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南开中学2007届高三英语调研试题

    本试卷分第Ⅰ卷(选择题)、第Ⅱ卷(非选择题)和第Ⅲ卷(选择题)三部分，共150 分，考试用时120分钟。考试结束后，将第Ⅱ卷和答题卡交回。

第Ⅰ卷(共85分)

    第一部分：英语知识运用(共两节，满分45分)

    第一节：单项填空(共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分)

    从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

1．In the       of  rain, the opening ceremony of the book  fair will have to be held indoors．

    A．face                    B．event                   C．time             D. course

2．I want to buy that kind of cloth because I    the cloth    well．

    A．have told; washed                        B．have been told；washes

    C．have been told；is washed           D．was told;  washed．

3．Willpower is a kind of quality…and that is       it takes to do everything well.

    A．why                    B．that                     C．what             D． which

4.To keep healthy, a lot of people     jogging as a  regular form of  exercise ．

    A．took up               B．caught on             C. carried out      D．made for

5．Richard was called in by the police to answer questions       disappearance of Thomas Ripley,  whose relatives were so     his present situation，

    A．concerning；concerning about         B．concerned；worrying about

    C．with regards to；concerned about        D．regarding；concerned about

6．Jim is awfully  difficult to make friends with, but the friendship of his,_______ ,is more true than any other．

 A. once gained            B．when to gain         C．as gained       D．while gaining

7．Is the Haihe River,        through  Tianjin ,very large? 

    A．which flows          B．flows．                 C．which one flows  D．flowed

8．―why are you so late ? I     here for more than an hour ．

  --I’m terribly sorry. I overslept and missed the bus.

    A．am waiting     B．was waiting    C．have been waiting         D．have been waited

9．Mom, I lost     diamond ring you bought for me as my birthday present.

    Could you keep______ eye out for it when you clean my bedroom?

A．a；an           B．a；the          C．the；the                       D．the ;an

10.The local government is trying all out to find out who is _______the forest fire．

    A. to blame for starting       B．to blame to start

    C. to be blamed for staring    D．to be blamed to start

11．-Do you mind if I visit you now and talk about the advertising campaign，Mr. President ?

    -I'd rather you      at the moment．

    A．are not coming  B．don’t come  C．didn’t come                  D．will not come

12．It was     back home after the experiment．

  A．not until midnight did he go     B．until midnight that he didn’t go

  C. until midnight when he didn’t go  D．not until midnight that he went

13．My parents will move back into town in a year Or______.

    A. 1ater              B.  after             C．about                          D. so

14．The film Harry Potter IV is       for  children above 12 and adults for it contains horror and violence．

    A．promised     B．intended        C. admitted                       D．permitted

15．       it is true that a successful businessman or inventor will usually become rich,  many  other people who are outstanding in their field take little notice of personal possessions．

    A. While            B．Since            C．Unless                          D．If

    第二节：完形填空(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l6-35 各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

    During my first three years on the island, I considered often how I might cross to this mainland.    My first two attempts  16 ,for in each case, 17 I had painstakingly built a boat to carry  me, I found it too  18  and heavy to move to the water’s edge．19  I built a small canoe out   of a tree trunk. 20 too small  for crossing the ocean, the  canoe would at least enable me to sail around the  21 ．I loaded it with provisions (准备), 22  my little sail ,and set out, staying  close to the  23  ．At length, however ,I  24  a  rocky point around which the waves  25  in  such  a  way as to send my small boat out to sea．It was only  by  great  26  and  provide I was able to sail  back  to land．When at  last I fell exhausted upon the floor of my country bower(凉亭)，I  was  27  to hear a voice echoing(回响)my  28 ，saying，“Poor Robinson  Crusoe ,where are you ?Where have you been?”I started up  29  fear．After while I  30 that it was my parrot ，Poll，31 the phrases I had taught him．

    For fifteen years，I busied myself with caring  32  my crops and animals，maintaining my houses，and  33  my island．Then one day as I went to my canoe，I was surprised to see the print or a man’s naked  34  ,very  plain in the sand.Thunderstruck，I looked and  35 , but  neither saw  nor  heard angry one．Nor were there any other footprints．

