第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分,满分40分）Big things were h...

第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分,满分40分）

Big things were happening in my life the summer I turned 13. In the middle of that summer, my parents shook my entire world and turned it upside down when they told me they were getting a divorce. I couldn't believe that our family was going to break up. Though I always knew my parents weren't very happy and they often fought, I still wanted my family to stay the same.

My life changed completely after the divorce.My mother and I moved into a small apartment across town,while my father and brother,Bill, stayed in our house.I now became a visitor whenever I went to see my dad and Bill on the weekends. And immediately I had my soon-to-be stepfather,Dan,whom I showed no interest in.I was clearly depressed, especially after Dan and my mother married and I realized that there was no way that things could change back to the way they had been.

Even though I resisted all Dan's attempts to get to know me and wasn't very nice to him, he never gave up on me. Gradually, I began to trust him. I realized that we actually had some things in common, especially when it came to movies and TV shows. We spent a lot of time together hanging out watching TV. That gave us a chance to talk and get to know each other.

Better still, Dan showed an interest in me that I had never experienced from my own father. Dan was always around when I needed advice on school or friends. Once I began to warm up to Dan, the three of us began spending a lot of time together. We often went out to eat and took short trips. Eventually, I discovered that I finally had the happy family that I had always wanted.

I now realize my parents were right about getting the divorce. Their breakup was the best thing to happen for all of us. My father also found happiness－ he remarried and had another child, my half-sister, Michelle. 　　

At 13, I learned an important truth－change is not always the worst thing that can happen. Sometimes, it is just what we need the most.

61.According to the passage, which of the following statements is WRONG?

A.Their parents didn't love each other any longer.       B.The writer didn't want his parents to divorce.

C.Their parents' divorce hurt the writer much.     D.The writer was in low spirits all the time.

62.The writer and Dan have the same interests EXCEPT______.

A.seeing movies     B.surfing the internet     C.having talks D.watching TV

63.What does the author think of his stepfather?

A.Trustful.     B.Interesting.  C.Helpful.      D.Boring.

64.Which of the following is the best title for this passage?

A.Divorce Is Not Always the Worst.     B.A Devoted Stepfather.

C.There Is a Change in My Life.   D.A True Story.

高三英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析

短文改错 (共10分,每小题1分,满分10分)

One day I happened to find a chatting room in                  1——

my QQ，there people were chatting in English．I tried            2——

to chat with some of them．T0 my surprised，I found              3——

the oral English of some junior students were better                4——

than me．I asked them for advice and they told me                5——

to practise more on QQ. But every day after that I                 6——

would spend one hour practise my oral English on QQ．           7——

Day by day I learned from many useful words and               8——

expressions．With time went by．I found that I could             9——

even communicate some college students freely．               10_____

高三英语短文改错中等难度题查看答案及解析

What if I took that big jump on my bike?What’s the worst thing that could happen if I go out at midnight?Should try smoking?The teen years can play out like a choose-your-own-adventure novel.

Teenagers must act on an endless parade of choices.Some choices.including smoking.Come with serious consequences.As a result, adolescents often find themselves trapped between their impulsive tendencies（-Just try it!)and their newfound ability to make well-informed and logical choices（-Wait, maybe that’s not such a good idea!）.

So what makes the teenager’s brain so complex? What drives adolescents-more than any other age group-to sometimes make rash or questionable decisions?

If you have ever thought that the choices teenagers make are all about exploring and pushing limits, you are on to something. Experts Experts believe that this tendency marks a necessary period in teen development.The process helps prepare teenagers to confront the world on their own. It is something all humans have evolved to experience-yes, teens everywhere go through this exploratory period.Nor is it unique to people:Even laboratory mice experience a similar stage during their development.

