2016届湖北荆州中学高三上第一次质检英语试卷（解析版）

The king was to pass by a beggar’s small poor house and the man was excited, not because he was about to see the king but because the king was known to part with expensive jewels and huge sums of money when moved by sympathy.

He saw the king’s carriage just when a kind man was filling his begging bowl with uncooked rice. Pushing the man aside, he ran into the street, shouting praises of the king and the royal family.

The carriage stopped and the king beckoned to the beggar.

“Who are you?” he asked. “One of the most unfortunate of your people,” said the beggar. “Poverty sits on my doorstep and follows me about like a dog. I haven’t eaten since yesterday afternoon!” “Have you nothing for your king except great sorrow?” said the ruler, putting out his hand. “Give me something.” The beggar, astonished, carefully picked up 5 grains of rice from his bowl and laid them on the king’s outstretched palm. The king drove away. The beggar’s disappointment was great. He complained and cursed the king again and again for his miserliness.

When he returned home in the evening he found a bag of rice on the floor. “Some generous soul has been here,” he thought and took out a handful of rice from the bag. To his astonishment, there was a small piece of gold in it. He realized then that the bag had been sent by the king. He emptied the rice on the floor, feeling sure there would be more gold pieces in it, and he was right. He found 5, one for each grain of rice he had given the king.

“It is not the king who has been miserly,” thought the man, sadly. “If I had been generous and given him the whole bowl of rice, I would have been a rich man today.”

1.From the passage, we know that the king___________.

A. was a kind man　　　　　　 B. was arrogant

C. was a miserly man　　　　 D. was very young

2.Why did the king ask the beggar for something according to the text?

A. Because he was poor than the beggar.

B. Because he wanted to make the beggar even poorer.

C. Because he had nothing to eat.

D. Because he wanted to give something to the beggar in return.

3.The real reason why the beggar got only five gold pieces is that________.

A. he complained and cursed the king again and again

B. the king was only generous to rich people

C. the king wanted to punish him severely

D. he himself was miserly

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A survey suggests that people who have dropped out from high school just earn an average of $9,000 less per year than graduates. Now a new study removes a common belief why they quit. It’s much more basic than flunking out(不及格).

Society tends to think of high school dropouts as kids who just can’t cut it. They are lazy, and perhaps not too bright. So researchers were surprised when they asked more than 450 kids who quit school about why they left.

“The vast majority actually had passing grades and they were confident that they could have graduated from high school.” John Bridgeland, the executive researcher said. About one million teens leave school each year. Only about half of African-American and Hispanic(美籍西班牙的)students will receive a diploma(证书), and actually all dropouts come to regret their decision. So, if failing grades don’t explain why these kids quit, what does? Again, John Bridgeland: “The most dependable finding was that they were bored.” “They found classes uninteresting; they weren’t inspired or motivated. They didn’t see any direct connection between what they were learning in the classroom to their own lives, or to their career aspirations.”

The study found that most teens who do drop out wait until they turn sixteen, which happens to be the age at which most states allow students to quit. In the U.S., only one state, New Mexico, has a law requiring teenagers to stay in high school until they graduate. Only four states: California, Tennessee, Texas and Utah, plus the District of Columbia, require school attendance until age 18, no exceptions. Jeffrey Grin, another researcher, says raising the compulsory attendance age may be one way to keep more kids in school.

“As these dropouts look back, they realize they’ve made a mistake. And anything that sort of gives these people an extra push to stick it out and see it through to the end, is probably helpful measure.”

New Hampshire may be the next state to raise its school attendance age to 18. But critics say that forcing the students unwilling to continue their studies to stay in school misses the point—the need for reform. It’s been called for to reinvent high school education to make it more challenging and relevant, and to ensure that kids who do stick it out receive a diploma that actually means something.

1.According to researchers’ study, most high school students drop out of school because____________.

A. they have failing grades

B. they are lazy and not intelligent

C. they are discriminated against

D. they take no interest in classes

2.According to the passage, which state has a law requiring school attendance until they graduate?

A. New Hampshire.

B. Utah.

C. New Mexico.

D. The District of Columbia.

3.In the last paragraph, the writer is trying to__________.

