2017河北高三上学期人教版高中英语期中考试

1. 详细信息

It is good to get in touch with your inner child from time to timeand obviously some people are willing to pay big money for the chance to do so in a proper environmentA Brooklyn-based adult preschool is charging customers between $333 and $999 for the chance to act like a kid again

At Preschool Mastermind in New York adults get to participate in show—and—tellarts—and—crafts such as finger paintgames like musical chairs and even take napsThe month-long course also has class picture day where the adults are expected to have a field trip and a parent day

30-year-old Michelle Joni Lapidosthe brain behind the adult preschoolstudied childhood education and has always wanted to be a preschool teacherShe’s always on the lookout for new ways to get people in touch with the freedom of childhoodA friend encouraged her to start the mastermind course instead

According to Candiceher blogger friendPreschool Mastermind gives adults a chance to relearn and master the things that they failed to understand as children“I realized all the significances of what we learn in preschool”said founder Michelle Joni“People come here and get in touch with their inner childIt’s magicalWe are bringing ourselves back to another placeanother time with ourselves when we are more believing in ourselvesmore confident and ready to take on the world.”

“One person’s here because they want to learn not to be so serious”Michelle said“Another's here to learn to be more confident.” She explained that most of the classes were plannedHoweverJoni added that while the planned activities were funit was often the spontaneous(自发的)moments that attracted students“It’s the things you don’t plan forthe sharing between friends and learning from each other.’’

21What is the purpose of Preschool Mastermind?

ATo give adults a chance to return to childhood

BTo help parents understand their children better

CTo provide practical training courses for teachers

DTo introduce some ways of playing with children

22What is mainly discussed about Preschool Mastermind in Paragraph 2 ?

AIts customers    BIts activities    CIts environmentDIts schedule.

23According to Candicepeople come to this program to________.

Aenjoy freedom of thinking        Brealize their childhood dreams

Cdiscover their inner abilities          Dfigure out childhood puzzles

24What do we know about Michelle Joni?

AShe used to be a preschool teacher    BShe likes to make plans in advance

CShe founded Preschool Mastermind   DShe gained confidence by sharing

2. 详细信息

 Back in 2003 an 86-year-old man drove his Buick through a crowded farmers’ market. Nine people were killed. More than fifty-four people were hurt, fourteen with serious injuries. When he finally stopped, the 86-year-old man got out his car and screamed at people to get out of the way. No alcohol or drugs were found in his system. Apparently, he was just old and confused.

This is a frightening accident, and it is not a rare one. There are many examples of elderly drivers driving into swimming pools, houses, storefronts, or worse.

In our teenage years, we all heard “driving is not a right; it’s a privilege.” That is still true, and there comes an age when driving is no longer a privilege that can be allowed. After a certain age, eyesight and dementia(痴呆) are very serious concerns. Undoubtedly, these age-related problems affect some older adults’ driving ability. By the time a person is between eighty-five and ninety years old, his or her driving privilege should be examined.

Licensing laws vary greatly from state to state, and it’s time for a national law on the maximum age limit for driving. The motivation for this law is safety. Another option is to start with laws that ban anyone over the age of eighty-five from driving after sundown, because driving conditions are not as safe as daylight hours. Still another option that may allow elderly drivers to continue driving could be new technology like a voice warning system that cautions drivers on busy streets or at traffic lights. Finally, since there are laws against driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs, shouldn’t some prescription drugs also be included? The average age of 85-year-old is undoubtedly taking at least one prescription drug daily.

The thought of an 86-year-old driver with failing eyesight running down the road in a two-ton piece of metal is unsettling to us all. Driving at an advanced age is not only challenging for the elderly drivers, but also it’s dangerous for the rest of us.