For example，laboratory experiments show that young mice stay close by their mothers for safety. As mice grow．their behavior does too．“When they reach puberty，they’re like，‘I’m gonna start checking out how this environment looks without my mom，…explains Beatriz Luna,of the University of Pittsburgh．

As a developmental cognitive neuroscientist，Luna studies those changes that occur in the brain as children develop into adults．She and other researchers are showing how the teen experience can lead to powerful advantages later in life．Take mice again：Young mice that explore most tend to live longest——that is，unless a cat eats them，Luna adds．

1.What is the best title for the text?

A．Teenagers make endless choices

B．The teenage brain drives them to be different

C．How the teenage brain develops

D．Researches about the teenagers

2.What does the underlined sentence in paragraph 4 mean?

A．It means “you are wrong”.

B．It means“you lose your way”．

C．It means“you get the point”．

D．It means“you are off the point”.

3.According to the text,the teenager who explores most wiIl

A．make no mistakes in his life．

B．have advantages over others.

C．loSe his confidence even his life.

D．experience no failure and live Iongest.

4.What does the writer want to tell us by taking mice for example？

A．young mice try to look for safety.

B．Young mice like to stay with their mothers.

C．Mice also experience a period to explore the world.

D．Mice experience different stages.

5.What may the text discuss in the next part?

A．How call a teenager make right choices

B．Why the parents shouldn’t allow teenagers to smoke

C．What has been discovered in the lab experiment．

D．What really goes on in the teenage brain.

高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

语法填空。

Strange things were happening in the country of northeast Hebei.The water in the village wells rose and 1. (fall) for three days.A 2. (smell) gas came out of the cracks.The chickens and the pigs were 3. nervous to eat.Mice ran out of the fields.Fish jumped out of bowls and ponds.In the city, some water pipes cracked and burst. 4. one million people of the city, who thought little of these events, were asleep as usual that night.After about half an hour, everything began to shake.

5. seemed as if the world was at 6. end.In the fifteen seconds a large city lay 7. ruins.The number of people who were killed or injured reached more than 400,000.People began to wonder how long the disaster would last.All hope was not lost.150,000 soldiers 8._ (send) by the army to help the rescue workers.Hundreds of thousands of people were helped.The army organized teams to dig out those who were trapped and 9. (bury) the dead.Workers built shelters for survivors 10. homes had been destroyed.Fresh water was taken to the city by train, truck and plane.Slowly, the city began to breathe again.

高三英语语法填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

On Wednesday, two things happened. In Syria, 80 people were killed by government airstrikes. Meanwhile, in Florida, Elon Musk’s SpaceX successfully launched and fired a sports car into space. Guess which story has dominated mainstream news sites?

The launch of Musk’s Falcon Heavy rocket, the most powerful ever launched by a private company, went off successfully. Musk sent his cherry-red Tesla roadster running toward Mars, launching “a new space age”. The event attracted phenomenal publicity and made the rocket launch a masterstroke of advertising for Tesla.

Meanwhile, in Syria, where hundreds of thousands of refugees may be forced to return to unsafe homes, a UN human rights coordinator for Syria said despondently(沮丧地) that he was no longer sure why he bothers to videotape the effects of bombing, since nobody ever pays attention. He wondered what level of violence it would take to make the world care.

There is, perhaps, no better way to appreciate the tragedy of 21st-century global inequality than by watching a billionaire spend $90m launching a $100,000 car into space.

Musk said he wanted to participate in a space race because “races are exciting” and that while strapping his car to a rocket may be “silly and fun … silly and fun things are important”. Thus, anyone who mentions the huge waste the project involves, or the various social uses to which these resources could be put, can be dismissed as a killjoy.

But one doesn’t have to hate fun to question the justification for pursuing a costly new space race at exactly this moment. If we examine the situation honestly, it becomes hard to defend a project like this.

A mission to Mars does indeed sound exciting, but it’s important to have our priorities straight. First, perhaps we could make it so that a child no longer dies of malaria every two minutes. Or we could try to address the level of poverty in Alabama which has become so extreme that the UN investigator did not believe it could occur in a first-world country. Perhaps when violence, poverty and disease are solved, then we can head for the stars.

