeping my head covered is a        of maturity and respect toward my         and to Allah’s will.        , I also like to wear it to be different. I don’t usually like to do what everyone else is doing. I want to be a(n)          , not just part of the crowd. But when I first wore it, I was also afraid of the           that I’d get at school.
I        on my own that sixth grade was the        I should start wearing the hijab. I was        about what the kids would say or even do to me. I thought they might make fun of me, or        be scared of me and        my head-scarf. Kids at that age usually like to be all the same, and there’s little or no        of differences.
On the first day of school, I put all those      thoughts behind my back and walked in with my head held high. I was holding my breath a little, but        I was also proud to be a Muslim, proud to be wearing the hijab, proud to be different.
I was        about everything I thought the kids would say or even do to me. I actually met a lot of people because of wearing my head covering. Most of the kids would come and ask me questions —       — about the hijab and why I wore it.
I did hear some kids were making fun of me,       there was one girl — she wasn’t even in my class, we never really talked much — and she spoke        me, and I wasn’t even there! I made a lot of new friends that year, friends that I still have until this very day, five years later.
Yes, I’m different, but everyone is different here, in one way or another. This is the beauty of America, which lies in its         .

A．believe in B．stick to C．believe D．insist

A．independent B．free C．sensitive D．different

A．signal B．sign C．reminder D．symbol

A．religion B．country C．parents D．status

A．In a word B．In general C．To be exact D．To be honest

A．princess B．heroine C．individual D．adult

A．praise B．punishment C．reaction D．reflection

A．hoped B．expected C．realized D．decided

A．time B．chance C．case D．occasion

A．disappointed B．scared C．enthusiastic D．angry

A．still B．already C．even D．ever

A．show off B．pull off C．pick up D．put up

A．rejection B．ignorance C．awareness D．acceptance

A．negative B．optimistic C．serious D．strange

A．often B．inside C．only D．outside

A．concerned B．particular C．wrong D．convinced

A．respectfully B．cautiously C．suspiciously D．critically

A．and B．so C．but D．or

A．in terms of B．in front of C．in charge of D．in favor of

A．significance B．diversity C．value D．power

Educating Girls Is a Real Lifesaver
Clare Short knows it. Every developing economist knows it. The World Bank knows it. The education of girls is the surest way to reduce poverty.
The reason is simple. All the evidence shows that taking girls out of the fields and homes, and putting them behind desks, raises economic productivity, lowers infant and maternal(产妇) death rates, reduces birth rates, and improves environmental management.
Why, then, are 90 million primary school-age girls around the world not in school? For the same reason that when Charles Dickens was writing David Copperfield 150 years ago girls were absent from the British education system: Men in power mostly prefer it that way, or are not interested enough in changing the situation to commit energy and money to doing so.
The countries with the poorest record for having women in positions of power or influence have the worst figures for girls’ education. High-profile intervention(介入) by organizations such as the World Bank has begun successfully with several countries, and more of the same will probably be needed to bring change in conservative, male-run states.
Even if there were no development payoff from gender equality in schools, the education of girls would still be a cause worth fighting for. Education is a human right, and the denial of it to girls is a scar on the community in the twenty-first century.
To be born a girl in a rural area in Nepal, Pakistan, Indonesia, Morocco, Togo, or Sudan — half a dozen of the most shameful performers — means being condemned to a life without school, education, or clean water, marriage and babies coming too early, too many births, children who die of preventable diseases, backbreaking work in the fields, subordination(从属) to husband and his family, and an early death.
Every year, almost 12 million children under the age of five needlessly die of infectious diseases associated with poverty. But each additional year spent by their mothers in primary school lowers the risk of premature child deaths by about 8 percent. In Pakistan, an extra year of school for 1,000 girls could prevent sixty infant deaths.
With women and girls being the main farmers in Africa and southern Asia, their education offers a chance to develop more efficient farming practices, improve output, and raise awareness of the ecological needs of the land with tree planting and farming. Therefore, the world community cannot afford to ignore this avenue of change.
Which is Not the reason why educating girls reduces poverty?

What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 3 refer to?

Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

How many more infants will survive when 100 girls stay in school for another year?

What does the author think of girls’ education?

