甘肃省天水市2016_2017学年高一英语下学期期末第三次考试试题201707210364.doc
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1、甘肃省天水市2016-2017学年高一英语下学期期末(第三次)考试试题第I卷第一部分 阅读理解 (共两节,满分30分)第一节 (共10小题,每小题2分,满分20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,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。ADo you want to get home from work knowing you have made a real difference in someones life? If yes, dont care about sex or age! Come and join us, thenyoull make it!Positi
2、on: Volunteer Social Care Assistant (No Pay with Free Meals)Place: Manchester Hours: Part TimeWe arc now looking for volunteers to support people with learning disabilities to live active lives! Only 4 days left. Dont miss the chance of lending your warm hands to help others!Role:You will provide pe
3、ople with learning disabilities with all aspects of their daily lives. You will help them to develop new skills. You will help them to protect their rights and their safety. But your primary concern is to let them know they are valued.Skills and Experience Required:You will have the right values and
4、 great listening skills. You will be honest and patient. You will have the ability to drive a car and to communicate in fluent written and spoken English since youll have to help those people with different learning disabilities. Previous care-related experience will be a great advantage for you.1.
5、What does the underlined part mean?A. Youll make others lives more meaningful with this jobB. Youll arrive home just in time from this jobC. Youll earn a good salary from this jobD. Youll succeed in getting this job2. The volunteers primary responsibility is to help people with learning disabilities
6、_.A. to get some financial support B. to properly protect themselvesC. to learn some new living skills D. to realize their own importance3. Which of the following can first be chosen as a volunteer?A. The one who can drive a carB. The one who has done similar work beforeC. The one who has patience t
7、o listen to othersD. The one who can use English to communicateBPeople who have lost the ability to understand or use words due to brain damage are called aphasics(失语症患者).Such patients can be extremely good at something else.From the changing expressions on speakers faces and the tones of their voic
8、es,they can tell lies from truths.Doctors studying the human brain have given a number of examples of this amazing power of aphasics.Some have even compared this power to that of a dog with an ability to find out the drugs hidden in the baggage.Recently,scientists carried out tests to see if all tha
9、t was said about aphasics was true.They studied a mixed group of people.Some were normal;others were aphasics.It was proved that the aphasics were far ahead of the normal people in recognizing false speechesin most cases,the normal people were fooled by words,but the aphasics were not. Some years ag
10、o,Dr.Oliver Sacks wrote in his book about his experiences with aphasics.He mentioned a particular case in a hospital.Some aphasics were watching the president giving a speech on TV.Since the president had been an actor earlier,making a good speech was no problem for him.He was trying to put his feel
11、ings into every word of his speech.But his way of speaking had the opposite effect on the patients.They didnt seem to believe him.Instead,they burst into laughter.The aphasics knew that the president did not mean a word of what he was saying.He was lying! Many doctors see aphasics as people who are
12、not completely normal because they lack the ability to understand words.However,according to Dr.Sacks,they are more gifted than normal people.Normal people may get carried away by words.Aphasics seem to understand human expressions better,though they cannot understand words. 4.What is so surprising
13、about aphasics?A.They can fool other people. B.They can tell whether people are lying.C.They can understand language better. D.They can find out the hidden drugs.5.How did the scientists study aphasics?A.By asking them to watch TV together. B.By organizing them into acting groups.C.By comparing them
14、 with normal people. D.By giving them chances to speak on TV. 6.What do we learn from this text?A.What ones says reflects how one feels. B. Aphasics have richer feelings than others.C.Normal people often tell lies in their speeches. D. People poor at one thing can be good at another. CSix years ago
15、at the age of 35,I suddenly decided I wanted to learn the cello(大提琴).Straight away I rented an instrument and appeared before Wendell Margrave,professor of musical instruction.You can be as good as you want to be,Margrave said rather mysteriously.On a piece of paper he drew the notes E and F.He show
16、ed me where to put my fingers on the neck of the cello and how to draw the bow.Then he entered my name in his book: 10 am,Tuesday.Tuesday followed Tuesday,and soon it was spring.Thus began my voyage out of ignorance and into the dream.E-F,E-F,we played togetherand moved on to G.It was a happy time.I
17、 was again becoming something new,and no longer trapped as the same person.Surely the most terrible recognition of middle life is that we are past changing.We do what we can already do.The cello was something I couldnt do.Yet each Tuesday this became less and less true.Riding home on the bus one sno
18、wy night and learning the score of Mozarts C-Major Quintet(莫扎特的C大调五重奏),I felt the page burst into music in my hands.I could by then more or less read a score,and was humming(哼唱)the cello line,when suddenly all five parts came together harmonically(和谐地) in my head.The fellow sitting opposite stared.I
19、 met his glance with tears,actually hearing the music in my head for the first time.Could he hear it too, perhaps?No,he got off at the next stop. As the years slipped by,my daughter grew up,playing the piano well.My goal was that she and I would one day perform together.I also wanted to perform in p
20、ublic with and for my peers,and to be secretly envied.I continued to play,to perform,but it is not the same.Before,when I heard a cello,it was all beauty and light.Now,as the TV camera gets close to Rostropovichs face,I recognize that his smile shows his incredible determination.Even for him,the cel
21、lo is a difficult instrument that doesnt respect your ambitions.I picked up my cello and practiced.As good as I wanted to be,I am as good as Im going to get.It is good enough.7.From the first two paragraphs,we can learn that_ . .A.the author already knew some cello basicsB.the author went to a cello
22、 lesson every TuesdayC.the author bought a cello after he decided to learn itD.Wendell Margrave was a famous but mysterious professor8.The author writes that it was a happy time in Paragraph 3 mainly because . A.he felt very bored with his new lifeB.it was beautiful to be able to hear the music in h
23、is mindC.Professor Margrave made learning the cello very easy for himD.he enjoyed the feelings of growth and getting closer to his dream9.From the last paragraph,it can be inferred that the author .A.put on shows with his daughterB.was determined to catch up with RostropovichC.is happy to have kept
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