甘肃省甘谷第一中学2018_2019学年高一英语下学期子才班选拔考试试题.docx

甘肃省甘谷第一中学2018-2019学年高一英语下学期子才班选拔考试试题第一部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分40分)第一节 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。AWelcome to Holker Hall & GardensVisitor InformationHow to Get to HolkerBy Car: Follow brown signs on A590 from J36, M6. Approximate travel times: Windermere-20 minutes, Kendal-25 minutes, Lancaster-45 minutes, Manchester-1 hour 30 minutes.By Rail: The nearest station is Cark-in-Cartmel with trains to Carnforth, Lancaster and Preston for connections to major cities & airports.Opening TimesSunday-Friday (closed on Saturday)11:00 am-4:00pm, 30th March-2nd November.Admission ChargesHall & GardensGardensAdults:12.008.00Groups:9.005.50Special EventsProducers Market 13th AprilJoin us to taste a variety of fresh local food and drinks. Meet the producers and get some excellent recipe ideas.Holker Garden Festival 30th May The event celebrates its 22nd anniversary with a great show of the very best of gardening, making it one of the most popular events in gardening.National Garden Day 28th August Holker once again opens its gardens in aid of the disadvantaged. For just a small donation you can take a tour with our garden guide.Winter Market 8th NovemberThis is an event for all the family. Wander among a variety of shops selling gifts while enjoying a live music show and nice street entertainment.1. How long does it probably take a tourist to drive to Holker from Manchester?A.20 minutes.B.25 minutes.C.45 minutes.D.90 minutes.2.How much should a member of a tour group pay to visit to Hall & Gardens?A.l2.00. B. 9.00.C. 8.00. D. 5.50.3.Which event will you go to if you want to see a live music show? A. Producers Market. B. Holker Garden Festival.C. National Garden Day.D. Winter Market.B Life can be so wonderful, full of adventure and joy. It can also be full of challenges, setbacks (挫折) and heartbreaks. Whatever our circumstances, we generally still have dreams, hopes and desiresthat little something more we want for ourselves and our loved ones. Yet knowing we can have more can also create a problem, because when we go to change the way we do things, up come the old patterns and pitfalls（陷阱） that stopped us from seeking what we wanted in the first place. This tension between what we feel we can have and what were seemingly able to have is the niggling （烦人的）suffering, the anxiety we feel. This is where we usually think its easier to just give up. But were never meant to let go of the part of us that knows we can have more. The intelligence behind that knowing is usthe real us. Its the part that believes in life and its possibilities. If you drop that, you begin to feel a little dead inside because youre dropping “you. So, if we have this capability but somehow life seems to keep us stuck, how do we break these patterns? Decide on a new course and make one decision at a time. This is good advice for a new adventure or just getting through todays challenges. While, deep down, we know we can do it, our mindor the minds of those close to ususually says we cant. That isnt a reason to stop, its just the mind, that little man or woman on your shoulder, trying to talk you out of something again. It has done it many times before. Its all about starting simple and doing it now. Decide and act before overthinking. When you do this you may feel a little, or large, release from the jail of your mind and youll be on your way.4.It can be inferred from the first two paragraphs that we should_ .A. slow down and live a simple lifeB. be careful when we choose to changeC. stick to our dreams under any circumstancesD. be content with what we already have5.What is the key to breaking the old patterns?A. To focus on every detail. B. To decide and take immediate action.C. To listen to those close to us. D. To think twice before we act.6.Which of the following best explains the underlined part in the last paragraph?A. Escape from your punishment B. Realization of your dreams.C. Freedom from your tension. D. Reduction of your expectations.7.What does the author intend to tell us?A. Its easier than we think to get what we want.B. Its important to learn to accept sufferings in life.C. Its impractical to change our way of thinking.D. Its harder than we expect to follow a new course.C Reading poems is not exactly an everyday activity for most people. In fact, many people never read a poem once they get out of high school. It is worth reminding ourselves that this has not always been the case in America. In the nine-tenth century, a usual American activity was to sit by the fireside in the evening and read poems aloud. It is true that there was no television at the time, nor movie theaters, nor World Wide Web, to provide diversion. However, poems were a source of pleasure, of self - education, of connection with other people or with the world beyond one s own community. Reading them was a social act as well as an individual one, and perhaps even more social than individual. Writing poems to share with friends and relations was, like reading poems by the fireside, another way in which poetry has a place in everyday life. How does things change now? Why are most Americans no longer comfortable with poetry , and why do most people today think that a poem has nothing to tell them and that they can do well without poems? There are, I believe, three factors: poets, teachers, and we ourselves. Of these, the least important is the third: the world surrounding the poem has betrayed (背叛) us more than we have betrayed