A. suggest raising the compulsory attendance age

B. analyze the reason why students quit school

C. raise awareness of reforming high school dropouts

D. wish to make laws to guarantee no dropouts

4.From the passage, we can infer the following EXCEPT that __________.

A. the grades of most dropouts at school were acceptable

B. dropouts’ salary is not as satisfying as graduates’

C. classes don’t appeal to dropouts

D. about 500,000 high school dropouts are black and Spanish

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Generally speaking, government regulations normally ban anything from smoking in public places to parking in certain zones. But officials in the Brazilian town of Biritiba Mirim, 70km (45miles) east of Sao Paulo, have gone far beyond that. They plan to prohibit residents from dying early because the local cemetery(墓地) has reached full capacity.

There’s no more room to bury the dead, they can’t be cremated(火化) and laws forbid a new cemetery. So the mayor has proposed a strange solution: outlaw death. Mayor Roberto Pereira says the bill is meant as a protest against federal regulations that prohibit new or expanded cemeteries in preservation areas. “They have not taken local demands into consideration”, he claims.

A 2003 decree(法令) by Brazil’s National Environment Council forbids burial grounds in protected areas. Mr. Pereira wants to build a new cemetery, but the project has been stopped because 98% of Biritiba Mirim is considered as a preservation area.

Biritiba Mirim, a town of 28,000 inhabitants, not only wants to prohibit residents from passing away. The bill also calls on people to take care of their health in order to avoid death. “I haven’t got a job, nor am I healthy. And now they say I can’t die. That’s ridiculous,” Amarido do Prado, an unemployed resident said.

The city council is expected to vote on the regulation next week. “Of course the bill is laughable, illegal, and will never be approved,” said Gilson Soares de Campos, an assistant of the mayor. “But can you think of a better resolution to persuade the government to change the environmental decree that is prohibiting us from building a new cemetery?” The bill states that “offenders will be held responsible for their acts.” However, it does not say what the punishment will be.

1.What is the bill to be proposed by the officials in Biritiba Mirim?

A. Ban on building a new cemetery.

B. Ban on parking in certain zones.

C. Forbidding buried grounds in preservation.

D. Prohibiting residents from dying early.

2.What can we infer from the phrase “have gone far beyond that” in the first paragraph?

A. The officials in Biritiba Mirim have made these regulations.

B. The officials in Biritiba Mirim have been to many places around the world.

C. The bill to be proposed by officials in Biritiba Mirim is much too unexpected.

D. The officials in Biritiba Mirim have built too many cemeteries in their town.

3.What’s the attitude of the mayor of Biritiba Mirim towards the federal regulations?

A. He remains silent about them.

B. He gives strong backing to them.

C. He objects to them.

D. He asks the residents for advice on them.

4.Which of the following is TRUE according to the text?

A. The mayor of the town wants to build a new cemetery against federal regulation.

B. The residents of the town sing high praise for the bill.

C. No better resolution of the problems has been thought out.

D. The government is going to change the environmental decree.

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We take it for granted that with memory we can remember most of things which happened in our life. But it is difficult to imagine what life would be like without memory. The meanings of thousands of everyday perceptions(感知), the basis for the decisions we make, and the roots of our habits and skills are to be found in our past experiences, which are brought into the present by memory.

Memory can be defined as the ability to keep information available for later use. It not only includes “remembering” things like arithmetic(算术) or historical facts, but also involves any change in the way an animal typically behaves. Memory is involved when a rat gives up eating grain because he has sniffed something suspicious in the grain pile.

Memory exists not only in humans and animals but also in some physical objects and machines. Computers, for example, contain devices for storing data for later use. It is interesting to compare the memory storage capacity(容量) of a computer with that of a human being. The instant access memory of a large computer may hold up to 100,000 “words”—strings of alphabetic or numerical characters—ready for instant use. An average U.S. teenager probably recognizes the meaning of about 1000,000 words of English. However, this is but a part of the total amount of information that the teenager has stored. Consider, for example, the number of faces and places that the teenager can recognize on sight.

The use of words is the basis of the advanced problem solving intelligence of human beings. A large part of a person’s memory is in terms of words and combinations of words. But while language greatly expands the number and the kind of things a person can remember, it also requires a huge memory capacity. It may well be this capacity that distinguishes humans, setting them apart from other animals.

1.Which of the following is true about memory?

