高三英语限时训练

2018年秋学期高三英语限时训练（11）(A)

编制人：吴浩然审核人：张子文

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I．完形填空(20分)

Some years ago on a hot summer day in south Florida, a little boy decided to go for a swim in the old swimming hole behind his house.

In a hurry to dive into the 1 water, he ran out of the back door, leaving 2 shoes, socks, and his shirt as he went. He flew into the water, not realizing that as he swam toward the middle of the lake, an alligator was swimming toward the 3 . His mother — in the house was looking out of the window — saw the two as they got 4 together. In utter fear, she ran toward the water, 5 her son as loudly as she could.

Hearing her voice, the little boy became 6 and made a return to swim to his mother. It was too late. Just as he reached her, the alligator reached him.

From the dock, the mother 7 her little boy by the arms just as the alligator snatched his legs. Then began an incredible tug-of-war between the two. The alligator was much 8 than the mother, but the mother was much too passionate to 9 . A farmer happened to drive by, heard her screams, raced from his truck, 10 and shot the alligator.

11 , after weeks in the hospital, the little boy survived. His 12 were extremely scarred by the vicious attack of the animal and, on his arms, were deep 13 where his mother's fingernails dug into his flesh in her effort to hang on to the son she loved.

The newspaper reporter who interviewed the boy afterwards, asked if he 14 show him his scars. The boy did so. And then, with obvious 15 , he said to the reporter, “But look at my arms. I have great 16 here, too. I have them because my mom wouldn't let go.”

You and I can identify with that little boy. We have scars, too. No, not from a(n) 17 , or anything quite so dramatic, but the scars of a(an) 18 past. Some of those scars are unsightly and have caused us deep 19 .

But, some wounds, my friend, are because God has 20 to let go. In the midst of your struggle, he's been there holding on to you.

1. A. apparent B. cosy C. freezing D. moderate

2. A. off B. out C. alone D. behind

3. A. shore B. destination C. border D. harbor

4. A. down B. started C. closer D. connected

5. A. cursing a t B. yelling to C. blaming on D. cheering up

6. A. frustrated B. alarmed C. stressed D. inspired

7. A. pushed B. tore C. touched D. grabbed

8. A. stronger B. rougher C. crueler D. swifter

9. A. set off B. get down C. let go D. drive away

10. A. took place B. took action C. took care D. took aim

11. A. Fluently B. Deliberately C. Amazingly D. Absolutely

12. A. legs B. cheeks C. toes D. hands

13. A. injuries B. damages C. sufferings D. scratches

14. A. would B. should C. must D. dared

15. A. bravery B. strength C. pride D. confidence

16. A. desires B. scars C. cures D. muscles

17. A. ancestor B. parent C. alligator D. helper

18. A. painful B. rewarding C. depressed D. honorable

19. A. thought B. impression C. confusion D. regret

20. A. failed B. refused C. determined D. intended

II．单项选择(15分)

21. many of us today take the television for granted, it’s actually one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century.

A. If

B. Unless

C. While

D. Since

22.________ to the current education system of China, the Ministry of Education should make

some changes to make it more efficient for selecting talents.

A. Most of us are so accustomed

B. So are most of us accustomed

C. Accustomed as most of us are

D. As most of us are accustomed

23. Even though she pretends to be fine, her smile cannot hide her sorrow.

A. authentic

B. artificial C confidential D controversial

24. This young man likes travelling—he is always .

A. in a rush

B. at a crossroads

C. in a dilemma

D. on the move

25. Once winter became less of a threat to human beings in literature, literary works it became more positive.

A. featuring

B. being featured

C. having featured

D. featured

26. The climate in Kunming is quite pleasant, the temperature rarely, , reaching 35°C in summer.

A. if not

B. if any

C. if ever

D. if so

27. The last part 0fthc government report the importance of bridging the gap between science and development policy.

A. updates

B. claims

C. strengthens

D. underlines

28. Many elderly people consider school days as their golden days they cannot return again.

A. on which

B. by which

C. to which

D. from which

29. — How about travelling abroad this winter holiday, just for a change?

---OK. , you want.

A. whichever

B. however

C. whatever

D. whoever

30. Nowadays, it’s common for a child to some knowledge of the computer just by watching others working on it.

A. bring up

B. pick up

C. look up

D. set up

31. With WeChat becoming more and more popular in China, we seem the art of chatting face-to-face.

A. losing

B. to be lost

C. to be losing

D. having lost

32. It’s said that a clean is a soft pillow, with which we can have sweet dreams.

A. conscience

B. criterion

C. consciousness

D. commitment

33. During my first year at university, I was so busy studying and meeting new people that I did not write to my family as often as I .