25. The first paragraph is written in order to show_________.

   A. the harm of driving at an old age             B. the importance of traffic safety

C. traffic accidents are on the rise                 D. many elderly drivers are careless

26. The author suggests that there should be new laws against driving __________.

A. over eighty-five                         B. between sunset and dawn

C. with the help of voice warning systems       D. under the influence of prescription drugs

27. The underlined word “unsettling” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to “________”.

A. disappointing     B. worrying      C. touching      D. interesting

28. Which of the following would be the best title for the text?

 A. How to keep old people safe on the road?

B. Are drivers well protected by licensing laws?

C. Should there be an age limit for elderly drivers?

D. Is driving a right or a privilege for an old person?

3. 详细信息

I first came across the concept of pay-what-you-can cafes last summer in Boone, N.C., where I ate at F.A.R.M (Feed All Regardless of Means) Café. You can volunteer to earn your meal, pay the suggested price($10) or less, or you can overpay—paying it forward for a future customer’s meal. My only regret after eating there was not having a chance to give my time. So as soon as Healthy World Café opened in York in April, I signed up for a volunteer shift(轮班).

F.A.R.M and Healthy World are part of a growing trend of community cafés. In 2003, Denise Cerreta opened the first in Salt Lake City. Cerreta now runs the One World Everybody Eats Foundation, helping others copy her pay-what-you can model.

“I think the community café is truly a hand up, not a handout,” Cerreta said. She acknowledged that soup kitchens(施粥所) have a place in society, but people typically don’t feel good about going there.

“One of the values of the community café is that we have another approach,” she said. “Everyone eats here, no one needs to know whether you volunteered, overpaid or underpaid.”

The successful cafés not only address hunger and food insecurity but also become necessary parts of their neighborhood – whether it’s a place to learn skills or hear live music. Some teach cooking to seniors; some offer free used books. Eating or working there is a reminder that we are all in this world together.

My 10 am---1pm shift at World-Healthy-Café began with the café manager – one of the two paid staff members. Our volunteer crew wasn’t the most orderly, but we managed to prepare and serve meals with a lot of laughs in between. At the end of my shift, I ordered my earned meal at the counter, together with other volunteers. After lunch, I walked out the door, with a handful of new friends, music in my head and a satisfied belly and heart.

29. What did the author do at F.A.R.M Café last summer?

A. She enjoyed a meal.                          B. She ate free of charge.

C. She overpaid for the food.                       D. She worked as a volunteer.  

30. What is the advantage of community cafés compared with soup kitchens?

A. People can have free food.            B. People can maintain their dignity.

C. People can stay as long as they like.        D. People can find their places in society.

31. Why are community cafés becoming popular in the neighborhoods?

A. They bring people true friendships.      B. They help to bring people together.

C. They create a lot of job opportunities.      D. They support local economic development.

32. How did the author feel about working at Healthy World Café?

A. It paid well.            B. It changed her.      C. It was beneficial.           D. It was easy for her.

4. 详细信息

We took a rare family road trip to the Adirondacks in late Augustand it was as refreshing and exhausting as family vacations tend to beToward the end of our long drive home, even the kids were leaning forward in their seats urging my lead foot onAt that point in a road tripeven sixty-five miles per hour feels slow. We have become numb to our speed and numb to the road signs flashing by.

My family lives on the edge of Lancaster County. Only thirty miles from homeI hit the brakesand we began to rollslowlybehind a horse-drawn carriage. We began to open our eyes againWe saw familiar green hills and the farm with the best watermelons. I rolled down the windows, and we breathed againJust-cut hay and a barn full of dairy cattle

At five miles per houryou remember what you forget at sixty-fiveYou are thinking about a placeeven when you are moving from place to place

I am a placemaker. A homemaker, too. I am a mother of a young kid at homeand also a writer and a gardenerButfor methose roles are wrapped up with the one big thing I want to do with the rest of my lifeI want to cultivate a place and share it with others

The place I make with my family is a red-brick farmhouse built in l880. It has quite a few nineteenth-century bedrooms and a few acres of landand we love nothing more than to fill them with neighbors and friends. We grow vegetables and flowerskeep a baker’s dozen of egg—laying chickensandsince we moved in three years agowe have planted  manymany trees

Living with my life’s purpose does not allow for much travel. I need to be herefeeding the chickens and watering the tomatoes. Any extra in the budgetand we spend it on trees

But I learned something at the end of our family road tripTravel can help me in the task of caring for my own placeWhen I slow down and pay attention to the road between here and theretravel tells me the connections between my place and all the other places

33What does the author try to express in the first paragraph?

