1、K12教育学习资料届高三英语上学期第一次月考试题3黑龙江省大庆实验中学2019届高三英语上学期第一次月考试题说明：答题时间100分钟，总分120分。第一部分：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）AThe Origins of Famous Brands Our lives are full of brand names and trademarked products that we use every day. Although many brand names are simple acronyms (首字母缩略词) or versions of th
2、eir founders names, some of the companies we trust every day actually have fascinating and surprising back stories.Starbucks It seems fitting that the most famous coffee brand in the world would take its name from one of the worlds greatest works of literature. The inspiration for the name of the co
3、ffeehouse came from Herman Melvilles Moby Dick. The founders original idea was to name the company after the Captain Ahabs ship, but they eventually decided that Pequot wasnt a great name for coffee, so they chose Ahabs first mate, Starbucks, as the name instead. Google Google was originally called
4、Backrub, for it searched for links in every corner of the Web. In 1997, when the founders of the company were searching for a new name showing a huge amount of data for their rapidly improving search technology, a friend suggested the word “googol”. When a friend tried to register the new domain (域)
5、 name, he misspelled “googol” as “google”.Nike Originally founded as a distributor for Japanese running shoes, the company was originally named BRS, or Blue Ribbon Sports. In 1971, BRS introduced its own soccer shoe, a model called Nike, which is also the name for the Greek goddess of victory. In 19
6、78, the company officially renamed itself as Nike, Inc.The right name is essential to a companys success, and a great origin story is just as important as a great product. An attractive origin story is one more thing that keeps customers guessing, wondering, and buying its products.1. What is the na
7、me of the Captain Ahabs ship? A. Moby Dick B. Starbucks C. Pequot D. Herman Melville 2. Why did the founders of the Google want to change its name? A. They mistook their name. B. They wanted new customers. C. The companys original name was too long. D. The companys search technology was improving ra
8、pidly.3. Where does the importance of the origin story of one company lie in? A. It can change the companys image. B. It can add myth to the company. C. It explains the development of the company to customers.D. It makes customers imagine and purchase its goods. BI can still remember it as if it hap
9、pened yesterday. I was a college freshman and had stayed up most of the night before laughing and talking with friends. Now just before my first class of the day my eyelids (眼皮) were feeling heavier and heavier and my head was drifting down to my desk to make my textbook a pillow. A few minutes nap
10、time before class couldnt hurt, I thought. Boom! I lifted my head immediately and my eyes opened wider than saucers. I looked around with my heart beating quickly trying to find the cause of the noise. My young professor was looking back at me with a mischievous, boyish smile on his face. He had int
11、entionally dropped the pile of textbooks he was carrying onto the desk. “Good morning!” he said, still smiling. “Im glad to see everyone is awake. Now lets get started.” For the next hour I wasnt sleepy at all. It wasnt from the shock of my professors textbook alarm clock either. Instead, it was fro
12、m the attractive discussion he led. With knowledge and good humor, he made the material come alive. His lecturing was full of both wisdom and kindness. And the enthusiasm and joy that he taught with were contagious (有感染力的). I left the classroom not only wide awake, but a little smarter and a little
13、better as well.I learned something far more important than not sleeping in class that day too. What Ive learned is that if you are going to do something in this life, do it well, do it with joy, and make it an expression of your love. What a glorious place this world would be if all of us did our jo
14、b joyously and well! What a beautiful world we could create if every doctor, teacher, musician, cook, waitress, poet, miner, farmer, and laborer made their work an expression of their love! Dont sleepwalk your way through life then. Wake up! Let your love fill your work and your soul. Life is too sh
15、ort to live it badly. 4. What did the author want to do just before his first class of the day?A. Talk with his friends. B. Take a short sleep. C. Get his eyes examined. D. Stay away from the class. 5. The underlined word “mischievous” in Paragraph 2 probably means “ ”. A naughty B. serious C. sensi
16、tive D. dishonest 6. What else did the author learn that day? A. Students should not sleep in class but respect their teachers。 B. Everyone should love his job and sleepwalk his way through life. C. Life is too limited to make your work an expression of your love. D. People from all walks of life sh
17、ould do their job with wisdom and love. 7. What can be inferred from this passage? A. The professor often kept his students sharp by using a textbook alarm. B. The author was attracted by the professors great wisdom and enthusiasm. C. The author left the two-hour period not only wide awake, but a li
18、ttle smarter. D. Though the author was frightened awake, he was not clear-headed in the class. CIt is a familiar scene these days: employees taking newly laid-off co-workers out for a drink for comfort. But which side deserves sympathy more, the jobless or the still employed? On March 6, researchers
19、 at a conference at the University of Cambridge suggested it was the latter. Brendan Burchell, a Cambridge sociologist, presented his analysis based on various surveys conducted across Europe. The data suggest that employed people who feel insecure in their jobs show similar levels of anxiety and de
20、pression as those who are unemployed. Although a newly jobless persons mental health may “bottom out” after about six months, and then may even begin to improve, the mental state of people who are continuously worried about losing their own job “just continues to get worse and worse”, Burchell says.
