宝山中学2019届高三英语第一学期期中试卷
I.Listening Comprehension
II.Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A
There are many superstitions(迷信)in Britain,but one of___21___(widely)held is that it is unlucky to walk under a ladder,even if it means___22___(step)off the pavement into a busy street.If you___23___________ pass under a ladder,you can avoid bad luck by crossing your fingers and keeping them___24___(cross)until you’ve en a dog.Alternatively,you may lick your finger and make a cross on the toe of your shoe,and then wait for it to dry.
Another common superstition is that it is unlucky to open an umbrella in the hou—it will___25___bring misfortune to the person who opened it or to the houhold.Moreover,___26___opens an umbrella in fine weather is unpopular as it inevitably brings rain!
The number13is said to be unlucky for some,and when the13th day of the month falls___27___a Fri
day, whoever wishes to avoid a bad event had better stay indoors.The worst misfortune that can happen to a person is caud by breaking a mirror,as it brings ven years of bad luck!The superstition is said___28___(originate)in ancient times,when mirrors were considered to be tools of the gods.
Black cat are generally considered lucky in Britain,___29___________they are often associated with witchcraft(巫术).It is especially lucky if a black cat cross your path–although in America the exact opposite belief prevails.
Finally,a commonly held superstition is that of touching wood for luck.This measure is most often taken if you think you have said something___30___is tempting fate,such as“my car has never broken down,touch wood?”
Section B
British cuisine（烹饪）has developed quickly in recent years as chefs（厨师）combine the best of old and new.Why does British food have a(n)___31___for being so bad?Becau it is bad!Tho are
not the most encouraging words to hear just before eating lunch at one of Hong Kong's smartest British restaurants,Alfie's by KEE,but head chef Neil Tomes has more to say.
"The past15years or so have been a noticeable period of improvement for food in England,"the English chef says,citing the___32___in British cuisine for better ingredients,preparation and cooking methods,and more ___33___prentation.Chefs such as Delia Smith,Nigel Slater,Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay made the public realize that cooking-and eating-didn't have to be a boring thing.“It’s no longer the ca that the common man in England is___34___to show he knows about food,”Tomes says."It's no longer the ca that the common man in England is embarrasd to show he knows about food,"Tomes says.
There was plenty of room for improvement.The problems with the nation's cuisine can be___35___back to the Second World War.Before the War,much of Britain's food was___36___from other countries and when German U-boats began attacking ships bringing food to the country,Britain went on rations(配给)."As rationing came to an end in the1950s,technology picked up and was ud to mass-produce food,"Tomes says."And by then people were just happy to have a decent quantity of food in their kitchens."
They weren't looking for cured meats,organic produce or beautiful___37___;they were looking for whatever they could get their hands on,and this___38___of quantity to quality was popular for decades,meaning a
generation was brought up with food that couldn't___39___with neighboring France,Italy,Belgium or Spain. Before star chefs such as Oliver began making cooking fashionable,it was hard to find a restaurant in London that was But in recent years the capital's culinary(烹饪的)scene has developed to the point that it is now confident of its ability to___40___the tastes of any international visitor.
Ⅲ.Reading Comprehension
Section A
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Molecular biologist（分子生物学家）Elizabeth Blackburn shared a Nobel Prize for her rearch on telomeres （端粒）--structures at the tips of chromosomes（染色体）that play a key role in cellular（细胞的）aging.___41___ she was frustrated that important health implications of her work weren’t reaching beyond academia.
So long with psychologist Elissa Epel,she has published her findings in a new book___42___a general audience—laying out a scientific ca that may give readers___43___to keep their new year’s resolutions to not smoke,eat well,sleep enough,exerci regularly,and___44___stress.
The main message of“The Telomere Effect,”being___45___Tuesday,is that you have more control over your own aging than you may imagine.You can actually___46___your telomeres—and perhaps your life—by following sound health advice,the authors argue,bad on a review of thousands of studies.
“Telomeres listen to you,they listen to your___47___,they listen to your state of mind,”said Blackburn, president of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla,Calif.
