1、广东省汕头市潮南实验学校届高三上学期期中考试英语试题 Word版含答案潮南实验学校高中部20162017 学年第一学期期中考试高三英语试题(总分：120分; 考试用时: 120分钟) 命题 审题：高三英语备课组第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节 （共15小题：每小题2分，满分30分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。A Suddenly another thought went through Kates mind like an electric shock. An express train was due to g
2、o past about thirty minutes later. If it were not stopped, that long train, full of passengers, would fall into the stream. “Someone must go to the station and warn the station-master,” Kate thought. But who was to go? She would have to go herself. There was no one else. In wind and rain she started
3、 on her difficult way. Soon she was at the bridge that crossed the Des Moines River, a bridge also built of wood, just like the bridge across Honey Creek. The storm had not washed this away, but there was no footpath across it. She would have to cross it by stepping from sleeper (枕木) to sleeper. Wit
4、h great care she began the dangerous crossing, sometimes on her hands and knees, hardly daring to look down between the sleepers into the wild flood waters below. If she should slip, she would fall between the sleepers, into the rapidly flowing stream. At last - she never knew how long it had taken
5、her - she felt solid ground under her feet. But there was no time to rest. She still had to run more than half a mile and had only a few minutes left. Unless she reached the station before the express did, many, many lives would be lost. She did reach the station just as the train came into sight. F
6、ortunately the station-master was standing outside. “The bridge is down! Stop the train! Oh, please stop it!” Kate shouted breathlessly. The station-master went pale. He rushed into the station building and came back with a signal light. He waved the red light as the train came into the station. It
7、was not a second too early.1. What did Kate decide to do?A. Stop the express train. B. Check the signal light.C. Meet the passengers. D. Visit the station-master.2. Which of the following words best describes Kates journey?A. Fruitless. B. Boring. C. Well-planned. D. Risky.3. Why did the station-mas
8、ter turn pale?A. He suddenly fell ill. B. He realized the danger.C. He discovered his mistake. D. He became over-excited. B The Crowne Plaza Hotel in Copenhagen is offering a free meal to any guest who is able to produce electricity for the hotel on an exercise bike linked to a generator (发电机). The
9、idea is to get people fit and reduce their carbon footprint. Guests will have to produce at least 10 watt hours of electricityroughly 15 minutes of cycling for someone of average fitness. Guests staying at Plaza Hotel will be given meal tickets worth $36 once they have produced 10 watt hours of elec
10、tricity. The bicycles will have smart phones attached to the handlebars measuring how much power is being generated for the hotel. The plan, a world-first, will start on 19 April and run for a year. Only guests staying at the hotel will be able to take part. Frederikke Toemmergaard, hotel spokeswoma
11、n, said, “Many of our visitors are business people who enjoy going to the gym. There might be people who will cycle just to get a free meal, but generally I dont think people will take advantage of our programme.” Copenhagen has a long-standing cycling tradition and 36% of locals cycle to work each
12、day, one of the highest percentages in the world, according to the website visitcopenhagen.dk. US environmental website recently voted Copenhagen the worlds best city for cyclists. “Because Copenhagen is strongly connected with cycling, we felt the bicycle would work well as a symbol of the hotels g
13、reen profile (形象).If successful, the electric bicycle meal programme will be spread to all Crowne Plaza hotels in the UK, the hotel said in a statement.4. What is the main purpose of the free meal programme?A. To promote the hotels green concept.B. To make the city known to the world.C. To attract p
14、eople to the hotel restaurant.D. To get guests to stay longer at the hotel.5. How can a participant get a free meal?A. By becoming a professional cyclist. B. By cycling to produce some electricity.C. By linking a smart phone to a bicycle. D. By monitoring his or her carbon footprint.6. Who are most
15、likely to enter for the programme?A. The poor local people. B. The environment activists.C. Health-conscious hotel guests. D. Visitors fond of Copenhagen food.7. According to paragraph 3, Copenhagen has one of the worlds .A. best chain hotels B. greenest natural environmentsC. longest bike paths D.
16、highest rates of people cycling to workC Deep in the wilderness of northern Kenya, two boys found a pair of crying cheetah cubs (猎豹幼崽). The cubs mother had been killed by a lion. The cheetahs were only a few weeks old. In the wild, about 9 out of 10 cheetah cubs die before they are three months old.