21、 Psychologists support this theory by arguing that human beings feel more stressed during times of insecurity because they sense an immediate but invisible threat. Patients have been known to experience higher levels of anxiety, for example, while waiting for examination results than knowing what th
22、ey are suffering fromeven if the results are cancer. Its better to get the bad news and start doing something about it rather than wait with anxiety. When the uncertainty continues, people stay in a nonstop “fight or flight” response, which leads to damaging stress. But not every employee in insecur
23、e industries has such a discouraging view, Burchell says. In general, women get on better. While reporting higher levels of anxiety than men when directly questioned, women score lower in stress on the GHQ 12, even when they have a job they feel insecure about losing. As Burchell explains, “For wome
24、n, most studies show that any jobit doesnt matter whether it is secure or insecuregives psychological improvement over unemployment.” He supposes that the difference in men is that they tend to feel pressure not only to be employed, but also to be the primary breadwinners, and that more of a mans se
25、lf-worth depends on his job. 8. Why do researchers think the still employed deserve sympathy more? A. They have to do more work since then. B. They have no chance to find better jobs. C. They have to work with inexperienced workers. D. They constantly worry about losing their jobs. 9. What is most l
26、ikely to cause a “fight or flight” response? A. Not having a paid job. B. Fierce competition for jobs. C. Not knowing what will happen. D. Pressure to work longer hours. 10. What will the writer talk about following the last paragraph? A. Advice on preparing for a job interview. B. Advice on handlin
27、g pressure from insecure industries.C. Some knowledge of psychology. D. Difference in men and women. 11. What is the topic focused on by the author of the passage? A. Is it less stressful to get laid off than stay on? B. Should greater sympathy be given to the jobless? C. Do employees bear more stre
28、ss than ever before? D. Do men or women show higher levels of anxiety? DEvery human being, no matter what he is doing, gives off body heat. The usual problem is how to get rid of it. But the designers of the Johnstown campus (校园) of the University of Pitsburgh (commonly referred to as Pitt) set them
29、selves the opposite problemhow to collect body heat. They have designed a collection system which uses not only body heat, but the heat given off by such objects as light bulbs and refrigerators as well. The system works so well that no fuel is needed to make the campuss six buildings comfortable. S
30、ome parts of most modern buildingstheaters and offices as well as classrooms, are more sufficiently heated by people and lights and sometimes must be air-conditioned even in winter. The technique of saving heat and redistributing (重新分配) is called “heat recovery”. A few modern buildings recover heat,
31、 but the campuss system is the first to recover heat from buildings and reuse it in others. Along the way, Pitt has learned a great deal about some of its producers. The harder a student studies, the more heat his body gives off. Male students send out more heat than female students, and the larger
32、a student is, the more heat he produces. We may conclude that the hottest prospect for the Johnstown campus would be a hard-working overweight male genius. 12. The heat in the heating system of the Johnstown campus is supplied . A. by human bodies B. by both human bodies and other heat-giving objectsC. by both human bodies and commonly-used fuelsD. by human bodies, commonly-used fuels and other heat-giving objects13. According to the pas
