安徽省合肥市高三下学期第三次教学质量检测试题（英语）

He expressed his gratitude to his head teacher, without _______-help he wouldn’t have made such great progress in his studies.

--- Sorry, Daddy. I am not getting on well with my studies.
--- Well._________You hadn’t wasted so much time playing online games.

He has made up his mind to____________his dream no matter what difficulties he may run into.

Since my return to China, I haven’t seen my host mother in America; nor______from her.

My mom once worked in a very small village school, which is__________only on foot.

We are often told by our teachers not to do such things that don’t _________a harmonious society.

After the party, most guests left, with only two of them__________in the host family,       him cleaning up.

．When I moved to a new community, I found it different from -----------I had stayed in before.

．________boys and girls in that school are almost equal, of which both of the headmasters are proud.

．--- Jack is really a brave guy.
--- So he is. And we can’t admire his courage ____________.

--- I called you last night, but nobody answered.
--- Oh, I usually__________off my cell phone by 8:00 pm.

．--- Do you mind my smoking here?
--- ________. Look at the sign! It says, “No smoking”!

__________and the problem could be settled.

．--- Shall I give you a ride as it is so late?
--- Thank you.____________.

You could see the runners very well from         we stood.

第二节完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项
Children and young people tend to have certain role models – people they want to be like when they grow   36  . Though   37   children would have wished to copy their mother, father or a (n)   38   relative, gradually these role models are thought of as famous people or popular   39  . People have different opinions about   40   popular stars or other famous people are good role models for children. Charming models, such as Katie Price, are often admired and   41   by young girls. This is the biggest worry of parents and teachers. They wish to   42   the concept that success is achieved through hard work and   43   rather than an attractive looking.
Most people tend to grow up to be those who are   44   home – their parents or family friends. Some decide to be like their favorite teacher. A child who loves to   45   may want to grow to be the next Picasso or Van Gogh; Someone who loves to   46   might imagine themselves as a famous writer; if a child enjoys dancing, he or she   47   well admire a famous dancer, but this is not the   48  . A lot of dance students wish to be like their   49   teacher.
Therefore, the job of a teacher is   50   just providing knowledge of a given subject. They should be able to   51   their students’ trust and   52   them well. Helping youngsters to learn from models, to learn how to accept   53   with grace and losing with dignity, is central to any parent’s or teacher’s job. Manners are very important and a dance teacher can   54   his or her position and influence to   55   good behaviors to youngsters.
36．A．younger    B．stronger    C．older D．taller
37．A．at first      B．at last       C．at least      D．at most
38．A．generous   B．favorite    C．ordinary   D．humorous
39．A．fans  B．stars  C．singers      D．dancers
40．A．that   B．why  C．whether    D．if
41．A．looked down upon   B．thought highly of
C．caught up with        D．made fun of
42．A．encourage B．receive     C．hold  D．ignore
43．A．luck  B．imagination      C．effort       D．creativity
44．A．similar to  B．different from  C．far from   D．close to
45．A．read and write  B．sing and dance  C．listen and speak       D．draw and paint
46．A．write B．read  C．travel       D．think
47．A．should      B．may  C．must  D．need
48．A．deal  B．trouble     C．matter      D．case
49．A．dance       B．music       C．art     D．piano
50．A．better than       B．less than   C．more than D．rather than
51．A．receive     B．lose   C．gain  D．accept
52．A．communicate with   B．keep up with
C．negotiate with         D．put up with
53．A．challenging      B．falling      C．failing      D．winning
54．A．make use of     B．lose control of  C．take charge of  D．get rid of
55．A．turn  B．press C．introduce  D．push

第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题，每题2分，满分40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。
Until quite recently, I knew only three things about my father: I knew his name, David S. Johnson, Jr. I knew he was an only child, and I’d been told he was killed on April 12, 1945, somewhere in Germany.
I used to come to visit my Granny. “Daddy David and his two friends were out in the fields, making sure the way was safe for the others to follow,” she told me. “All of a sudden there was an explosion. All three of them were killed.” Granny was looking down, stroking one thin hand with the other. Then there were no words but silence.
I began my search and collection for information about my father as my 50th birthday and the 50th anniversary of his death drew near. I was told that the explosion had blown him to bits and I had great difficulty collecting anything I could find about him bit by bit. Bits of information about his began falling into my hands, my mind and my heart. Longing to know my father kept me connected to him. It was time to transform my longing into knowledge.
Once upon a time he was alive, and my mother and father were deeply in love. They were married, and they had a child, my brother David. Then my father left for the war.
I was born in January 1945. On February 15 my father wrote me a letter of welcome. The letter is kept in my baby book, “Dear Susan, you have a very good family. Your dad is sort of a less able person. Your mother is the most wonderful person I’ve ever known. I’ve always marveled at my great good fortune to have her and been loved by her. If you follow her words and examples, you may expect to meet life in the best possible way, and your path will always be the right one. Your father, Dave.”
Black on white paper, the words are from my father. From them I grow into a person of loyalty and love. How I long for stories that will bring him to life!
1．The writer got to know her father’s story of death from         .
A．her father’s friends  B．someone in Germany
C．her grandmother             D．a little child
2．The author meet difficulty finding information about her father because          .
A．it was too  late for her to start the search    
B．the explosion left little about her father
C．she only found pieces of hands and legs
D．she didn’t have enough knowledge to do it
3．Which of the following statements is TURE?          .
A．Her parents had only one child       B．Her father died before her birth
C．Her father was a disabled man D．The writer never saw her father
4．We know from the last paragraph that the author         .
A．still hates her father for having left
B．is curious about her father’s death
C．shows much respect for her father
D．is sure that her father may survive

