山东省微山县第二中学2019届高三英语上学期第三学段教学质量监测试题.doc
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1、- 1 -20182019 学年度上学期第三学段教学质量监测高三英语试卷注意:本试卷共 6页,满分 100分,时间 90分钟第 I卷 (共 60分)第一部分 阅读理解(共 15小题,满分 30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。 (共 20小题,满分 40分)A1. The passage includes _ parts.What is a Harvest Festival?Harvest Festival is a celebration of the food grown on the land. In Britain,
2、we have given thanks for successful harvests. We celebrate this day by singing, praying and decorating our churches with baskets of fruit and food.Harvest Festival reminds Christians of all the good things God gives them. This makes them want to share with others who are not so fortunate. In schools
3、 and in Churches, people bring food from home to a Harvest Festival Service. After the service, the food is usually given to people in need.When is Harvest Festival?Harvest festivals are traditionally held on or near the Sunday of the Harvest Moon. This is the full Moon that occurs closest to the au
4、tumn equinox (about Sept. 23). In two years out of three, the Harvest Moon comes in September, but in some years it occurs in October.History of Harvest FestivalHarvest Festival used to be celebrated at the beginning of the Harvest season. Farmers made bread from the new wheat crop and gave them to
5、their local church to thank God. Nowadays we have harvest festivals at the end of the season.The tradition of celebrating Harvest Festival in churches as we know it today began in 1843.- 2 -A. two B. three C. four D. five2. People usually celebrate Harvest Festival by _.A. hard work B. growing crops
6、 C. singing and praying D. enjoying the moon3. Which of the following is True according to the passage?A. Harvest Festival always falls on September.B. Harvest Festival means thanks and giving.C. Harvest Festival is celebrated on Sunday near September every two years.D. Harvest Festival is celebrate
7、d at the beginning of the Harvest season nowadays.BThomas Sterns Eliot was born in St.Louis, Missouri, on September 26,1888. He was raised in a family that had distinguished(区分; 辨别)Americans since colonial days. At 18 years old, T.S.Eliot entered Harvard, and after graduating he went abroad. Then he
8、 taught in a boys school briefly before spending eight years in Lioyds Bank in London.T.S.Eliot inspired the musical Cats in the 1980s from his wellknown book Old Possums Book of Practical Cats.He also wrote The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufock in 1915. After 1915, T.S.Eliot wrote such poems as Portra
9、it of a Lady.The Waste Land appeared in 1922. It was considered by many to be his most challenging work. In 1927 Thomas Sterns Eliot became a British subject(国民) and was confirmed in the Church of England.His essays, For Lancelot Andrew(1928) and his poetry, Four Quartets (1943), increasingly reflec
10、ted this association with a traditional culture. The Rock (1934), his first drama, was a pageant play. This was followed by Murder in the Cathedral( 1935 ), a play dealing with the assassination of Archbishop(主教) Thomas a Becket, who was later praised.In 1948, King George VI bestowed(给予; 赠给)the orde
11、r of Merit on T. S.Eliot, and in that same year he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. On January 4,1965 Thomas Sterns Eliot died. Another one of his poems I enjoy is Aunt Helen.- 3 -4. How many works written by TS.Eliot are mentioned in the passage?A. 7 B. 8 C. 9 D. 105. Which of the followi
12、ng is TRUE according to the passage?A. Thomas Sterns Eliot was once a teacher in a school.B. Thomas Sterns Eliot only wrote poems in his life.C. Eliot won the Nobel Prize because King George VI bestowed the order of Merit on him.D. Thomas Sterns Eliot spent eight years in London.6. What does the und
13、erlined word “assassination” mean?A. Concern B. Murder C. Attention D. Determination7. How old was Thomas Sterns Eliot when he died?A. 34 B. 39 C. 60 D. 77C Yinlan looked at the people sitting around the table and smiled with satisfaction. Everyone in her family was there her children, grandchildren
14、, and new great-grandson, just one month old. Her whole family had come to celebrate the Harvest Moon Festival. A couple days days after the Harvest Moon Festival, Yinlan died peacefully in her sleep. Her family was sad but at the same time grateful. They felt happy that they had been able to celebr
15、ate the Harvest Moon Festival with her one last time. Everyone said it was remarkable that Yinlan had died just two days after the holiday. Actually, the timing of Yinlans death was not remarkable at all. Recently sociologists (社会学家) studied the death rate among elderly Chinese women in California.
16、They discovered that the death rate drops 35 percent before the Harvest Moon Festival and then rises 35 percent again after the Harvest Moon Festival. Sociologists believe that these changes in death rate show the minds power over the body. The Harvest Moon Festival, when families gather, is - 4 -im
17、portant to elderly Chinese women. Apparently some women are able to postpone (推延) their deaths so that they can celebrate the festival one last time. The idea that people can postpone the time of their deaths is not new. Many families tell stories of a relative who held on to life until after an imp
18、ortant event. The sociologists work is important because the sociologists studied facts, not stories. The facts the drop and rise in death rates prove that people really can postpone their deaths.8. When did Yilan die?A. Before going to sleep. B. During the Harvest Moon Festival.C. Just before the H
19、arvest Moon Festival. D. Two days after the Harvest Moon Festival.9. The studies by sociologists took place in _.A. American B. China C. Yinlans home D. Festival grounds10. There are _ generations(代) in Yinlans family.A. one B. two C. three D. four11. The writer tells us the story of Yilan to let us
20、 know that _.A. the Harvest Moon Festival is an important festival B. Chinese families often get together to enjoy festival C. families are often sad during the Harvest Moon Festival D. people may be able to put off death for an important eventD Edmund Halley was an English scientist who lived over
21、200 years ago. He studied the observations of comets (彗星) which other scientists had made. The orbit of one particular comet was a very difficult mathematical(数学)problem. He could not figure it out. Neither could other scientists who dealt with such problems.However, Halley had a friend named Newton
22、, who was a brilliant mathematician. Newton thought he had already worked out that problem, but he could not find the papers on which he had done it. He told Halley that the orbit of a comet had the - 5 -shape of an ellipse (椭圆).Now Halley set to work.He figured out (解决; 计算出 ) the orbits of some of
23、the comets that had been observed by scientists.He made a surprising discovery. The comets that had appeared in the years 1531,1607, and 1682 all had the same orbit. Yet their appearances had been 75 to 76 years apart.This seemed very strange to Halley.The different comets followed the same orbit. T
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