Many might think that what Elon Musk chooses to do with his billions is Elon　 Musk’s business alone. If he wanted to spend all his money on medicine for children, that would be nice, but if he’d like to spend it making big explosions and sending his convertible on a million-mile space voyage, that’s his right.

But Musk is only rich enough to afford these money-consuming projects because we have allowed social inequalities to arise in the first place. If wealth were actually distributed fairly in this country, nobody would be in a position to fund his own private space program.

Elon Musk is right: silly and fun things are important. But some of them are an indefensible waste of resources. While there are still humanitarian crises such as that in Syria, nobody can justify vast spending on rocketry experiments.

1.Why does the writer mention the two pieces of news at the beginning of the passage?

A.To highlight the significance of SpaceX’s successful launch of a rocket and a car into space.

B.To illustrate the inequality of wealth distribution and the consequent inequality of attention distribution.

C.To appeal to the government for more attention to the air strikes and refugee crisis in Syria.

D.To find out which news dominated the mainstream news sites.

2.Why did the UN human rights coordinator for Syria feel disappointed?

A.Because nobody appreciated his work and all the efforts he made.

B.Because the violence in Syria is not serious enough to make the world care.

C.Because however hard he tried, nobody seemed to care about the situation in Syria.

D.Because he had great difficulty videotaping the effects of bombing.

3.What is implied in paragraph in 6 and 7?

A.The space project of SpaceX cost the government too much money.

B.Addressing problems of violence, poverty and diseases should be our top priority.

C.Space programs are a waste of money that cannot be justified.

D.It kills the fun to question the justification of the pursuit of space programs.

4.What does the writer mainly want to tell us?

A.We should pay equal attention to space projects and solving social problems.

B.No private companies should be allowed to spend money in rocketry experiments.

C.The successful launch of SpaceX has distracted the world from more important things.

D.The money and resources used in space projects could have been used to deal with various social problems.

高三英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析

Some day I happened to find a chatting room in my QQ, there people were chatting in English. I tried to chat with some of them. To my surprised, I found the oral English of some junior students were better than me. I asked them for advice and they told me to practise more on QQ. But every day after that I would spend one hour practise my oral English on QQ. Day by day I learned from many useful words and expressions. With time went by, I found that I could even communicate some college students freely.

高三英语短文改错中等难度题查看答案及解析

A funny story happened last week in Brazil. After delivering a program there my wife and I were catching the plane back to our home in Portugal. We entered the_______. passed security and reached the boarding zone... and then discovered that flight had been_______.

I_______　 the airline and they told us that the only flight back would be today, four days after the _______flight. I felt my stomach tightening, my hands sweating, and my thoughts _______about our cats, all the professional commitments I had already _______ in Portugal, etc.

I decided to take a___________ and as we were speaking with a security officer to get more _______, I decided, instead of _______, to act with__________ and to ask about his____________.

The security officer's name was Raul, he wasn't__________ his country and this ________and his dream was to become a radio sports anchor, moving to another country. He told us those things in a humorous way__________ guiding us back for several minutes to the check-in desk of the airport. We__________ together, and in the end, I　 wished him well, and to have strength and luck, etc.

When the security officer left us at our airline desk where a lady was ________ — the flight cancellation complaint, our eyes were shining, and our spirits were________Maybe that was the trigger that allowed us to have __________for the lady at the desk and talk nicely to her, while all the other customers were complaining and screaming; and maybe that was also the trigger that allowed us to get a special ________ back home,________the big majority of customers stayed in Brazil.