A. It helps us perceive things happening around us every day.

B. It is based on the decisions we made in the past.

C. It is rooted in our past habits and skills.

D. It connects our past experiences with the present.

2.According to the passage, memory is helpful in one’s life in the following aspects EXCEPT that________________.

A. it involves a change in one’s behavior

B. it keeps information for later use

C. it warns people not to do things repeatedly

D. it enables one to remember events that happened in the past

3.What is the major characteristic of man’s memory capacity according to the author?

A. It can be expanded by language.

B. It can remember all the combined words.

C. It may keep all the information in the past.

D. It may change what has been stored in it.

4.Human beings make themselves different from other animals by________.

A. having the ability to perceive danger

B. having a far greater memory capacity

C. having the ability to recognize faces and places on sight

D. having the ability to draw on past experiences

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根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项是多余的选项。

Have you ever found it difficult to understand a text or express your own idea? In fact, someone who always comes across these kinds of problems may have learning disabilities. Today we begin a series of programs about learning disabilities. These are disorders in the ways that people understand or use language. They can affect the ability to listen or think, or to speak or to read and write. They can also affect the ability to do mathematics. ____1.______Researchers believe that learning disabilities are caused by differences in the way that the brain works with information. They say children with learning disabilities are unintelligent or do not want to work. _2.___

Researchers say that as many as one of every five people in the United States has some kind of learning disability. Almost three-million children in the United States receive some kind of help in school for a learning disability.

____3._____Experts look for a difference between how well a child does in school and the level of intelligence or ability of the child. But there is no one sign of a disorder. A few signs of learning disability include not connecting letters with their sounds or not understanding what is read. A person with a learning disability may not be able to understand a funny story. They may not follow directions. They may not read numbers correctly or know how to start a task.

____4._____One person may have trouble understanding mathematics. Another may have difficulty understanding what people are saying. Still another may not be able to express ideas in writing. These different kinds of learning disabilities are known by different names. For example, a person who has difficulty reading may have dyslexia(诵读困难症)。

Experts say learning disabilities cannot be cured. __5._____Teachers and parents can help young people with learning disabilities to learn successfully.

A. Different people have different kinds of learning disabilities.

B. Their brains just process information differently than other people.

C. People with learning disabilities have difficulty in communicating with others.

D. But people who have them can be helped.

E. However, practice can really make perfect.

F. A person with a learning disability has unusual difficulty in developing these skills.

G. How can you tell if someone has a learning disability?

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I wrote my first poem at the age of seven and showed it to my mother．She read and cried, “Buddy, you really wrote a beautiful poem!”

Shyly but　　　 , I said yes．She poured out her　　 . “It was nothing short of talent!”

“What time will Father be home?” I asked．I could hardly wait to　　 my work to him．I spent quite some time　　　　 for his arrival. I wrote the poem out in my finest handwriting, drew a fancy border around it and　　 I placed it right on my father’s plate on the dining table. My father had begun his motion-picture career as a writer. I was sure he would be able to　　　 my poem.

At almost 7 o’clock my father burst in. He seemed　　　 . He circled the dining-room table, complaining about his employees.

Suddenly he paused and glared at his plate. “What is this?” He was reaching for my poem.

“Ben, Buddy has written his first poem!” my mother began. “And it’s beautiful, absolutely amaz…”

“If you don’t mind, I’d like to decide for myself.” Father said.

I　　　 my head as he read that poem. It was only ten lines. But it seemed to take hours. Then I heard him dropping the poem back on the table. Now came the moment of　　 .

“I think it’s terrible,” he said.

I couldn’t look up. My eyes were getting　　 .

“Ben, these are the first lines of poetry he’s ever written,” my mother was saying. “He needs　　　 .”

“I don’t know why.” My father held his ground. “Isn’t there enough awful poetry in the world already?”

I couldn’t　　　 it another second. I ran from the dining room crying. Up in my room I　　　　 myself on the bed and cried the worst of the　　　 out of me.

That may have been the end of the story, but not of its　　 for me. I realized how fortunate I had been. I had a mother who said, “I think it’s wonderful!” and a father who drove me to hear with “I think it’s　　　　 .”

Every one of us needs that mother force, from which all　　 flows; and yet the mother force alone is incomplete. It needs the balance of the force that 　　 , “Watch. Listen. Review. Improve.”

