湖南株洲市高三教学质量统一检测一英语试卷

Humor, if ________ properly, will help us break the ice and gain affection of others in social communication.

If you________ the failed experiences, you would not havemade such a mistake in your homework.

Taking a gap year is a good chance for students to learn skills and gain life experience, ______ them an edge in the job market.

The mixture of his improved self-confidence and never-ending efforts is ________ lies behind his rapid progress in his study.

Reading for fun means much to us and we _______ never tell where its influence stops.

The Romany prefer to move and stay in small groups________ they can protect and preserve their culture and freedom.

Happiness will be within our reach if positive thinking ________ into daily routine and becomes an important part of our world.

Ann_________ to the company for the position of senior clerk and she is waiting anxiously for the result.

It is generally acknowledged that only by having acceptance of the cultures of different countries _________ good relationships with each other.

Wherever you study after graduating from high school, _________ regular contacts with your family.

Zhuzhou offers visitors outstanding natural beauty coupled with excellent customer service, _________ makes for an unforgettable experience.

What makes tomorrow’s successful citizens_________ the ability to cope with a changing world as well as the responsibility towards community.

It was the deep love and encouragement of my teammates_________ helped me gain the greatest strength and meet the challenges in life.

Lyn gave up the chance of going abroad, but he feels he _________ a right decision.

There is no doubt that _________ a goal, one needs not only knowledge but also good personalities.

It was a terribly cold Christmas Eve with heavy snow outside. I stayed in bed, feeling upset because there wasn’t enough money to buy me the      that I’d wanted that year.
Mum came back with some snow in her hair. “Come on, Matt!” she said. “Dress      ! It’s freezing cold out tonight.”
     , I went out in the cold with Mum and climbed up the sled beside her. She pulled it around the house and then stopped in front of the woodshed(柴房). She went in and         with an armload of wood.
“I rode by Jensen’s today,” said Mum, “Little Jakey was out digging around in the snow. They’re out of wood, Matt.”
Jensen lived about two miles down the road. Her husband died 3 months ago,    three children, Jakey being only 8 years old.
We loaded the sled high with        . Then we went to the store and my mother took down some meat, a sack of flour and a smaller sack of shoes.
We rode the two miles to Jensen’s in        . All the way I wondered why Mum bought them some shoes and candy as we didn’t have much money. Jensen had closer neighbors than us. It shouldn’t have been our        .
We got to Jensen’s house and unloaded the wood as quietly as possible. Then we took the meat, flour and shoes to the door.
We      . Jensen opened the door and let us in. “We brought you a few things, Jensen,” Mum said,      the sack of flour and the meat on the table. Then Mum handed her the sack of shoes. Jensen bit her lower lip to keep it from trembling, tears welling out and down her cheeks.
“We also      a load of wood, Jensen,” Mum added. She turned to me and said: “Matt, go and bring some in.”
I wasn’t the same person when I went back out to get the wood. Just then the scarf didn’t seem      . The look on Jensen’s face and the smiles of her three children was the best Christmas gift of my life.

A．scarf B．overcoat C．shoes D．handbag

A．fashionably B．casually C．comfortably D．warmly

A．Unsteadily B．Unhurriedly C．Unwillingly D．Uncomplainingly

A．stepped away B．came out C．broke down D．fell over

A．adopting B．taking C．overlooking D．leaving

A．wood B．meat C．flour D．grass

A．surprise B．danger C．silence D．harmony

A．custom B．concern C．comment D．courage

A．signed B．chased C．knocked D．hesitated

A．taking away B．getting back C．giving out D．putting down

A．prepared B．bought C．borrowed D．required

A．expensive B．important C．ordinary D．available

Leaving for college can be a big challenging learning experience. Maybe this is the first time for you to live with peoplearen’t your family members. Because of the differences in values and personalities, unavoidably, conflicts may easily arise betweenroommates.
So how can you develop a successful roommate relationshipfewer conflicts? First, lose your shyness open up to your roommates by talking about the common interest, which can help you learn each other’s different cultural or social backgrounds., be flexible with your roommatesand adjust your thinking to new situations. Don’t get stuck with thinking patterns and habits that you bring from home. At last, your roommate does something that bothers you, don’t let turn into a bad situation.Try to work together to reach a compromise thatcan both live with.
In a word, a harmonious roommate relationship lies in the friendly communication, mutual respectand acceptance of others’ differences.