1.A.station B.airport C.harbor D.border

2.A.changed B.missed C.booked D.cancelled

3.A.called B.announced C.requested D.checked

4.A.original B.final C.return D.delayed

5.A.flowing B.rushing C.jogging D.floating

6.A.delivered B.transferred C.scheduled D.performed

7.A.breath B.turn C.look D.seat

8.A.permission B.knowledge C.confirmation D.information

9.A.questioning B.panicking C.managing D.struggling

10.A.dignity B.confidence C.kindness D.determination

11.A.holiday B.belief C.story D.trouble

12.A.curious about B.happy with C.Sorry for D.tired of

13.A.house B.friends C.job D.families

14.A.if B.since C.though D.while

15.A.laughed B.searched C.played D.left

16.A.taking care of B.making use of C.going in for D.getting rid of

17.A.broken B.displayed C.lifted D.developed

18.A.affection B.enthusiasm C.suspicion D.sympathy

19.A.present B.connection C.surprise D.experience

20.A.unless B.although C.whereas D.until

高三英语完形填空困难题查看答案及解析

When I was 16 I wrote a list of things that I wanted to do in my lifetime. Some things were easy, some difficult and some almost Some things were easy, some difficult and some almost ________. One of the things on the list was to do a ________.

Two years ago I spent three months travelling and it was a great ________. One day, we were ________ in a hotel in Brazil, playing games when my friend suddenly ________ an advertisement on the wall ________ “Skydive over Iguassu Falls today!” We looked at each other and ________ it was time to do something crazy. Today would be the day that we would ________ a plane.

That afternoon we were ________ and taken to the Skydive Centre. We put on our harnesses（跳伞装备）and helmets, were given some ________ and then took off into the air. My heart started to beat very fast and I felt very ________.

_____, I was tied to an instructor so I didn’t have to worry about anything; I just had to ________ myself. He asked me if I was ________ to fall from the plane but before I had time to ________, we fell to the ground at 200 km an hour! After about 20 seconds of ________, the parachute（降落伞）opened and everything slowed down. We ________ peacefully towards the earth, leaving the clouds ________ us.

This was definitely one of the scariest ________ most exciting experiences of my life. I would do another skydive if I had the ________. I think that everyone should do something that scares them once in a while.

1.A. doubtful　　 B. uncertain　　 C. impossible　　 D. unnecessary

2.A. skydive　　 B. travel　　 C. job　　 D. survey

3.A. occasion　　 B. experience　　 C. schedule　　 D. adventure

4.A. dreaming　　 B. relaxing　　 C. hidden　　 D. deserted

5.A. published　　 B. posted　　 C. ignored　　 D. noticed

6.A. writing　　 B. printing　　 C. announcing　　 D. saying

7.A. reported　　 B. complained　　 C. decided　　 D. predicted

8.A. get on　　 B. jump out of　　 C. get rid of　　 D. keep away

9.A. picked up　　 B. turned away　　 C. showed around　　 D. laughed at

10.A. instructions　　 B. educations　　 C. assignments　　 D. arrangements

11.A. angry　　 B. dangerous　　 C. nervous　　 D. curious

12.A. Naturally　　 B. Cheerfully　　 C. Luckily　　 D. Hopefully

13.A. be　　 B. prove　　 C. betray　　 D. enjoy

14.A. eager　　 B. suitable　　 C. ready　　 D. convenient

15.A. promise　　 B. answer　　 C. refuse　　 D. hear

16.A. falling　　 B. flying　　 C. testing　　 D. learning

17.A. floated　　 B. flowed　　 C. trembled　　 D. rose

18.A. ahead of　　 B. behind　　 C. along with　　 D. below

19.A. and　　 B. so　　 C. or　　 D. but

20.A. time　　 B. money　　 C. wish　　 D. opportunity

高三英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

It was 1961 and I was in the fifth grade. My marks in school were miserable and, the thing was, I didn’t know enough to really care. My older bother and I lived with Mom in an ugly multi-family house in Detroit. We watched TV every night. The background noise of our lives was gunfire and horses’  hoofs(马蹄) from “Wagon Train” or “Cheyenne”, and laughter from “I Love Lucy”, or “Mister Ed”. After supper, we’d lie on Mom’s bed and stare for hours at the TV screen.

But one day Mom changed our world forever. She turned off the TV. Our mother had only been able to get through third grade. But, she was much brighter and smarter than we boys know at the time. She had noticed something in the suburban houses where she cleaned books. So she came home one day, switched off the TV, sat us down and explained that her sons were going to make something of themselves. “You boys are going to read two books every week,” she said. “And you’re going to write a report on what you read.”