Those　　　 voices of my childhood ring in my ears through the years, like two opposing winds blowing me. Between the two poles of 　 　　 and doubt, both in the name of love, I try to follow my true course．

1.A. typically　 　 B. proudly 　　 C. anxiously 　 D. honestly

2.A. motivation　 B. shock　　　　　 C. Criticism 　　 D. praise

3.A. recite　　 　 B. describe 　　 C. show　 　　　　 D. introduce

4.A.waiting　　 　　 B. preparing　 　 C. Praying 　　 D. planning

5.A. gradually　　 B. desperately　 C. confidently　 D. casually

6.A. appreciate　 B. revise　 　　 C. read　　 　　　　 D. polish

7.A. relaxed　 　 B. calm　 　　　 C. noble　　　　 D. upset

8.A. shook　　 　　 B. lowered 　　 C. raised　　　 　 D. turned

9.A. decision　　 B. excitement　 C. meditation　　 D. devotion

10.A. dark　　 　　 B. wide　　 　　　　 C. wet　　 　　　　 D. bright

11.A. arrangement　 B. judgment　　 C. encouragement D. adjustment

12.A. hold　　 　　 B. attain　　　　 C. control　　　　 D. stand

13.A. threw　　　　 B. seated　　　　 C. left　　　　　　 D. kept

14.A. confusion　 B. pressure　　 　 C. disappointment D. tiredness

15.A. challenge　 B. development　 C. difficulty　　 D. significance

16.A. elegant　 　 B. awful　　　　 C. fluent　　　　　 D. controversial

17.A. failure　 　 B. creation　　　 C. limit　　　　　　 D. improvement

18.A. orders　　 B. misleads　　 C. cautions　　　　 D. foresees

19.A. inspiring　　 B. warning　　　 C. disturbing　　 　 D. conflicting

20.A. confirmation　　 B. restriction　　 C. distrust　 D. Disapproval

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阅读下面材料, 在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词) 或括号内单词的正确形式。

The woman often called the First Lady of New York died on August. Brooke Astor was one hundred and five years old. The extremely wealthy and famous New Yorker spent much of her life_1.__ (help) the needy in her beloved city.

She was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She was the only child of a high level military officer. After two earlier_2.__(marry)，she married Vincent Astor in 1953 again. He came from a family__3.__had been rich for least one hundred years. Among other things, he owed many buildings in New York City. Brooke Astor became one of the_4.__(rich) women in the world when Vincent Astor died. She also became head of a huge charity organization_5.__ (found) by her husband. He repeatedly had told her she would have fun giving_6.__his money. And apparently she did. Miss Astor gave tens of millions of dollars__7._ (main) to places and people in New York City. She said it was the sensible choice because that was_8.__the money had been made. She gave financial support to the city's cultural centers, the poor and disabled as_9.__as to many other smaller charities. When she died, the mayor of New York said the city would not be what it is today__10.__her support.

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短文改错(共10小题; 每小题1分, 满分10分)

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文, 请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处错误, 每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加: 在缺词处加一个漏字符号（）, 并在其下面写出改加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在改词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：

1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

My mother is a teacher work in a key high school. She is too busy that she often has to get up early and stay up late. In addition to this, she hardly has any times to take exercise. She has been on poor health for some time. My father and I are worried that she may fall ill if she works too hard. These days I’m thinking why to develop my mother’s interest in playing sports. Considered that today is Mother’s Day, I decided buy a pair of jogging shoes for her. I secret put them on the desk in her study. When my mother entered into her study this evening, she looked surprised, but she immediately realized my intention. She promises that she would go jogging every evening.

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假定你是中学生李华。高三将是辛苦忙碌的一年，不管自己还是父母都会很辛苦。每个家长都是望子成龙的，处在这一重要的学习阶段，父母会对你的生活学习倍加关心。现在请你按照以下内容要点给自己的父母写一封感谢信。

内容要点：

1. 感谢父母这么多年来无微不至的关心；

2. 近段时间自己的学习情况及取得的进步，自己会继续努力，希望父母放心；

3. 高三过后一定多帮父母做家务。

注意：

1. 词数100左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯;

3. 开头和结尾已给出。

Dear parents,

_____________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

Love from,

Your son

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