A lonely and sad pug (哈巴狗) was photographed as he waited for his owner by the side of the road has been considered as the world’s saddest dog. Pictures of the pet taken by a passer-by have become an internet foucus after being posted on the photo-sharing  website Flickr. The dog which is nicknamed Mr Newman looks terribly upset as he sits on the pavement tied to a lamp-post with a rope.
The photograph was taken outside a café in the Californian city of San Francisco, which may go some way to explaining why he is dressed in a stylish grey and purple sweater.
"He was hanging around looking for somebody to love him. I tried to cheer him up – he seemed happy to see me," said the photographer Chris Michael.
One of the four photos of the pug on Flickr is titled "Tough day for Mr Newman" and with some other words as follows: "Despite his cool clothes, the girls just aren't interested in him any more."
Dozens of people on the site said they had been touched by the dog's pitiful expressions gaze. "I come back to see this photo every now and then because it's too cute, so does my daughter. In fact, my family all are touched," wrote one of the pedestrians who had seen the photo. Another viewer said that she had been moved as to buy a pug of her own after seeing the photos.
Mr Newman may have won the hearts of internet users but he is unlikely to be more famous than a cat competitor Keyboard Cat, the musical pet who has become a star on YouTube.
1．The little pug waited by the road probably because           .
A．it was abandoned by its owner       B．it was left behind by his owner
C．it was trapped by a passer – by      D．it couldn’t find the way home
2．We can infer from the passage that the photographer Chris Michael          .
A．knew much about the owner of the dog 
B．helped to find the owner of the pug
C．took great interest in its colorful sweater
D．tried to amuse the pug in some ways
3．The writer used the underlined sentence from the website to           .
A．add some humor to the passage
B．describe the pug’s loveliness
C．help the god owner recognize it
D．inform girls to adopt the dog
4．What would be discussed next according to the text?          .
A．Description of another dog
B．The pug’s recent situation
C．Some details about the keyboard cat
D．Pet owners’ responsibility

On December 18, 1620, passengers on the British ship Mayflower came on shore at modern – day Plymouth, Massachusetts, to begin their new settlement, Plymouth Colony.
The famous Mayflower story began in 1606, when a group of reform-minded people in England built their own church, which was separate from the state – supported Church of England. Because of this, they were forced to leave the country and settle in Netherlands. After 12 years of struggling to adapt and make a hard living, the group sought financial backing from some London merchants to set up a colony in America.
On Septmeber 6,1620, one hundred and two passengers – called Pilgrims (朝圣者) by William Bradford, a passenger who would become the first governor of Plymouth Colony – crowded on the Mayflower to begin the long, hard journey to a new life in the New World. On November 11,1620, the Mayflower landed at Provincetown Harbor. Before going on shore, 41 male passengers – heads of families, single men and three male servants – signed the famous Mayflower contract, agreeing to form a government chosen by common election and to obey all laws made for the good of the colony.
Over the next month, several small leading teams were sent on shore to collect firewood and hunt for a good place to build a settlement. Around December 10, one of these groups found a harbor they liked on the western side of Cape Cod Bay. They returned to the Mayflower to tell the other passengers, but bad weather prevented then reaching the harbor until December 16. Two days later, the first group of Pilgrims went on shore. After exploring the region, the settlers chose a cleared area once controlled by members of a local Native American tribe (部落). The tribe had abandoned the village several years earlier, after an outbreak of European disease.
That winter of 1620 – 1621 was really hard, as the Pilgrims struggled to build their settlement, find food and take care of the sick. By spring, 50 of the original 102 Mayflower passengers were dead. The remaining settlers made contact with returning members of the Native American tribe and in March they signed a peace treaty (条约) with the tribe chief. In the spring time, helped by the locals, the Pilgrims were able to plant crops – especially corn and beans – that were necessary to their survival.
On April 5,1621, the Mayflower and its crew left Plymouth to return to England. Over the next several decades, more and more settlers made the voyage across the Atlantic to Plymouth, which gradually grew into a successful shipbuilding and fishing center.
1．A group of English were forced to leave their country in 1606 because          .
A．their belief was different from the official Church
B．they built their own churches in a foreign country
C．they lacked financial support from the government
D．they were ambitious to build the colony in America
2．How many days did the sea journey to Provincetown Harbor last?          .
A．103   B．96     C．66     D．35
3．Several leading teams were sent in order to        .
A．hunt for food for the passengers     B．control local Native Americans
C．build a settlement for the passengers      D．explore the region for their settlement
4．From the passage we know that         between 1620 – 1621.
A．52 Mayflower passengers died of some illnesses   
B．Pilgrims had a good relationship with the locals
C．Plymouth turned a main center for shipbuilding   
D．Pilgrims tried to plant corns and beans in winter

An Experiment
Materials: Newspaper, ‘ACE’ hardware ruler (1/8 “think”), a flat table.
Purposes: We’ll show that there is air pressure pushing on us, from every direction while we’re on this Earth.