We moaned（不满,发牢骚） and complained about how unfair it was. Besides, we didn’t have any books in the house other than Mom’s Bible. But she explained that we would go where the books were: “I’ll drive you to the library.”

So pretty soon there were these two peevish（坏脾气的）boys sitting in her white 1959 Oldsmobile on their way to Detroit Public Library. I wandered reluctantly（不情愿） among the children’s books. I loved animals, so when I saw some books that seemed to be about animals, I started leafing through them.

The first book I read clear through was Chip the Dam Builder. It was about beavers（河狸）. For the first time in my life I was lost in another world. No television program had ever taken me so far away from my surroundings as did this virtue visit to a cold stream in a forest and these animals building a home.

It didn’t dawn on me at the time, but the experience was quite different from watching TV. There were images forming in my mind instead of before my eyes. And I could return to them again and again with the flip（快速翻动）of a page.

Soon I began to look forward to visiting this quiet sanctuary form my other world. I moved from animals to plants, and then to rocks. Between the covers of all those books were whole worlds, and I was free to go anywhere in them. Along the way a funny thing happened: I started to know things. Teachers started to notice it too. I got to the point where I couldn’t wait to get home to my books.

Now my older brother is an engineer and I am chief of pediatric neurosurgery(儿童神经外科)at John Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore. Sometimes I still can’t believe my life’s journey, from a failing and indifferent student in a Detroit public school to this position, which takes me all over the world to teach and perform critical surgery.

But I know when the journey began the day Mom switched off the TV set and put us in her Oldsmobile for that drive to the library.

1.We can learn from the beginning of the passage that ___________.

2.Which of the following is not true about the author’s family?

3.How did the two boys feel about going to the library at first?

4.The author began to love books for the following reasons EXCEPT that ___________.

高三英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析

When my grandmother died at the age of 96, there were two things she left behind in abundance — nearly 100 photo albums documenting decades of travel and home life, and a dozen quilts, one of which my mother gave me.

Quilting is the process of sewing together fabric (布料) to make one large piece of fabric. In my family, quilting and sewing is a tradition that has been passed down through the generations. My mother says her great-grandmother would occasionally travel around New York State to sew clothing for other families.

In the United States, quilting was a craft (手艺) that started as a necessity and eventually became much more. In 1862, the U.S. government offered millions of acres of land to Americans who wanted to move west. This allowed families to settle on land that they could eventually own. They often built their own homes and lived off the vegetables in their gardens and the livestock they had. Sewing was very important for women because they were responsible for clothing their families and keeping them warm.

Quilting also became a chance for women to socialize with each other. They would gather for so-called “quilting bees”, where they would meet and work on one quilting project together. This provided a much-needed relief from the lonely life of living on a large piece of land.

Throughout history, the different patterns on American quilts have conveyed all kinds of information. From them, we can tell where a person lived, what region of the world they originated from, or sometimes a story is told in pictures on a quilt. Even today, women still gather to quilt together in a show of friendship and a love for the craft, just like the old days. My sister has tried quilting a few times, and hopefully, her two daughters may one day continue this family tradition.

1.What do we know about quilting?

A.It is a lost traditional craft.

B.It is a major means of making a living in the USA.

C.It is a craft that has become a cultural symbol.

D.It was a way to carry on the American history.

2.What does the author intend to do in paragraph 3?

A.Introduce a new topic for discussion.

B.Summarize the previous paragraphs.

C.Add some background information.

D.Praise the U.S. government’s policy.

3.What does the underlined word “this” in paragraph 4 refer to?

A.Working on the land. B.Participating in “quilting bees”.

C.Clothing the family. D.Designing a quilting project.

4.What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A.Quilting patterns can convey limited information.

B.Quilting can’t meet the need to socialize nowadays.

C.Quilting is not a tradition in the author’s family.

D.The author hopes quilting can be passed on to younger generations.

高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析