Telomeres sit at the end of strands of DNA,like the___48___caps on shoelaces.Stress from a rough lifestyle will shorten tho caps,making it more likely that cells with___49___dividing and esntially die.
Too many of the nescent cells accelerates___50___,the pair say.This doesn’t cau any particular dia, but rearch suggests that it hastens the time when whatever your genes have in store will occur—so if you’re vulnerable to heart dia,you’re more likely to get it younger if your te
lomeres are shorter,said Epel,director of the University of California,San Francisco’s Aging,Metabolism and Emotions Center.
“We can provide a new level of specificity and tell people more precily with clues___51___from telomere science,what exact___52___is related to long telomeres,what exact foods are related to long telomeres,what aspects of sleep are more related to long telomeres,”Epel added.
Other rearchers in the field praid Blackburn and Epel’s efforts to make telomere rearch relevant to the general public,___53___veral warned that it risked___54___the science.
“I think it’s a very difficult thing to prove conclusively”that___55___can affect telomere length and therefore lifespan,said Harvard geneticist and anti-aging rearcher David Sinclair.“To get cau-effect in humans is impossible,so it’s bad on associations.”
41.A.And B.Furthermore C.Thus D.But
ferred to B.convinced of C.informed of D.aimed at
43.A.warning B.appealing C.motivation D.implication
44.A.lay emphasis on B.cut down on
C.add to
45.A.ignored B.overlooked C.expod D.published
360浏览器首页46.A.shorten B.lengthen C.simplify D.reduce
ssages B.attitudes C.instincts D.behaviors雨水三候
48.A.inevitable B.progressive C.protective D.influential
lect B.initiate C.cea D.maintain
50.A.human health B.human curity C.human aging D.mental stress
51.A.suffering B.emerging C.suspending D.profiting
52.A.illness B.exerci C.gene D.smoking
53.A.so B.or C.though D.becau
54.A.overestimating B.over-viewing C.underestimating D.oversimplifying
55.A.symptom B.combination C.lifestyle D.stability
Section B
（A）
My six-year-old granddaughter,Cailyn,and I stopped at a Tim Horton’s shop for a blueberry cake.As we were going out of the door,a young teenage boy was coming in.
This young man had no hair on sides of his head with a t of blue spiked（竖起的）hair on top of it.One of his nostrils(鼻孔)was pierced（扎、穿）,and a ring ran through the hole and a chain went across his face and was attached to a ring he was wearing in his ear.He held a skateboard under one arm and a basketball under the other. Caitlyn,who was walking ahead of me,stopped at once when she saw the teenager,I thought he’d scared her and she’d frozen on the spot.
I was wrong.
My granddaughter backed up against the door and opened it as wide as it would go.Now I was face t
o face with the young man.I stepped aside and let him pass.His respon was a polite“Thank you very much”.
On our way to the car,I praid Caitlyn for her manners in holding open the door for the young man.She didn’t em to be troubled by his appearance,but I wanted to make sure.If a grandmother’s talk about freedom of lf-expression and allowing people their differences was in order,I wanted to be ready.
As it turned out,the person who needed the talk was me.
The only thing Caitlyn noticed about the teenager was the fact that his arms were full.“He would have a hard time to open the door.”
I saw the partially shaved head,the t of spiked hair,the piercing and the chain.She saw a person carrying something under each arm and heading toward a clod door.
In the future,I hope to get down on her level and rai my sights.
56.What did the author think of the young man?
A.Frightening
B.Uncommon
C.Polite
D.Funny
57.Caitlyn helped the young man becau______.
A.she was scared
B.it would be difficult for him to open the door
C.she wanted to avoid him
D.she didn’t notice his look
58.The underlined ntence suggests that_____.
A.a talk of freedom was uless for the granddaughter
B.the author didn’t know how to give a talk on freedom
C.the author was ashamed of herlf
D.people should have more freedom to express themlves
59.The author intends to tell us that_____.
