暖春三月，贴心开学测 高三英语第二套

Some animals carry seeds from one place to another, ______ plants can spread to new places.

Last night, there were millions of people _______ the opening ceremony live on TV.

--- What time is it?
--- I have no idea. But just a minute, I ______ it for you.

---- What are you going to do this weekend?
---- I don’t know. I       go to Beihai Park.

Tom always goes jogging in the morning and he usually does push-ups too to stay ________.

--- Jenny, do you remember the first time we met?
--- Sure. You ______ the suitcase at the airport.

It is the first time that Michel _______ the Summer Palace.

I know a little bit about Italy as I _____ there several years ago.

---Susan is so excited!
---Oh, yes! She is busy preparing for her trip to Africa that she _____ for years.

I don’t know ________ is in charge of English department.

I won’t call you ________ something unexpected happens.

The foreign guests, ____ were government officials, were warmly welcomed at the airport.

Christmas is a holiday usually celebrated on December 25th ____________ the birth of Jesus Christ．

You don`t have to dress up ．The party is pretty ___    ．We only need to bring a  bottle of wine．

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

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
From my second grade on, there was one event I feared every year: the piano recital(独奏演唱会). A recital _____I had to practice a boring piece of music and perform before strangers. Each year I _____ask my father if I could skip the recital “just this once”. And each year he would shake his head, muttering(嘀咕) _________about build self-confidence and working toward a ________.
So it was with really great_____that I stood in church one recent Sunday, video camera in hand, and ______my 68-year-old father sweating in his shirt ______rising to play the piano in his very first recital.
My father had longed to play music since childhood, but his family was poor and couldn’t ________lessons. He could have gone on regretting it, _______too many of us do. But though he was rooted in his past, he wasn’t ________there. When he retired three years ago, he ____ his church music director to take him as a student.
For a moment after my father sat down at the keyboard, he _____stared down at his fingers. Has he forgotten the ______? I worried, remembering those split seconds____ago when my mind would go blank and my fingers would ______. But then came the beautiful melody(旋律)，from the _____fingers that once baited(装饵于) my fishing lines. And I______he had been doing what music teachers always stress:________the music and pretend the others aren’t there.
“I’m _______of him for starting something new at his age,” I said to my son Jeff.
“Yeah, and doing it so_______,” Jeff added.
With his first recital, my father taught me more about courage and determination than all the words he used those 30-plus years ago.

A．reflected B．explained C．meant D．proved

A．would B．could C．might D．should

A．nothing B．everything C．anything D．something

A．goal B．stage C．journey D．chance

A．trouble B．satisfaction C．strength D．disappointment

A．kept B．sent C．watched D．felt

A．through B．from C．against D．before

A．miss B．afford C．select D．understand

A．as B．once C．if D．while

A．educated B．protected C．stuck D．spoilt

A．allowed B．invited C．inspired D．persuaded

A．roughly B．simply C．merrily D．curiously

A．words B．videos C．notes D．lessons

A．decades B．weeks C．hours D．moments

A．play B．freeze C．click D．adjust

A．same B．warm C．different D．dirty

A．predicted B．realized C．imagined D．insisted

A．pass over B．turn up C．bring in D．concentrate on

A．ashamed B．aware C．tired D．proud

A．casually B．anxiously C．nicely D．frequently

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
The following are letters to the editor of a school newspaper
Dear editor,
I’d like to express my opinion about grades. Students should be allowed to study without worrying about grades. Fortunately, most educators are becoming aware of the fact that students have different interests and abilities. I understand that grades are useful, but grades often limit creativity. Competing for better grades causes many students to turn down opportunities to pursue music, dramatics and sports. Grades force an arbitrary(武断的) standard of success on everyone. I do not demand as some extremists do, that grades be removed immediately. However, I do believe that less emphasis should be placed on grades. I hope that someday grades will become optional at Village High School.
Magdalena Smith
Drama Club
Dear editor,
I’d like to say something about grades. Let’s face the facts about grades. Grades perform three basic functions. First, grades motivate students to work at their highest level of competence. Second, they act as a reward for hardworking students and as a punishment to students who do not work hard. Finally, grades are used as an effective standard by which to measure student achievement. Good grades help students to get jobs and to get into university. I've spoken with a number of students who have jobs, and most of them say that they were hired primarily on the basis of their grades. My grades helped me land a part-time job and will help me get into university next year. I think grades are extremely important at Village High School.
Simon Harper
Science Club
Which of the following is not Magdalena Smith’s opinion?

We can learn Simon Harper _____.

From the second letter, we can infer that Simon Harper is a/an_____.

B
Nelson Mandela is respected and admired across the world. And to South Africans he is a superstar. He is a hero who shocked the world by fighting for peace between races, despite the 27 years he spent in the prison of the South Africa’s white, racist regime(政权).
Mandela who won the nation’s first all-race elections after the fall of apartheid (种族隔离) in 1994, retired 1999.
But he remains as popular as ever.
“He’s loved by all people, whether you’re white or black, whether you’re young or old,” said Ali Bacher, South Africa’s former cricket (板球) chief.
His popularity has inspired an entire national industry. His portrait(肖像) has appeared at many places, including on some goods. His face has appeared on a South African coin, a metropolitan area was named in his honour and some business leaders hope to build a massive, rotating statue in his likeness --- the Statue of Freedom. It would stand taller than New York’s Statue of Liberty.
His popular appeal is similar to that of John F. Kennedy with US or Winston Churchill in Britain, but few politicians in this times have achieved his level of admiration, said Tom Lodge, head of the political science department of the University of the Witwatersrand.
“Sometimes it isn’t completely appreciated what a skilled performer Mandela has been throughout his political career. He’s a very, very clever man.” However, he is far from perfect.
Most articles for his birthday, which appeared in every major South African newspaper on the day, brief mentioned that Mandela did have his shortcomings.
Then they returned to their flowing praises.
“Through the ages, the human race has had its icons (偶像) --- men and women who rose above ordinary people to inspire their generations,” The Mail and Guardian Weekly said. “In our generation, the gods presented us Nelson Mandela.”
Nelson Mandela is loved by all the people of South Africa because _____.