    16  A．failed          B．happened      C．succeeded       D． survived

    17  A．as             B．when        C. after                    D. before

    18. A．tall                     B．small          C. large            D. dangerous

    19．A. Firstly                  B．Secondly      C. Next            D. Finally

    20．A．But           B．Still           C. Because          D．Though

    21．A sea              B．island          C．river mouth     D．water’s edge

    22. A．put             B．folded         C．raised          D. started

    23. A．rock            B．sea           C. ocean           D. shoreline

24．A escaped          B．avoided        C．came across     D.knocked  into

    25．A. swept           B. blew           C．flew           D．flooded

    26．A．courage        B．struggle        C. wisdom         D. desire

    27. A． mad           B. angry           C. pleased           D．astonished

    28．A．tones          B．heart          C．speeches        D. thoughts

    29．A．at             B．by          C．on            D．with

    30．A. knew           B．realized        C.admitted          D. recognized

    31．A. singing          B．shouting       C.1eaning          D. repeating

    32．A．about          B．of             C．to             D. for

    33．A．enjoying        B.beautifying      C．planning        D．exploring

    34．A. foot             B .hand           C. leg              D. arm

    35．A．thought        B．1istened             C．noticed         D.sensed

    第三部分：阅读理解(共211小题，每小题2分，满分40分)

    阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题

    卡上将该项涂黑。 

A

Money spent on advertising is money spent as well as any I knew of .It serves directly to  assist a rapid distribution of goods at reasonable price，thereby establishing a firm home market and so making it possible to provide for export at competitive prices drawing attention to new ideas it helps enormously to raise standards of living .By helping to increase demand it ensures an increased need for labor , and is therefore an effective way to fight unemployment .It lowers the costs of many services：without advertisements your daily newspaper would cost  four times as much，the  price of your television license would need to be doubled ,and travel by bus or tube would cost 20 percent more．

    And perhaps most important of all，advertising provides a guarantee of reasonable value in the produces and services you buy. Apart from the fact that twenty seven acts of Parliament govern  the terms of advertising，no regular advertiser dare promote a product that fails to live up to the  promise of his advertisements，He  might fool  some people for a little while through  misleading advertising．He will not do so for long ,for mercifully the public has the good sense not to buy the inferior article more than once .If you see an article consistently advertised ,it is the surest proof I know that the article does what is claimed  for it, and that it represents good  value。

    Advertising does more for the material benefit of the community than any other force I can think of.

    There is one more point I feel I ought to touch on. Recently I heard a well-known television  personality declare that he was against advertising because it persuades rather than informs．He was drawing excessively fine distinctions．Of course  advertising seeks to persuades．

 If its message were confined merely to   information ?and that in itself would be difficult if not impossible to achieve,for even a detail such as the choice of the color of a shirt is subtly  persuasive―advertising would be so boring that no one  would pay any attention．But  perhaps that is what the well-known television personality  wants．

36.By the first sentence of the passage the author means that     ．

    A．he is fairly familiar with the cost of advertising

    B. everybody knows well that advertising is money consuming

    C．advertising costs money  like everything else

    D．it is worthwhile to spend money on advertising

37．The underlined  word‘it’in the second paragraph stands  for    ．

    A. the article．      B．the advertiser．

    C．the advertisement．D．the proof．

38.The author deems that the well-known TV personality is        ．

    A. very precise in passing his judgment  on advertising

    B．interested in nothing but  the buyers’ attention

    C．correct in telling the difference between persuasion and information

    D．obviously partial in his views on advertising

39．In the anther’s option，       

    A. advertising can seldom bring  material benefit to man by providing information

  B．advertising informs people of new ideas rather than wins them over

    C．there is nothing wrong with adverting in persuading the  buyer

    D．the buyer is not interested in getting information from an advertisement

B

   One thing the tour books don’t tell you about London is that 2000 of its residents are foxes. They ran away from the city about two centuries ago after developers and pollution moved in. But now that the environment is clear, the foxes have come home.

   “ The number and variety of wild animals in urban areas is increasing,” says Comer Jones. A survey of the wildlife in New York’s Central Park last year counted 14 species of mammals. A similar survey conducted in the 1890s counted only five species.

   Several changes have brought wild animals to the cities. Foremost is that air and water quality in many cities has improved as a result of the 1970s pollution-control efforts. Meanwhile, rural areas have been built up, leaving many animals on the edges of suburbs. In addition, urban wildlife refuges(避难处)have been created. The Greater London Council last year spent ￡ 750,000 to buy land and build 10 permanent(永久的)wildlife refuges in the city. As a result, many birds are now living in the city. For peregrine falcons cities are actually safer than rural cliff dwellings(悬崖栖息地)。By 1970 the birds had died out east of the Mississippi because of the DDT had made their eggs too thin to support life. That year, scientist Tom Cade of Cornell University began raising the birds for release in cities afforded plenty of food.

   Cities can attract wild animals without turning them harmful. The trick is to create habitats where they can be self-sufficient but still be seen and appreciated. Such habitats can even be functional. In San Francisco, the local government is testing different kinds of rainwater control basins to see not only whish ones retain(保持)the cleanest water but which will attract the most birds.