Karl Fleming joined the military because he needed a change in his life. He had a successful career with a shipping company but he wanted to do something more. He found that something in the U.S. army. Fleming began his service in 2009 and never looked back.
A few years later, Fleming volunteered to go to Afghanistan. There, he worked as a bodyguard for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He enjoyed it, except for the almost-nightly rocket attacks. Karl was never hit directly by a rocket, but he didn’t need to be to feel its effects. The rockets caused severe shaking, shaking so bad that Fleming was left with many injuries. He was also diagnosed with concussions(脑震荡) and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder(PTSD).
Fleming said he was down but not out. Once he returned from Afghanistan, Fleming underwent one test after another. At first, Fleming said he thought he could recover or be able to return to duty and realize his dream of becoming an officer. But then came the news he had never imagined: Fleming would never be an officer because he was too injured to continue.
Fleming said he was depressed after learning his military career was over. Add that to the memory loss, extreme anxiety and the many painful medical procedures he was already experiencing. He rarely ventured outside on the weekend. Instead, he preferred to sleep in. All that changed, however, with Fleming’s service dog, Kuchar.
Fleming said he had heard dogs could help people suffering from PTSD, so he started doing research. Karl eventually selected K9s for Warriors, which is where he met Kuchar, a yellow lab. Fleming and Kuchar trained together for weeks, before returning to Fort Benning. K9s for Warriors provided Fleming with Kuchar and the training for free.
Life with Kuchar has been life-changing. Fleming doesn’t sleep in any more because Kuchar won’t let him. Instead, they venture out into a world Karl was once afraid of — a world for Fleming that now seems impossible to imagine without Kuchar by his side.
Karl Fleming joined the army because ___________.

From Paragraph 2, we can learn Karl Fleming was __________.

Fleming suffered from the following illnesses except ___________.

Karl Fleming recovered with the help of ___________.

The passage is mainly about Fleming’s__________.

The snow cap of Mount Kilimanjaro, famous in literature and beloved by tourists, initially formed some 11,000 years ago, but will be gone in two decades, according to researchers who say the ice fields on Africa’s highest mountain shrank by 80 percent in the past century.
Lonnie G. Thompson,one professor from Ohio State University, said measurements using modern navigation satellites show that the oldest ice layers on the famous mountain were deposited during an extremely wet period starting about 11,700 years ago.The mountain appears in literature, most notably Ernest Hemingway’s “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” and some ancient beliefs in Africa hold the mountain to be a sacred place.
But a temperature rise in recent years is destroying the 150-foot-high blocks of ice that gave Kilimanjaro its unique white cap.“The ice will be gone by about 2030,” said Thompson. The disappearing ice already has reduced the amount of water in some Tanzanian rivers and the government fears that when Kilimanjaro is bald of snow the tourists will stop coming.
“Kilimanjaro is the number one foreign currency earner for the government of Tanzania,” said Thompson. “It has its own international airport and some 20,000 tourists every year. The question is how many will come if there are no ice fields on the mountain.”
Africa was not alone in the global drought. Thompson said other records show that civilizations during this period collapsed in India, the Middle East and South America.
Researchers put markers on the ice field blocks in 1962 and Thompson said measurements using satellites show the summit of the ice has been lowered by about 56 feet in 40 years. The margin of the ice also has moved back more than six feet in the past two years, much smaller than before.
“That’s more than two meter’s worth of ice lost from a wall 164 feet (50 meters) high,” said Thompson. “That’s an enormous amount of ice.”
The snow cap of Mount Kilimanjaro ________.

According to Thompson, the disappearing of the snow may mainly influence________.

The underlined word “margin”inParagraph6 means__________.

The writer’s tone in this article is___________.

Which of the following can be the best title for this passage?

How many times a day do you check your email? When you wake up? Before bed? A dozen times in between? The technology that was supposed to simplify our lives has become the vital time-suck: the average teen spends more than seven hours a day using technological devices, plus an additional hour just text-messaging friends.
The advantage of technological devices is connectedness: email lets us respond on the go, and we are in touch with more people during more hours of the day than at any other time in history. But is it possible we’re more lonely than ever, too? That’s what MIT professor Sherry Turkle observes in her new book, Alone Together, a fascinating portrait of our changing relationship with technology. Turkle details the ways technology has redefined our comprehension of closeness and loneliness—and warns us of the danger of accepting such virtual(虚拟的) relationships in place of lasting emotional connections.
For Turkle, the biggest worry is the effect all these shallow connections have on our development. Is technology offering us the lives we want to live? “We’re texting people at a distance,” says Turkle, “We’re using lifeless objects to convince ourselves that even when we’re alone, we feel together. And then when we’re with each other, we put ourselves in situations where we are alone—constantly on our mobile devices. It’s what I call a perfect storm of confusion about what’s important in our human connections.”
What can’t be denied is that technology, whatever its faults, makes life a whole lot easier. It allows us to communicate with more people in less time and makes conversation simple. But it can also be seductive(具有诱惑性的), providing more stimulation than our natural lives. There are usually some unhealthy videos online which remove teenagers’ attention from their schoolwork. Besides, some online activities make people addicted, which occupied their daily life and affected their ability to form real-world relationships.“Technology can be more immediately satisfying than the labor of building an intimate relationship,” said one highschool student, “Every time I text, I start to have some happy feelings.”
But are any of those feelings equal to the kind we feel when engaged in real, face-to-face communication? Online, you can neglect others’ feelings. In a text message, you can avoid eye contact. A number of studies have found that this generation of teens is less sympathetic than ever. That doesn’t spell disaster, says Turkle—but，
From the first paragraph we can infer that_________.