A. could have

B. would have

C. might have

D. should have

34. An effective brainstorm makes it easier to your project quickly when you’re ready to pursue it further.

A. submit to

B. dive into

C. stick to

D. cater to

35 —I heard that some police didn’t allow suspects enough sleep to get so-called criminal evidence

in America.

—________? This certainly goes against the rule of law.

A. Who cares

B. Why bother

C. What for

D. How so

III．阅读理解(8分)

If I asked you to sit down and remember a list of phone numbers or a series of facts, how would you go about it? There’s a fair chance that you’d be doing it wrong.

One of the interesting things about the mind is that even though we all have one, we don’t have perfect insight (洞察力) into how to get the best from it. This is partly because of flaws (缺陷) in our ability to think about our own thinking. Studying this self-reflective thought process exposes human beings’ mental blind spots.

One area where these blind spots are particularly large is learning. We’re actually surprisingly bad at having insight into how we learn best.

Researchers Jeffrey Karpicke and Henry Roediger III made an experiment, where they asked college students to learn pairs of Swahili and English words. So, for example, they had to learn that if they were given the Swahili word “mashua” the correct response was “boat”. They could have used the sort of facts you might get on a high-school quiz, but the use of Swahili meant that there was little chance their participants could use any background knowledge to help them learn. After the pairs had all been learnt, there would be a final test a week later.

Now if many of us were revising this list we might study the list, test ourselves and then repeat this cycle, dropping items we got right. This makes studying and testing quicker and allows us to focus our effort on the things we haven’t yet learnt. It’s a plan that seems to make perfect sense, but it’s a plan that is disastrous if we really want to learn properly.

Karpicke and Roediger asked students to prepare for a test in various ways, and compared their success—for example, one group kept testing themselves on all items without dropping what they were getting right, while another group stopped testing themselves on their correct answers. On the final exam differences between the groups were dramatic. While dropping items from study didn’t have much of an effect, the people who dropped items from testing performed relatively poorly.

It seems the effective way to learn is to practice getting items back from memory, not trying to consolidate (巩固) them in there by further study. Moreover, dropping items entirely from your revision, which is the advice given by many study guides, is wrong. You can stop studying them if you’ve learnt them, but you should keep testing what you’ve learnt if you want to remember them at the time of the final exam.

So the evidence has a moral for teachers: there’s more to testing than finding out what stude nts know— tests can also help us remember.

36. According to the passage, we often fail to remember facts because ______.

A. we ignore our weakness in memorizing things

B. we don’t understand well what we are learning

C. we don’t know where our metal blind spots are

D. we take improper ways to memorize for good ones

37. The researchers’ experiment was intended to ______.

A. confirm we don’t know how to learn effectively

B. find out how we can consolidate our knowledge better

C. distinguish effects of memory in learning different languages

D. prove the importance of background knowledge in memorizing

38. What does the author believe leads to a good memory?

A. Constant measure of your knowledge.

B. Frequent revision of what you learn.

C. Firm abandonment of what you’re poor at.

D. Strong desire for grasping new knowledge.

39. The proper title for the passage is ______.

A. An experiment on memory

B. A concept of human memory

C. A way to improve your memory

D. A discovery of a mental blind spot

IV．任务型阅读(10分)

Attitude is a way that we think and feel about someone, or a way that we behave. We all have great potential and we all desire good results from our efforts. Each of us has the ability to put our unique human potential into action and to acquire a desired result. But the one thing that determines the level of our potential, and that predicts the quality of the result we receive is our attitude.

With a positive attitude we experience pleasant and happy feelings. This brings brightness to the eyes, more energy, and happiness. Our whole being broadcasts good will and happiness. We believe we will have a bright future. Even our health is affected in a beneficial way.

A negative attitude creates unhappy feelings, moods and behavior. When the mind is negative, poisons are released into the blood, which cause more unhappiness and negativity. This is the way to failure, frustration and disappointment.

People can affect our attitude by teaching us poor thinking habits or unintentionally misinforming us or providing us with negative sources of influence, but no one can control our attitude unless we voluntarily give in to that control. No one else “makes us angry.” We make ourselves angry when we give in to control of our attitude. What someone else may have done is irrelevant. We choose, not they. They merely put our attitude to a test. If we select a changeable attitude by becoming unfriendly, angry, jealous or suspicious, then we have failed the test. If we condemn ourselves by believing that we are unworthy, then again, we have failed the test.

If we care at all about ourselves, then we must accept full responsibility for our own feelings. We must learn to guard against those feelings that have the possibility to lead our attitude down the wrong path and to strengthen those feelings that can lead us confidently into a better future.

If we want to receive the rewards the future holds in trust for us, then we must exercise the most important choice given to us as members of the human race by maintaining (维持) full control over our attitude.

Having the right attitude is one of the basics that success requires. The combination of a sound personal philosophy and a positive attitude about ourselves and the world around us gives us an inner strength and a firm resolve (决心) that influences all the other areas of our existence.