40. The passage is mainly concerned with_____.

    A．wildlife returning to large cities  B．foxes returning to London

    C．wild animals living in zoos    D. a survey of wildlife in New York

41．It can be inferred from the passage that    

    A. Londoners are putting more and more wild animals into their zoos

    B．Londoners are happy to see wild animals return to their city

    C．Londoners file trying to move wild animals back to the countryside

    D．Londoners have welcomed the wild birds，but found foxes a problem

42．According to the passage, the number of species of wildlife in NewYork's Central Park      ．

    A．is slowly decreasing            B．competes favorably with other cities

    C．is on the same level as before        D．has more than doubled in the last century

43．Which of the following is NOT a reason that  wildlife returning to the cities?

    A．Food is plentiful  in the cities．

    B．Wildlife is appreciated in the cities．

    C．Wildlife  refuges have been  built in the cities．

    D．Air and water quality has improved in the  cities．

C

Shopping is not as simple as you may think! There are all sorts of tricks at play each time we reach out for that particular brand of product on the shelf.

Coloring, for example, varies  according to what the producers are trying to sell. Health foods are  packaged  in  greens, yellows or browns because we think of these as healthy  colors. Ice cream  packers are  often blue and expensive goods, like chocolates, are gold or silver.

     When some kind of pain killer was brought out recently, researchers found that the colors turned the customers off  because they made the product look weak and ineffective. Eventually, it came  on the market in a dark blue and white package ----blue, because we think of it as safe, And white as calm.

The  size  of a product can attract a shopper. But quite often a bottle doesn’t contain as much as It appears to.

It is believed that the better ?known companies spend, on average, 70 per cent of the total cost of the product itself on packaging!

The  most  successful producers know that it’s not enough to have a good product. The   founder of Pears soap, who  for 25 years has used pretty little girls to  promote  their  goods, came  to the  conclusion: “Any fool can make soap, but it takes a genius to sell it.”

44. Which of the following may trick a shopper into buying a product according to the text?

  A. The cost of its package          B. The price of the product

  C. The color of its package         D. The brand name of the product

45. The underlined part “the color turned the customers off” (in para.3) means the colors__.

A. attracted the customers strongly

B. had weak effects on the customers

C. tricked the customers into shopping

D. caused the customers to lose interest

46. Which of the following is the key to the success in product sales?

A. The way to promote the goods.    

B. the discovery of a genius

C. The team to produce a good producer

D. The brand name used by successful producers.

47. Which of the following could be the best title for the text?

    A. Choice of good products                B. Disadvantage of products

    C. Effect of packaging on shopping                 D. Brand names and shopping tricks 

D

   “A good book for children should simply  be a good book in its  own right,” says  Mollie  Hunter Born and  brought up near Edinburgh, Mollie has devoted her talents to writing  primarily  for young people. She firmly believes that is always and  should  always be a wider audience for any good book whatever its main market is, In Mollie’s opinion it is necessary to make full use of language and she  enjoys telling a story, which is  what every writer should be doing. “If you aren’t telling a story, you’re  a very dead writer indeed,” she says. With the chief function of a writer being to entertain (让人愉快)，Mollie is  indeed an entertainer. “I have this great love of not  only  the meaning of language but of the  music of language,” she says. “This  love  goes back to early childhood. I’ve told  stories all my life. I had a school teacher who used to ask us what we would like to  be when we grew up and, because my family always  had dogs, and I was very good at  handing them, I said I wanted to work with dogs, and the teacher  always said ‘Nonsense, Mollie, dear, you’ll be a writer.’  So finally I thought that this woman must have something, since she was a good teacher and I decided when I was nine that I would be a writer.”

    This  childhood intention  is described in her novel, A Sound of Chariots, which although written in the third person is clearly autobiographical (自传体的) and gives a picture both of Mollie’s ambition (理想) and her struggle towards its achievement. Thoughts of her childhood inevitably(不可避免地)brought thoughts of the time when her home was still a village with buttercup meadows and  strawberry fields---sadly  now covered  with modern  houses. “I was once taken back to see  it and I felt that  somebody had lain dirty hands all over my childhood. I’ll  never go back,” she said. “Never” “When I set one of my books in Scotland,” she said, “I can recall my  romantic (浪漫的) feelings as a child playing in those fields, or watching the  village blacksmith at work. And that’s important, because children now know  so much so early that romance can’t exist for them, as it did for us.”