the poem. Early in the twentieth century, poetry in English headed into an unfavorable direction to the reading of poetry. Readers decided that poems were not for the fireside or the easy chair at night, and that they belonged where other difficult-to-read things belonged. Poets failed the reader, so did teachers. They want their students to know something about the skills of a poem, they want their students to see that poems mean something. Yet what usually occurs when teachers push these concerns on their high school students is that young people decide poems are unpleasant crossword puzzles(猜词游戏).8. Reading poems is thought to be a social act in the nineteenth century because_. A. it built a link among people B. it helped unite a community C. it was a source of self- education D. it was a source of pleasure9. The underlined word “diversion” most probably means “_”.A. concentration B. change C. amusements D. stories10. According to the passage, what is the main cause of the great gap between readers and poetry?A. Students are becoming less interested in poetry.B. Students are poorly educated in high school.C. TV and the Internet are more attractive than poetry.D. Poems have become difficult to understand.11. In the last paragraph, the writer questions(质疑)_.A. the difficulty in studying poems B. the way poems are taught in schoolC. students wrong ideas about poetry D. the techniques used in writing poemDHow does an ecosystem(生态系统)work? What makes the populations of different species the way they are? Why are there so many flies and so few wolves? To find an answer, scientists have built mathematical models of food webs, noting who eats whom and how much each one eats. With such models, scientists have found out some key principles operating in food webs. Most food webs, for instance, consist of many weak links rather than a few strong ones. When a predator(掠食动物)always eats huge numbers of a single prey(猎物), the two species are strongly linked; when a predator lives on various species, they are weakly linked. Food webs may be dominated by many weak links because that arrangement is more stable over the long term. If a predator can eat several species, it can survive the extinction(灭绝)of one of them. And if a predator can move on to another species that is easier to find when a prey species becomes rare the switch allows the original prey to recover. The weak links may thus keep species from driving one another to extinction. Mathematical models have also revealed that food webs may be unstable, where small changes of top predators can lead to big effects throughout entire ecosystems. In the 1960s, scientists proposed that predators at the top of a food web had a surprising amount of control over the size of populations of other species-including species they did not directly attack. And unplanned human activities have proved the idea of top-down control by top predators to be true. In the ocean, we fished for top predators such as cod on an industrial scale, while on land, we killed off large predators such as wolves. These actions have greatly affected the ecological balance. Scientists have built an early-warning system based on mathematical models. Ideally, the system would tell us when to adapt human activities that are pushing an ecosystem toward a breakdown or would even allow us to pull an ecosystem back from the borderline. Prevention is key, scientists says because once ecosystems pass their tipping point(临界点), it is remarkably difficult for them to return. 12. What have scientists discovered with the help of mathematical models of food webs？ A. The living habits of species in food webs.B. The rules governing food webs of the ecosystems.C. The approaches to studying the species in the ecosystems.D. The differences between weak and strong links in food webs.13. What will happen if the populations of top predators in a food web greatly decline？ A. The prey species they directly attack will die out. B. The species they indirectly attack will turn into top predators. C. The living environment of other species will remain unchanged. D. The populations of other species will experience unexpected changes. 14. What conclusion can be drawn from the examples in Paragraph 4？ A. Uncontrolled human activities greatly upset ecosystems. B. Rapid economic development threatens animal habitats. C. Species of commercial value dominate other species. D. Industrial activities help keep food webs stable. 15. How does an early-warning system help us maintain the ecological balance？ A. By getting illegal practices under control. B. By stopping us from killing large predators. C. By bringing the broken-down ecosystems back to normal. D. By signaling the urgent need for taking preventive action. 第二节 （共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项. The Science of Risk-SeekingSometimes we decide that a little unnecessary danger is worth it because when we weigh the risk and the reward, the risk seems worth taking. 16 Some of us enjoy activities that would surprise and scare the rest of us. Why? Experts say it may have to do with how our brains work.The reason why any of us take any risks at all might have to do with early humans. Risk-takers were better at hunting, fighting, or exploring. 