17、 They are food for lions. But these cubs were so lucky that they were saved by their heroes, who brought them to Jane and Ian Craig. The Craigs help save endangered animals at the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy. The Craigs nursed the cheetah cubs back to health feeding them with bottles, sleeping with th
18、em, and comforting them. They named the cubs Sambu and Toki. But what would become of these cubs? How would they survive on their own? In the wild, cubs stay with their mothers until they are almost 2 years old. During that time, cheetah mothers teach their young how to hunt and how to protect thems
19、elves. The Craigs wouldnt be able to find a cheetah mother to teach the cubs. So they turned to a man named Simon King. King has spent more than twenty years studying cheetahs. He gave them a nod of approval when hearing about this, though taking care of two baby cubs would take a huge amount of tim
20、e. For two years, he would need to have them at his side most of the time. But he felt there was no other choice. And so, when the brothers were one month old, King became their father. The brothers followed King everywhere. If they saw large dangerous and fierce mammals, King would growl at the cub
21、s the way a mother cheetah would have, which was a signal for the cubs to stay away. They learned quickly. King taught the cheetahs to hunt using a toy rabbit as King pulled it around on a rope. With more lessons and training, the brothers began to hunt on their own. King is one proud father now. 8.
22、 What do we know about the two cheetah cubs? A.They like the Craigs very much. B. Their lives were in danger in the wild. C. Their mother was killed by humans. D. They were not afraid of lions.9. What worried the Craigs? A. There was no cheetah mother to teach the cubs. B. The cubs were dangerous. C
23、. They had no time to take care of the cubs. D. There was no living place for the cubs.10. The cheetah brothers learnt hunting skills from _. A. Simon King B. the boys C. the Craigs D. their mother11. In which part of a magazine would we expect to find this text? A. History B. Science C. News report
24、 D. Nature D Adults are happy to tell their children that crusts (面包皮) will give them curly hair, carrots will help them see in the dark, and spinach will make them strong. Even though adults know its not totally true, they think its good for their childrens health, a study had found. In a study abo
25、ut 31 per cent of adults said they once told their children the curly hair tale, and 36 per cent said theyd been told the same thing by their mother or father. Among the over-50s, almost half said theyd been promised curly hair if they ate their crusts. A quarter of the 2,000 adults questioned in th
26、e study told their children carrots would help them see in the dark. This could be true to some extent because of the high levels of vitamin A and beta-carotene in root vegetables. Another favorite among parents is that milk will make one strong. A third surveyed said their parents told them this, a
27、nd about 29 per cent said they told their children the same thing. But while there is plenty of evidence to suggest milk is good for peoples health, there are also a lot of scientific papers saying it isnt. Thanks to Popeye, spinach is also fed to children, along with the idea that it will make them
28、 strong. While there is also some truth in this one, scientists now believe it is not the iron, but the inorganic nitrates (无机硝酸盐) that improve physical power. One in seven of the surveyed admitted telling their little ones that runner beans will make them run faster, which is nothing more than word
29、play and has no basis in science. Almost one in five adults were subjected to the same tale in childhood. Just over one in 10 parents told their children green food would turn them into a superhero, and a quarter admitted hiding vegetables in meals. Lyndsay Jones, spokesman for Persil Washing Up Liq
30、uid, said, Its clear that the most persuasive stories about food are passed on from generation to generation. Our research shows that the ideas continue, and we tell our kids the same things our parents told us, even if theyre not always entirely true.Crusts may not make your hair curly, but theres
31、plenty of research that says crusts contain more of the goodness than the rest of a loaf. Hopefully, as a result of our Cook with Kids promise, more parents will be encouraged to spend time with their children in the kitchen and teach them the truth about food.12. We can know from Paragraph 3 that _
32、. A. a third people are forced to drink milk by their parents B. milk is beneficial to childrens physical strength C. there is doubt whether milk is helpful to peoples health D. about 29 percent people wish their children good health13. Which of the following does Lyndsay Jones agree? A. Adults are willing to teach their children as their parents did. B. Most persuasive stories about food a