AThe tiredness of her past family life  BHer disappointment at the family road trip

CThe family’s eagerness to return homeDKids’excitement at driving fast on the road

34Why did the author slow her car some miles from her home?

ABecause she made a way for a horse-drawn carriage

BBecause she enjoyed the scenery along the road

CBecause she needed a break after the long drive

DBecause she wanted to get rid of a fast-paced life

35What can be the best title of the passage?

AOn the Way Home                      BNever Travel again

CEscape from a Family Life                DLife on the Farm

5. 详细信息

The book A Big Fat Crisis: The Hidden Forces Behind Obesity and How We Can End It by Deborah Cohen, a senior natural scientist, is very popular now. __36___ But according to this book, the following are some misunderstandings of obesity or being overweight.

1. If you're obese, blame your genes.

___37__ Yet, between 1980 and 2000, the number of Americans who are obese has doubled-----too quickly for genetic factors to be responsible. At restaurants, a dollar puts more calories on our plates than ever before, because restaurant meals usually have more calories than what we prepare at home, so people who eat out more frequently have higher rates of obesity than those who eat out less.

2. If you're obese, you lack self-control.

Research shows that if we are faced with too much information, we have a tendency to make poor choices on diet. ___38___ Even the most vigilant(警觉的)people may not be good controllers of themselves.

3. __39____

Although the US Department of Agriculture estimates that fewer than 5 percent of Americans live in the "food deserts", about 65 percent of the nation's population is obese. For most of us, obesity is not related to access to more fresh fruits and vegetables, but to the choices we make in supermarkets.

3. The problem is not that we eat too much, but that we don't exercise.

Michelle Obama's "Let’s Move" campaign is based on the idea that if kids exercise more, childhood obesity rates will decrease. __40___ In fact, although a drop in work-related physical activity may explain up to 100 fewer calories burned, leisure physical activity appears to have increased.

A. Lack of access to fresh fruits and vegetables is a cause of obesity.

B. Obesity rates have increased.

C. Fresh fruits and vegetables we choose in a supermarket are related to obesity.

D. But there was no obvious decrease in physical activity levels as obesity rates climbed in the 1980s and 1990s.

E. People hold different views on obesity.

F. People benefit a lot from physical activities.

G. Our world has become so rich in food that we can be led to consume too much in ways we can't understand.

6. 详细信息

Once a farmer lost his watch in his barn, in which lots of grain was kept. The watch,    61    was a gift from his father, was very important to him and he was determined to find it.

After searching the barn for a long time, however, he gave up and asked for help from a group of children who were playing nearby. He promised to give a great reward to    62    found the watch.

   63   (hear) this, the children hurried inside the barn immediately.    64    searched everywhere but still could not find the watch buried in the grain. The farmer was about to give up  65   a little boy went up to him and asked to be given    66   second chance.

The farmer looked at him and thought, “Why not? After all, this kid looks honest.”

So the farmer sent the little boy back into the barn. After a while the little boy came out   67   the watch in his hand! The farmer,    68    (surprise) but happy, asked the boy how he succeeded where the rest had failed.

The boy replied, “I did nothing but    69    (sit) quietly and listen for the sound of the watch.”

This shows us that sometimes a peaceful mind can think    70  (well) than an excited one.

7. 详细信息

1. Nobody can go out of school on workday without the teachers’ ______(许可).

2. It is so wet there that the trees are extremely tall, some ____________ (量起来) over 90 meters.

3. He accepted the job without__________. (犹豫)

4.The hostess had the_____________(请柬) delivered a week before the party.

5. Read the __________(说明书) on the medicine thoroughly.

6. He thought his marketing plan was perfect, but _____________(正相反), it was not and it failed.

7. 有了科学的农业生产方法,他们的土地产量更高。

_______________ scientific farming methods, they have been able to use less farmland to produce more.

(equip短语表达

8.________________(令我满意的是) I have passed the examination.