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高三英语限时练习一 姓名得分 I. 完形填空（时间：10分钟） The term home schooling means educating children at home or in places other than a normal setting such as a public or private school. There are many reasons why parents choose home schooling for their children. Some parents are __21__ with the quality of education in the public schools. Others do not want their children to have to worry about “peer pressure”, or social pressure from friends. They say it may have a(n) __22__ effect on the child’s studies. These parents __23__ this type of pressure will lead to bad behavior such as smoking, drinking alcohol, and taking drugs. Bullying(欺负) from other students is another concern. Still other parents choose this type of __24__ for religious reasons. Whatever the __25__ may be, it is evident that more and more children are being taken out of normal schools every year. __26__, many questions have emerged, encouraging the debate over home schooling against public schooling. What then is the future of education? Will this new model of schooling replace normal schools? Will computers and the Internet __27__ our classrooms and teachers? As the debate continues, so do the questions about what home schoolers are studying at home. How can parents ensure that their children are prepared __28__ for college? How are home schoolers assessed to make sure they are getting the same educational standards that school students must have? Finally, there are questions regarding the children’s emotional development. Are they too __29__ their fellow students? Are they __30__ the opportunity to get the social benefits of being in a large classroom of students? As with any debatable issue, the answers to these questions are neither simple nor one-sided. 21. A. patient B. familiar C. pleased D. dissatisfied 22. A. active B. contrary C. important D. negative 23. A. care B. fear C. wish D. deny 24. A. activity B. education C. behavior D. belief 25. A. effects B. suggestions C. reasons D. pressures 26. A. As a result B. On the whole C. After all D. On the contrary 27. A. replace B. reserve C. represent D. release 28. A. gracefully B. emotionally C. academically D. financially 29. A. free from B. isolated from C. related to D. close to 30. A. providing B. making C. taking D. losing II. 语法填空（时间：10分钟） Carrying Faggots to Put Out a Fire In the last years of the Warring States period, the State of Qin attacked the State of Wei ____31_____ a large scale repeatedly and occupied large areas of land. In 273 B.B., the Qin army launched another attack upon the State of Wei. The king of the State of Wei summoned ____32_____officials, and asked with a ____33_____ (worry) look if anyone could propose a way to defeat the Qin army. Most of the officials persuaded the king to sue for peace, at the cost of giving away to the State of Qin the large area of land. However, Su Dai, a counsellor, did not agree. "Once there was a man ____34_____ house was on fire. People told him to put out the fire with water, but he would not listen. ____35_____, he carried a faggot to put out the fire, only to make the fire ____36_____ (fierce). That was ____37_____ he didn't know that, instead of putting out the fire, faggots could only make it burning more vigorously. Isn't it equal to ____38_____ (carry) faggots to put out a fire

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A Famous centenarians (百岁老人) still active in arts, science are in no mood to retire. "Those who stand still, die," is one of Oliveira's favorite phrases. He knows from experience what it means, as the Portuguese film director has reached the age of 102 and is still active in his profession. Every year, Oliveira shoots a film and is currently working on his next project. "You have to work, work, work in order to forget that death is not far away," he said. When asked about his age, Oliveira said with some humility: "It's down to mother nature. It gave to me what it took from others." Being both mentally and physically fit in old age is partly a matter of luck, but it also has something to do with character. Not every white-haired person is wise and social skills, openness and the ability to train the brain are essential for senior citizens. Along with the architect Oscar Niemeyer (103), Nobel laureate Montalcini (101) and director Kurt Maetzig (100), Oliveira is one of those people of whom it would be very wrong to think as members of a listless elderly generation. Another master in his profession is the architect Oscar Niemeyer. The 103-year-old Brazilian is best known for his futuristic-looking（未来派的）buildings in Brasilia, but he also speaks out on behalf of the poor. "The role of the architect is to struggle for a better world where we can develop a form of architecture that serves everyone and not just a privileged few," said Niemeyer recently. He spends almost every day working in his office in Copacabana, and even when he falls ill he keeps working on ideas: After a gallbladder (胆囊) operation he composed a samba tune (桑巴舞曲) in the clinic. Another man who could sing a song about age is 107-year-old Heesters. The Dutch-born opera singer spent most of his life performing in Germany, where he still works. Recently Heesters said: "I want to be at least 108-years-old." He also plans to keep performing. "Should I just sit at home and wait until they come and pick me up?" Heesters has not given up trying to add to his tally of awards and is looking for a "good stage role". Italian scientist Rita Levi-Montalcini, who is 101-year-old and is still active in medical science, has described the force that keeps driving her on: "Progress is created through imperfection." In 1986 she and her lab colleague were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work on nerve growth factor. She's convinced that humans grow on challenges.