If you’re travelling in the following cities, these exciting events may drag you out of the house.
CONCERTS
Mayday Noah’s Ark World Tour
Info: Jul 13, Xiamen; Jul 19/20, Shanghai; Aug 3, Shenzhen; Aug 17, Beijing
The rock band Mayday is about to bring their attractive tour to an end — and, as usual, it’s going to happen in a grand way. On Aug 17, they will rock the National Stadium, or the Bird’s Nest Stadium, and hold their last Noah’s(诺亚方舟) Ark concert in China, before heading to Europe in September.
Tanya Chua 2013 Concert Tour
Info: Aug 10, Shanghai; Aug 31, Beijing
In her music career of more than 15 years, the 38-year-old Singaporean singer-songwriter has never been short of popular songs that astonish the heart. Now, for the first time since 2008, when she played a small Christmas concert in Shanghai, Chua is visiting China as part of a concert tour.
THEATER
What is Success?
Director: Edward Lam
Performers: Chu Hung-chang, Ethan Wei, Shi Yi-hsiu
Info: Aug 9-10, Guangzhou; Aug 16-17, Chongqing; Aug 29-Sept 1, Beijing
In Part Three of Edward Lam’s Four Great Classics Series, which looks back at Luo Guanzhong’s novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it is sure to give you a surprise. Will it be true? Find out for yourself!
To Live
Director: Meng Jinghui
Performers: Huang Bo, Yuan Quan
Info: Jul 30-Aug 4, Beijing; Aug 6-7, Tianjin; Aug 9-11, Hangzhou; Aug 13-18, Shanghai
After their world show in September, theater director Meng Jinghui and his team are back for another tour around China. While audiences can renew their memories of Yu Hua’s new realism works, film stars Huang Bo and Yuan Quan will also impress audiences with their excellent performance.
EXHIBITIONS
Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes Eternal(永恒)
Info: Apr 29-Jul 28, Shanghai
Launched in 2012 — the 25th anniversary of the pop artist Andy Warhol’s death — the exhibition brings the largest ever collection of Warhol’s work to Asia. It includes more than 300 paintings, photographs, drawings and 3-D art, including his works such as Marilyn Monroe, Mao, Campbell’s Soup and Self-Portrait.
You may find the above advertisements ____.

The rock band Mayday is going to give concerts in ____ after they perform in Beijing.

Tanya Chua 2013 Concert Tour is her ____ concert in China.

Travelling in Hangzhou on Aug 10, you can watch film star Huang Bo’s works ____.

The main purpose of the advertisements is to tell you ____ when you are in these cities.

No opera smells of the sea quite like Britten’s Peter Grimes. The music makes us constantly aware of the sea’s immensity, it’s potential for threat, and the play of light on its waves. But the sea isn’t just a special background, it weighs on the lives of the characters, offering them a living, but at a price. In the first act the laboured sound of the strings evokes (引起) the complete heaviness of the sailor’s work, as they haul(用力拉) the boats up the shingle (鹅卵石). Then a storm gathers which rages(肆虐) through the scene at the Inn, and stirs up an orchestral hurricane. Even when it’s calm and favorable, the sea is inescapable.
In the comfortable enclosed world of the opera house, this can only be suggested. In the production of Peter Grimes about to open at the Aldeburgh Festival, it will be really present, because the opera is taking place on the beach, the setting for much of the narrative of Britten’s opera, and also the poem by the Suffolk poet George Crabbe that inspired it.
This won’t be the first opera production to be set in the actual landscape in which the action takes place. There’s a well-known filmed production of Tosca shot in Castel Gandolfo in Rome, and a production of Donizetti’s Anna Bolena was once mounted in the moat(护城河) surrounding the Tower of London. But those were manageable urban landscapes, with comfortingly solid buildings to act as wind shields and acoustic blocks.
On the Aldeburgh beach there’s actually nothing, apart from a few boats, some whole, some wrecked. Here anything more complicated than walking the dog is hard to solve. The wind blows away one’s words, so conversation is hard, and anything not tied down tends to blow away. The sliding shingle turns one’s steps into a drunken stagger.
The idea of performing an opera in these conditions seems quite barmy — an accusation Aldeburgh director Jonathan Reakie takes cheerfully on the chin. Why has he done it? “Well, Grimes is the opera of Britten’s that’s most associated with Aldeburgh, but it’s never been produced at the Festival which he founded. There just isn’t the space for it. In his anniversary year we wanted to focus on Britten’s connection with Suffolk, and this seemed the boldest way to do it.”
Having had the mad idea, Reakie found his colleagues were not just accepting, but enthusiastic. “We spent a long time thinking about ways to do it. One idea we had was to do all the scenes at the right time of day. There’s one scene at dawn, another at midday, and a lot of action at night, but that was too complicated. Then we thought about doing a few scenes on the beach. But in the end, we thought hell, let’s just do the whole thing.”
Which of the following can best describe the sailor’s work in the first act?