Which of the following statements about Mandela’s portrait is true?

The underlined sentence in the last paragraph means “________.”

What can we infer from the text?

C
When it comes to hard, noisy traveling, we’ve found that sometimes we’d rather read about it than actually go. Here are some bestsellers for armchair travelers.
The Station by Robert Byron. In 1928, the 22-year-old man made a journey to Mount Athos, resulting in one of the best travel books ever written, matched only by Byron’s own, much more famous The Road to Osciana.
In Darkest Africa by Henry Monton Stanley. It’s about his great efforts to save an unlucky German doctor Eduard Schnitzer, who had no desire to be rescued at all.
A Traveler’s Alphabet: Partial Memoirs by Sir Steven Runciman. A to Z and around the world. He provides priceless information of long-gone princesses, priests, and places.
South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage by Sir Ernest Shackleton. As the planet started the global war, Shackleton and his brave group of explorers made an unsuccessful but heroic journey to cross Antarctica from 1914 to 1917.
The Michelin Red Guide: France 2005 Reading through this final listing of all the nice hotels and wonderful restaurants in France is better than going there, listening to Chirac talk about the poisonous American culture, and spending the price of this book for a tiny cup of tea and a cookie the size of your thumb.
The Past Is a Foreign Country by David Lowenthal. This great book of an armchair exploration tells us what has happened in the past and shows the relationship between us and the past travelers.
The underlined phrase “armchair travelers” in the first paragraph refers to those who___________ .

Which of the books has a very low price according to the passage?

What can we learn from the passage?

This passage is written____________ .

D
Bursting into the classroom from recess, 15 children take their seats and face the woman they know as Ms. Yang.
“What day is it today?” she asks, in Mandarin Chinese.
“Confucius’ birthday!” the fifth graders shout in Mandarin.
“Why do we celebrate Confucius’ birthday?”
“Because he’s the greatest teacher in the history of China!” exclaims a brown-haired girl. She is speaking Mandarin.
English is rarely heard in Lisa Yang’s class at the Chinese American International School(CAIS), despite the fact that few students are native speakers of Mandarin.
The United States is actively trying to increase the group of students in “critical languages” such as Mandarin. The students at CAIS are way ahead in such a trend.
Founded 25 years ago, this small private school in San Francisco, USA, does what few other American schools do: It produces fully fluent speakers of Mandarin Chinese, by far the most commonly spoken language in the world.
Mandarin Chinese is suddenly hot in American schools. As China becomes the world’s leading economy sometimes this century, schools in the U. S. are scrambling to add Mandarin to their list of foreign languages or expand Chinese programs already in place.
“It really is almost unprecedented. People are looking at China as a force to be reckoned with… And to ensure that the U. S. has the ability to conduct trade, and to work with the Chinese. Certainly having an understanding of Chinese language and culture is an advantage,” said Marty Abbott of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages(ACTFL).
To develop Chinese-language programs has not been smooth. A shortage of trained teachers has made it difficult for some schools to join the race. When schools do get teachers, they often hire them straight from China, and the teachers usually suffer culture shock when they come to the U. S.
Robert Liu remembers his first two years in an American classroom It was not an easy adjustment. “In China, students respect their teachers,” he said. Liu found that American students, however, expect an active teaching style. He had to use games to engage them rather than lectures.
To avoid many of the problems with foreign teaching styles, the CAIS has been working with the Chinese government to improve training of teachers who are sent to the U. S.
Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

What kind of problem is the most difficult to adjust in teaching Chinese in America?

The meaning of the underlined word “scrambling” is similar to        .

It can be learned from the passage that       .

根据短文内容，从短文后的七个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。补全对话
Mary: Mike, how do I look in these blue jeans?
Mike:       They really suit you, Mary!
Mary: Thanks, you know, these kinds of jeans are in style now.
Mike:      
Mary: I mean...they are very popular these days; everyone is wearing them!
Mike: You are great at keeping up with fashions.
Mary: Well,       
Mike: Perhaps you can help me pick out a pair of jeans now, since you are an expert.
Mary:       I would be happy to help you with your fashion change!
Mike:     

E. I am a girl after all.
F. What do you mean?
G. Thank you so much!

语法填空（共10小题；每小题1分，共10分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
One morning , I was waiting at the bus stop , worried about      (be ) late for school .There were many people waiting at the bus stop ,   some of them looked very anxious and  (disappoint) .When the bus finally came , we all hurried on board .I got a place next       the window , so I had a good view of the sidewalk .A boy on a bike     (catch)my attention .he was riding beside the bus and waving his arms . I heard a passenger behind me shouting to the driver , but he refused    (stop ) until we reached the next stop .Still , the boy kept      (ride) . He was carrying something over his shoulder and shouting .Finally , when we came to the next stop , the boy ran up to the door of the bus . I heard an excited conversation .Then the driver stoop up and asked, “1     anyone lose a suitcase at the last stop ?” A woman on the bus shouted , “Oh dear “ It is    （I）”.She pushed her way to the driver and to the little boy .Everyone on the bus began talking about what the boy had done .And the passengers _    （sudden） became friendly to one another .

书面表达
一家英语报社向中学生征文，主题是“十年后的我”，请根据下列要点和你的畅想完成短文。
1.家庭：
2．工作：
3.业余生活。
注意：1.词数100左右：
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯：
3.开头语已为你写好。