48. What does Mollie Hunter feel about the nature of a good book?

   A. It should not aim at a narrow audience.

   B. It should be attractive to young readers.

   C. It should be based on original ideas.

   D. It should not include too much conversation.

49. In Mollie Hunter’s opinion, which of the following is one sign of a poor writer?

   A. Being poor in life experience.              B. Being short of writing skills.

   C. The  weakness of description.            D. The absence of a story.

50. What do we learn about Mollie Hunter as a young child?

   A. She didn’t expect to become a writer.  B. She didn’t enjoy writing stories.

   C. She didn’t have any particular ambitions.

 D. She didn’t respect her teacher’s views.

51. In comparison with children of earlier years , Mollie feels that children are___.

    A．more intelligent                             B．better informed

    C．1ess eager to learn                            D．1ess interested in reality

52.What’s the writer's purpose in this text?

    A. To describe Mollie Hunter's most successful books．

    B．To share her enjoyment of Mollie Hunter’s books

    C．To introduce Mollie Hunter's work to a wider audience．

D．To provide information for Mollie Hunter’s existing readers.

E

    Drunken driving-sometimes called America’s socially accepted form of murder―has become a  national epidemic(流行病)．Every hour of every day about three Americans on  average are killed by drunken  drivers，adding up to an incredible 250,000 Over the past ten  years．A  drunken driver is usually  referred to as one with O.1O -blood alcohol content or roughly three beer glasses of wine or shots of whisky drunk within two hours．Heavy drinking used to be an acceptable part of the America manly image and judges were lenient in most courts ,but the drunken killing has recently caused so many well-publicized tragedies ,especially concerning young children ,that public opinion is no  longer so tolerant(忍受)．

    Twenty states have raised the legal drinking age to 21，reversing trend(逆转潮流)in the 1960s to reduce It to 18.After New Jersey lowered it to 18，the number of people killed by 18-20-year-old drivers more than doubled ,so the state recently upped it  back to 21．

    Reformers，however ,fear raising the drinking age will have little effect unless accompanied by educational programs to help young people to develop “responsible attitudes” about drinking and teach them to resist peer pressure to drink

Though new laws have led to increased arrests and tests many areas already ,to a marked drop in accidents，some states are  also punishing bars for serving customers too many drinks．A bar in Massachusetts Was fined for serving six or more double brandies to a customer  who was“obviously drunk” and later drove the road, killing a nine-year-old boy ．

    As the accidents continue to occur daily in every state , some Americans are even beginning to speak well of the 13 years national prohibition(禁令)of alcohol that began in 1919，which President Hoover called the“noble experiment”。They forgot that legal

prohibition didn't stop drinking ,but encouraged political corruption(腐败)and organized crime．As with the booming drug trade generally ,there is no easy solution．

53．What can be inferred from the fact of the traffic accidents in New Jersey?

   A．Young drivers were usually bad．

   B．The legal drinking age should be raised．

   C．Some drivers didn't surprise the legal drinking age．

   D．Drivers should not be allowed to drink．

54．The underlined word“lenient”in the first paragraph means   

   A．merciful                B．cruel            C．serious                 D. determined

55. As regards drunken driving , public opinion has changed because    

  A. judges are no longer lenient

   B． new laws are introduced in some states

   C．drivers do not appreciate their manly image

   D．the news media have raised public attention of the problem

    第四部分：写作《共两节，满分35分》

    第一节短文改错(共10小题，每小题材1分，满分10分)

    此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断：如无错误，在该行右边横线上画一个勾(√)：如有错误(每行只有一个错误)，则按下列情况改正；

    此行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。

此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，在该行右边横线上写出该加豹词。

    此行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

    注意：原行没有错的不要改。

I used to complain my English teacher for                          56．     

her bad English.I was also tiring of  her teaching methods，             57.      

that were always slow and boring . However, my attitude               58.      

towards her began to change after one afternoon.It was rained                    59.      

heavily but I didn't attend school. Around 5:30 pm I received              60.     

a phone call.”Are you all right?” asked my English teacher in quiet         61.      

voice．On hearing his words．I was  shocked and my mind was        62.      

flooded with mixed feeling．She was showing her concern for          63.      

me ，though I had not been happily with her! Was she just acting,                64.      

or should I smooth away my past misunderstanding of her ?             65.      

第二节书面表达(满分25分)

请根据以下提示，用英语写一篇100词左右的短文．

三班的同学进行了一场有关英语学习的讨论。讨论的题目是：学习英语要不要从儿童时

期开始?请你根据下表中的提示写一篇短文。介绍讨论的情况。

一些同学认为

另一些同学认为

1．应从儿童时期开始学习英语

2．儿童时期记忆力好，可以记住很多单词

3．能为以后的英语学习打下坚实的基础

1．不应从儿童时期开始学习英语

2．儿童时期既要学汉语拼音(Chinese

  pinyin)又要学英语，易混淆

3．会影响汉语学习和今后英语学习

讨论未取得一致意见

  The students of class 3have recently had a discussion about whether it is necessary to start learning English from childhood.

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