How is Paragraph 2 mainly developed?

What does Paragraph 4 mainly tell us?

The underlined word “barmy” (in Paragraph 5) is closest in meaning to ____.

Reakie’s partners’ attitude towards his opera on a beach is ____.

I guess I always knew about the little fish treat, but this past summer it was all I could see. Pipin and Nemo were balancing on one front flipper(鳍), flying through hoops, dancing with the trainer, and we were all applauding — the little kids screaming with delight. That’s when the trainer, who wore a little treat bag on her belt, slipped Pipin and Nemo a fish. Each time they successfully performed a trick, they’d get an immediate reward.
These creatures weren’t really dancing, of course. They were performing a series of movements that they knew would produce a fish. It’s such a good show because the sea lions look like they’re having such fun. These talented performers who love to be in front of an audience seem almost human.
Somewhere in our faith journey, we all have a sea lion moment. You see how you’ve spent years jumping through hoops, balancing a ball on your nose, not because it’s really who you are, but because you’ve always done it and the system rewarded you for your performance. But when you’ve done that for ten or twenty years, you start to ask yourself, “Whose approval am I working for? What do I really believe?” Suddenly you see it: you’ve spent most all your life taking direction from other people. They’ve told you what to believe in, what to work for, what to value, how to live your life. You don’t want to end your life like Sinclair Lewis’s George Babbitt, the middle-aged real-estate broker(经纪人) who has everything and reached the top. But on the last page of Babbitt, George is speaking to his son Ted, who cannot follow in his father’s steps. He wants to leave college and head off on his own way. “Dad, I can’t stand it any more,” the boy says. “Maybe it’s all right for some fellows. Maybe I’ll want to go back some day, but now, I want to get into mechanics.” Babbitt, seeming old and subdued, says, “I’ve never done a single thing I’ve wanted to in my whole life!”
The Good-Bye Gate brings us naturally to a second passage, leading from dependency to self-possession. As you start separating from the whole worn-out system, you discover that where there is supposed to be a self, there really isn’t.
The sea lions were pleased to perform in front of the audience because they ____.

While watching the sea lions’ performance, the author ____.

By saying “we all have a sea lion moment”, the author means that ____.

What do you learn about George Babbitt?

Which can be the best title for this passage?

[1] Boys whose fathers work very long hours are more likely to be aggressive, according to a new research. A study of more than 1,400 children found those boys, whose fathers worked more than 55 hours a week, were more aggressive than their peers, yet the same thing didn’t happen to daughters. What’s more, mothers’ working hours did not seem to affect it.
[2] Now, further research needs to be carried out to find out why this happens in males, and to look for ways to tackle it. In Germany, 15 percent of fathers of children, aged three and four, worked 55 or more hours a week. Dr. Jianghong Li said, “It is possible when fathers work very long hours, children are less well monitored after school, especially if mothers also work full time hours. There is some evidence young boys are less well monitored than girls, when fathers have high work related demands. As a result, it will cause more problems.
[3] The average amount of time parents spend with their children has increased in recent years, but the quantity and quality of parent-child time is still raised as a concern. Studies in the US and Australia point to a desire among parents to work fewer hours and spend more time with their children. A wish among children is that parents would come home from work less tired and stressed.
[4] The finding provides evidence to support equal opportunities for mothers and fathers to share parenting and work responsibilities. Instead of focusing on negative effects of mothers’ working hours, policy makers should pay attention to negative results of fathers’ long working hours for children’s emotional well being. Fathers should be urged not to work long hours, but to have a greater share of parenting responsibilities.
What’s the main idea of the passage? (no more than 11 words)
 
How much time should fathers work a week at most according to the passage? (no more than 5 words)
 
What would happen if fathers work too long hours? (no more than 10 words)
 
What’s the desire among children according to the passage? (no more than 10 words)
 
What does the text suggest to us? (no more than 10 words)
 

在英语课堂上，你的周围有一些学习效率高的同学，他们表现突出，这与他们良好的习惯是分不开的。请就此话题用英语写一篇120词左右的短文，举一两个例子说明他们的良好习惯，并谈谈你的看法。