9. The workers in the factory are paid _______________. 这个工厂的工人按小时计酬。

10. The manager was delighted to see so many new products _________ (develop) after great effort.

8. 详细信息

In the week before Christmas, one Delta airlines pilot gave a sad Arizona family a gift that no one else could.

Father of three, Jay short died after a ___41_with lung cancer Dec, 16th. Three days later, his family was attempting to _42___to Tennessee for the funeral scheduled for the next morning. But a 90-munite _43__at the Phoenix airport __44__them only seven minutes to make their connecting flight in Minnesota. “This was our __45__chance to say goodbye to my dad, and if we hadn’t __46___the flight, we would have missed the ____47__.” Jay’s daughter said. But when they arrived at the gate, the last plane of the day to Memphis was __48__away from the gate.

“My son was ___49___his arms and pleading with the pilot through the floor-to ceiling windows.” said Marcia, “I was ___50__ and comforting my girls who were also in tears when the phone rang, ___51___us that the pilot was returning to the gate to let us ___52__the plane.” Captain Adam Cohen saw the _53____on their faces through the gate’s windows and decided to turn the plane around. Airline experts pointed out Cohen could have __54___gotten into trouble for the ___55__decision, but Delta ___56_the move instead. “This is __57____we’ll take with us, knowing we made a ____58____.” confirmed Adam.

 This story is an __59___that we can bring humanity back to society. Show care and it may ___60___you how far that you go.

41.A. competition       B. symptom          C. connection          D. battle

42. A ride          B run              C fly                   D. drive

43.A. wait          B. delay                C. interval                 D. sleep

44.A. spared            B. offered          C. brought              D. left

45.A. last          B. slight               C. rare                     D. proper

46.A. followed      B. caught           C. booked              D. confirmed

47.A. doctor            B. meeting          C. polite                   D. funeral

48. A. keeping      B. bringing             C. pulling              D. taking

49.A. raising           B. waving           C folding               D. crossing

50.A. struggling        B. shouting             C. crying               D. praying

51.A. advising      B. informing            C. warning              D. instructing

52.A. land          B. guide                C. change               D. board

53.A. appreciation      B. satisfaction         C. desperation          D. caution

54.A. easily            B. merely           C. optionally               D. deliberately

55. A. careless         B. unusual          C. selfless                 D. unwise

56.A. resisted      B. opposed              C. praised              D. sponsored

57.A. nothing       B. something           C. anything                 D. everything

58.A. difference        B. change           C. promise              D. deal

59.A. activity          B. event                C. incident                 D. evidence

60. A. surprise         B. panic            C. disappoint              D. Embarrass

9. 详细信息

短文中共有10处语言错误,每行中最多两处错误。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加:在此处加一个漏字符号(∧),并在其下面写出增加的词; 删除:把多余的词用斜线()划掉;

修改:在错的词下划一横线,并在其下面写出修改后的词。

注意:1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;

2.只允许修改10处,多者(从十一处起)不计分。

My parents decided try a new Western restaurant last weekend, so I went with them. The evening started well and the menu looks good. I had soup with my starter but the waiter didn't bring a spoon so it was getting a bit cold after I could eat it. Then, for our main course, I had a piece of beef. Besides, I couldn't cut the beef because of my knife wasn't very good. For my dessert I had a apple pie but I didn't have a fork or a spoon so I ate them with my fingers! What a terribly experience!

10. 详细信息

假定你是李华,你的外教Mr. Pick回国前向你推荐了American School Life网站,希望你借此提高英语水平。请你用英语给他写一封电子邮件,告诉他你的收获,要点如下:
1.
表达思念;
2.
上网收获;
3.
表示感激。
注意:1. 词数100词左右;
      2.
可适当发挥,以使行文连贯;
      3.
开头和结尾已为你写好,不计入总词数。 
Dear Mr. Pick,
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
                                                               Yours,
                                                               Li Hua