Turkle’s new book mainly discussed________.

What worries Turkle most is that more and more people are_________.

Which of the following is True according to the passage?

What is the main purpose of the passage?

Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.
A consumercomplaint or customer complaint isan expression of dissatisfaction on a consumer’s behalf to a responsible party. It can also be described in a positive sense as a report from a consumer providing documentation about problems with a product or service.
So what are the common reasons for customer complaints? The most common complaints about retail(零售) storesfall into several aspects. First, they have to circle the filled parking lot endlessly, which is a waste of time and a test for their patience. They also can’t stand clutteredshelves, over-loaded racks, out-of-stock items and long check-out lines. Worst of all, sometimes some salespeople are rude, turning their mood into a bad one.
In fact, some modern business consultants urge businesses to view customer complaints as a gift but not a trouble.Some retailers, however,ignore complaints or deal with them dishonestly, which can cause a chain of events like bad reputation, leave theirbusiness with fewer and fewer customers. The resulting “snowball effect” can be disastrous to retailers.In the most severe cases, it can even cause companies to shut down.
Increasing competition is forcing companies to take more effective measures to satisfycustomers and better their customer service.During peak shopping hours, some moonlighting(业余兼职的) local police have been employed as parking attendants bysome retailers to solve the parking problems. Some hire flag wavers to direct customers to parking spaces that are empty. This guidance can avoid confrontation between those eyeing the same parking space.Retailers can relieve the headache by redesigning store layouts, pre-stocking sales items, hiring the cashiers with much experience, and having sales representatives on hand to answer questions.Most importantly, salespeople should be trained to deal with angry customerswith politeness.Try their best to resolve the problem if they can.
Quickly and properly solving customer complaints can help retailers smooth over issues and their business can grow and prosper.

My grandmother was a master gardener that could make anything bloom. Even me.
She spent most of her life living on a farm in the mountains of North Caroline, where she got married, raised four children, and watched the changing of the seasons. When I was 12 years old, my dad gave up working downtown and moved back to the farm to turn to gardening. I visited on weekends to keep them company.
Every time my farm chores were done, I was free to climb the mountain, singing songs and gathering flowers. Sometimes the plants scratched me. My grandmother would say: “Beauty has a price. I hope it was worth it.” I would say, “Yes, ma’am. It was.” Then I’d scratch some more. At dusk, we’d sort the flowers and make bouquets(花束): One for the living room, one for the kitchen, and three for the bedrooms.
Even then as a child, I knew that what I desired most from my grandmother was not her flowers but her time. She has been gone for decades, but sometimes when I reach down to pick a flower or pull a weed, I see her hand, not mine. I thought I’d grow up to be a gardener as well. I informed myself, someday, when my children had children，I would be a gardening grandma. Then the grandbabies started showing up, and I discovered I would much rather chase after them than go digging.
The truth is, I’m no gardener. I’m a picker, not a planter. I don’t need to plant a garden. My children are my flowers. They delight me and complete me with a beauty that is worth any price.
My grandmother and I differ in lots of ways, but from her, I do learn what a grandmother means. I also learn that I need attend to my grandbabies with time and water them with love. I hope that, one day, when they hold their first grandchild, they might see my hand.
Why did the author go to the farm on weekends?
(No more than 8 words)                                                (2 marks)
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How did the author and her grandmother deal with the collected flowers?
(No more than 12 words)                                               (3 marks)
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What did the author want most from her grandmother when she was a kid?
(No more than 4 words)                                                 (2 marks)
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What does the author learn from her grandmother?
(No more than 15 words)                                                (3 marks)
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每个人都行走在自己的路上, 有着不同的经历和收获。请你以“On my way to…”为题写一篇英语作文，向学校英语报投稿，要求包括以下内容：
1. 叙述在路上你的经历；
2. 谈谈你的收获和感想。
注意：
1. 词数不少于120个。
2. 文中不能出现可能透露考生真实身份的任何信息。