Procedure:

A team from Krakow, in Poland, used functional magnetic resonance imaging (机能性核共振成像) (FMRI) to assess brain activity when 40 volunteers were shown various images. Men showed activity in areas which dealt with what action they should take in order to avoid or face up to danger. But the study found more activity in the emotional centers of women's brains. The researchers, from another university, carried out scans on 21 men and 19 women. Brain activity was monitored while the volunteers were shown images of objects and images from ordinary life designed to remind different emotional states.
The images were displayed in two runs. For the first run, only negative pictures were shown. For the second run, only positive pictures were shown.
While viewing the negative images, women showed stronger and broader activity in the left thalamus（神经床）. This is an area which passes sense information to the pain and pleasure centres of the brain. Men showed more activity in an area of the brain called the left insula（脑岛）, which plays a key role in controlling natural functions, including breath, heart rate and digestion. Generally, activity in this area tells the body to either run away from danger, or meet it head on - the so-called "fight or flight response".
While viewing positive images, women showed stronger activity in an area of the brain associated with memory. With men, the stronger activity was recorded in an area associated with visual processing. Dr Urbanik believes these differences suggest women may analyze positive stimuli（刺激）in a broader social context and associate positive images with a particular memory.
For instance, viewing a picture of a smiling child might remind memories of a woman's own child at this age. On the contrary, male responses tend to be less emotional.
1．The research shows that men response differently to         compared with women.
A．different images             B．ordinary life
C．different activities           D．medical scan
2．According to the passage, when faced with danger,            .
A．women react more slowly than men       B．women usually try to avoid it 
C．men usually have no reaction  D．men react to it more directly
3．What is discussed in the 4 th paragraph?          .
A．Men and women’s different memories
B．The different responses to the children
C．Different reactions to positive stimuli
D．Negative results of the visual processing
4．The passage mainly develops           .
A．by inferring            B．by comparing
C．by listing examples  D．by giving explanations

第Ⅱ卷（非选择题，共35分）
第四部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节 任务型读写（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
阅读下面短文，根据所读内容在表格中的空白处填入恰当的单词。注意：每个空格只填一个单词。
In a memory – based competition between you and a chimp (猩猩); who do you think would win? If you put yourself on top, you might want to guess again.
In a test that challenged participants to remember numbers, a young chimp performed better than Japanese college students.
Here's how the test worked. At Kyoto University in Japan, human students and chimpanzee participants sat in front of a computer. Five numbers, ranging from 1 to 9, were combined with one another and then, they appeared at random places on the screen.
The numbers stayed on the screen for less than a second. In the first test, for example, participants saw the numbers for 650 milliseconds (about two- thirds of a second).
Then, each number disappeared and they saw a white square instead. Participants had to touch the squares in numerical order, based on the numbers that had been there a moment before.
In this test, the students touched the boxes in the correct order about 80 percent of the time. A young chimp named Ayumu performed equally well.
During a harder test, participants were only able to see the numbers for 210 milliseconds.
This time, students only succeeded in putting the boxes in the correct order about 40 percent of the time. But Ayumustill could select the boxes in the right order nearly 80 percent of the time.    
Some people have what's called a "photographic memory", which allows them to remember a surprising number of details after just a quick glimpse of something. Ayumu's memory might work in a similar way, says lead researcher Tetsuro Matsuzawa.
The chimp's young age might have something to do with his impressive performance, too. In previous tests, the Japanese researchers found that young chimps performed better than their mothers.
The scientists are interested to see whether Ayumu loses his strong memory as he arrows older. They already know that young children sometimes have sharp memories when offered something photographical, but they lose this ability over time.

第二节 书面表达（满分25分）
众所周知，合肥市的各项“大建设”项目正在进行得如火如荼。为了配合这次的物质文明大建设，你们学校正地进行一次精神文明大讨论的活动。作为一名中学生，你发现身边还存在着许多不文明的行为。请你根据以下提示，用英文写一篇倡议书，号召全校师生从我做起，杜绝不文明行为。内容包括：
1．不文明行为的表现（如乱穿马路，乱扔垃圾等）；
2．不文明行为的影响；
3．你的建议和措施（至少三点）。
注意：
1．可根据要求要点适当增加细节，使行文连贯；
2．词数：120词左右。
短文开头已为你写好，不计入总数。
As we all know, the Big Construction in Hefei is in progress. Meanwhile, we should also pay attention to the construction of the spiritual civilization.