17 As the quality of risk-taking was passed from one generation to the next, humans ended up with a sense of adventure and a tolerance for risk.So why arent we all jumping out of airplanes then? Well, even 200,000 years ago, too much risk-taking could get one Killed. A few daring survived, though, along with a few stay-in-the-cave types. As a result, humans developed a range of character types that still exists today. So maybe you love car racing, or maybe you hate it. 18 No matter where you are on the risk-seeking range, scientists say that your willingness to take risks increases during your teenage years. 19 To help you do that, your brain increases your hunger for new experiences. New experiences often mean taking some risks, so your brain raises your tolerance for risk as well. 20 For the risk-seekers, a part of the brain related to pleasure becomes active, while for the rest of us, a part of the brain related to fear becomes active.As experts continue to study the science of risk-seeking, well continue to hit the mountains, the waves or the shallow end of the pool.A. It all depends on your character.B. Those are the risks you should jump to take.C. Being better at those things meant a greater chance of survival.D. Thus, these well-equipped people survived because they were the fittest.E. This is when you start to move away from your family and into the bigger world.F. However, we are not all using the same reference standard to weigh risks and rewards.G. New brain research suggests our brains work differently when we face a nervous situation.第二部分 语言知识运用（共两节， 满分65）第一节 完形填空（共30小题；21-40每小题1.5分，4150每小题1分，满分40分）阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）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。AFifteen years ago, I took a summer vacation in Lecce in southern Italy. After climbing up a hill for a panoramic (全景的) view of the blue sea, white buildings and green olive trees, I paused to catch my _21_ and then positioned myself to take the best photo of this panorama. Unfortunately, just as I took out my camera, a woman approached from behind, and _22_herself right in front of my _23_. Like me, this woman was here to stop, sigh and appreciate the view. _24_as I was, after about 15 minutes, my camera scanning the sun and reviewing the shot I would _25_ take, I grew frustrated. Was it too much to ask her to _26_ so I could take just one picture of the landscape? Sure, I could have asked her, but something _27_me from doing so. She seemed so _28_in her observation. I didnt want to mess with that. Another 15 minutes passed and I grew more _29_ The woman was still there. I decided to take the photo _30_. And now when I look at it, I think her _31_in the photo is what makes the image _32_. The landscape, beautiful on its own, somehow comes to life and breathes _33_ this woman is engaging with it. This photo, with the _34_ beauty that unfolded before me and that woman who “_35_” it, now hangs on a wall in my bedroom. What would she think if she knew that her figure is captured (捕捉) and _36_on some strangers bedroom wall? A bedroom, after all, is a very private space, in which some woman I dont even know has been immortalized (使永存). In some ways, she has been _37_ in my house. Perhaps we all live in each others spaces. Perhaps this is what photos are for: to _38_us that we all appreciate beauty, that we all share a common _39_ for pleasure, for connection, for something that is greater than us. This photo is a reminder, a captured moment, an unspoken _40_ between two women, separated only by a thin square of glass.21. A. sight. B. breath C. way D. attention22. A. planted B. found C. lost. D. enjoyed23. A. concern B. photo C. view D. direction24. A. Cautious B. Curious. C .Casual D. Patient25. A. eventually B. randomly. C .extremely D. hurriedly26. A. back away B. go over C. move along D. stay out27. A. caught B. sent C .got D. prevented28. A. anxious B. content C. quiet D. confident29. A. excited B. bored C. worried D. confused30. A. anyway B. somehow C. instead D. indeed31. A. beauty B. behavior C. determination D. presence32. A. puzzling B. disappointing C. interesting D. boring33. A. unless B. because C. although D. until34. A. strange B. regrettable C. distant D. unique35. A. ruined B. created C. missed D. discovered36. A. protectedB observed C. frozen D. drawn37. A. hanging B .living C. shining D. wandering38. A. promise B tell C. convince D. remind39. A. respect B. plan C. desire D. sense40. A. conversationB. result C. trust D. loveBDisneyland opened in 1955 and instantly became the worlds most recognizable and popular theme park. This was the only Disney theme park visited by Walt Disney, who died in 1966. Disneyland is _41_ in the south of Los Angeles, California. You may get there by air or by bus.Disneyland _42_most of its visitors from _43_. So avoid weekends and school vacations to get the _44_ waits. The period before or after Christmas Day is the busiest of the _45_，with the park often holding more extra guests each day. Whenever you visit, _46_ early about an hour _47_ the opening timeto get the popular attractions before crowds _48_.Disneyland also sells tickets online, but does not allow you to print them at home. So youll have to order far enough _49_ for them to arrive by mail. Tickets _50_also be available through your local auto club, Disney Store or your school or work activities office.41A.limited Blocated. Ccircled Dexpanded42A. pleases Borganizes Cdraws Dbenefits43A. villagers Bforeigners Cstudents Dlocals44A. shortest Bbusiest Clongest Dbiggest45A .time Bweek Cday Dyear46A. leave Bplan Carrive Dbook47A .after Buntil Cpast Dbefore48A. avoid Bform Cbreak Dcombine49A .in advance Bin case Cin order Din turn50A. ought to Bmust Cwill Dmay第二节 语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满