A.we shouldn’t judge a person by his look
B.we should allow people more freedom to dress differently
C.we should more helpful and tolerant to people
D.we shouldn’t be too particular about people in life
（B）
Jenny’s Problem Clinic
中队长职责
Leaving home?
Almost all young people and their parents will one day to face facts—it’s time to leave and it’s time to let go.
Julia Stark is18and wants to leave home,but her parents would prefer to stay at home for now.
60.It can be learned from the passage that_____.
A.Julia and her parents didn’t talk much about her future.
B.Julia played video games a lot but it didn’t affect her study.
C.Julia and her parents had no conflicts until a few months ago
D.Julia’s parents didn’t want to sacrifice a lot financially for her
61.Julia and her parents fail to agree on______.
A.whether leaving home is an emotional issue at all
B.whether she needs to apply for a better university
C.whether grades are more important than independence
D.whether she can support herlf by taking a part-time job
62.How did Julia’s parents feel the moment Julia told them she wanted to leave home?
人大的四个职权A.Angry
B.Relieved
泡茶用多少度的水C.Shocked
D.Satisfied
（C）
How many really suffer as a result of labor market problems?One of the most critical yet debatable social policy questions.
In many ways,our social statistics overstate the degree of hardship.Unemployment does not have the same horrible conquences today as it did in the1930’s when most of the unemployed were primary breadwinners, when income and earnings were usually much clor to the margin of survival,and when there were fewer effective social programs for tho failing in the labor market.Increasing wealth,the ri of families with more than one wage earner,the growing dominance of condary earners among the unemployed and improved social welfare protection have unquestionably relieved the conquences of joblessness.Earnings and income data also over
estimate the scale of hardship.Among the millions with hourly earnings at or below the minimum wage level, the majority are from multiple-earner,relatively well-off families.Most of tho counted by the poverty statistics are elderly or handicapped or have family responsibilities which keep them out of the labor force,so the poverty statistics are by no means an accurate indicator of labor market problems.
Yet there are also many ways our social statistics underestimate the degree of labor-market-related hardship. The unemployment counts exclude the millions of fully employed workers who wages are so low that their families remain in poverty.Low wages and repeated or long-time unemployment frequently interact to weaken the capacity for lf-support.Since the number experiencing joblessness at some time during the year is veral times that unemployed in any month,tho who suffer as a result of forced idleness can equal or exceed average annual unemployment,even though only a minority of the jobless in any month really suffer.For every person counted in the monthly unemployment totals,there is another working part-time becau of the inability to find full-time work,or el outside the labor force but wanting a job.Finally,income transfers in our country have always focud on the elderly,disabled,and dependent,neglecting the needs of the working poor,so that the dramatic expansion of cash and non-cash transfers does not necessarily mean that tho failing in the labor market are adequately protected.
As a result of such contradictory evidence,it is uncertain whether tho suffering riously as a result of labor market problems number in the hundreds of thousands or the tens of millions,and,hence,whether high levels of joblessness can be tolerated or must be countered(抵消)by job creation and economic stimulus.There is only one area of agreement in this debate--that the existing poverty,employment,and earnings statistics are inadequate for one of their primary applications,measuring the conquences of labor market problems.
63.In Paragraph2,the author contrasts the1930’s with the prent in order to show that____.
< people were unemployed in the1930’s
B.income level has incread since the1930’s
C.social programs are more in need now
D.Unemployment is more intolerable today
64.Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A.A majority of low-wage workers receive earnings from more than one job
B.Repetition of short-term unemployment mainly contributes to people’s loss of working capacity
C.Many unemployed people are from families where other members are working
D.Labor market hardship is understated becau fewer individuals are jobless than counted
65.It can be inferred from the passage that the effect of income transfers is often not felt by__________.
A.tho doing a low-paid,part-time job
B.children in single-earner families
C.workers who have just retired
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D.full-time workers who become unemployed
简短的早晨励志句子66.Which of the following is the principal topic of the passage?
A.What caus labor market problems that result in suffering
B.Why income statistics are impreci in measuring degrees of poverty
C.When poverty,employment,and earnings figures agree with each other.
