广东深圳市高三第一次调研考试英语试卷

It is generally agreed that a good student must be able to concentrate for a reasonable time on a written text, yet most students are given very little help to practice this skill. Almost all classroom reading is    into minutes of reading and therefore it is no wonder that a number of students have    in this field.
If you have a problem with    ,you must first examine the conditions in which you work. Lighting can be a problem: too many readers put up with    lighting conditions. If this is a problem, and you don’t have a reading lamp, try a strong bulb(灯泡), read near a window in day time and always avoid reading in your own shadow.    the light should come from overhead or over your shoulder. Reflective surfaces should be avoided. You should also    excessive contrast (过度对比) caused by using a reading lamp as the only    of light as this will cause great tiredness and probably eye injury.
A second reason for poor concentration is the    of motivation, that is, an absence of any    sense of purpose. If this is the cause, you will almost    be bored by the text. Be sure that you keep your    in mind during your reading so that you know you should also adopt some specific techniques—such as making notes from your reading—to aid your concentration.
If you play the role of a    receiver of information, simply concentrating on absorbing everything you read, you will    that your mind is overloaded, confused by the material. Then you should take a more active approach. Enter into a    with the text, pausing to reflect on what you read, and     what you find. That’ll be good for reading and comprehension.

A．forced B．driven C．admitted D．broken

A．problems B．abilities C．advantages D．mistakes

A．instruction B．communication C．concentration D．appreciation

A．good B．poor C．strong D．bright

A．Ideally B．Optionally C．Deliberately D．Cheerfully

A．promote B．ensure C．avoid D．increase

A．source B．grade C．aspect D．system

A．supply B．concern C．awareness D．lack

A．abnormal B．clear C．careful D．humorous

A．carefully B．strangely C．certainly D．naturally

A．objectives B．requirements C．memories D．considerations

A．sensitive B．relative C．conservative D．passive

A．forget B．doubt C．find D．believe

A．quarrel B．dialogue C．battle D．connection

A．refusing B．demanding C．receiving D．questioning

I seldom thought I had a passion. I would sit before the TV all day, thinking  nothing but the next shadow. It was not long ago that I first learned how important having a passion is to life.
One day I went with Mum to drop my sister off at the gym. Then, Mum stopped at a red light, someone on the roadside caught my eyes. It was a man (dress) in rags, homeless. That didn’t interest me, for I (see) many like him before.
But he man wasn’t sitting down with a sad (express). He had a radio in his hand and was dancing (merry) to the music. The radio seemed to be the most precious thing he had.
“Mum, why does that man have a radio even though he’s homeless?” I asked.
“He bought ,” she replied.
“But if he’s homeless, why doesn’t he use the money to buy food or clothes? He wasted it on something he doesn’t need.”
“Well, Sarah, sometimes food and clothes aren’t only important things. We need happiness, too.”
“I see.” The man must care too much about music, so he bought a radio instead of food and clothes. I realized that happiness is the key to life. it, there’s nothing to look forward to. A passion gives a person the happiness they need to keep going!

One windy spring day, I observed young people having fun using the wind to fly their kites. Multicolored creations of varying shapes and sizes filled the skies like beautiful birds dashing and dancing in the exciting atmosphere above the earth. As the strong winds gusted against the kites, a string kept them in check.
Instead of blowing away with the wind, they arose against it to achieve great heights. They shook and pulled, but the controlling string and the clumsy tail kept them in tow(牵引), facing upward and against the wind. As the kites struggled and trembled against the string, they seemed to say, “Let me go! Let me go! I want to be free!” They flew beautifully even as they fought the forced restriction of the string. Finally, one of the kites succeeded in breaking loose. “Free at last,” it seemed to say. “Free to fly with the wind.”
Yet freedom from control simply put it at the mercy of an unsympathetic gentle wind. It flew ungracefully to the ground and landed in a twisted mass of weeds and string against a dead bush. “Free at last”. Free to lie powerless in the dirt, to be blown helplessly along the ground, and to settle down lifeless against the first roadblock.
How much like kites we sometimes are. There always exist misfortunes and restrictions, rules to follow from which we can grow and gain strength. Prohibition is a necessary counterpart to the winds of opposition. Some of us pulled at the rules so hard that we never fly fast to reach the heights we might have obtained. If we keep all the commandment(戒律), we will never rise high enough to get our tails off the ground.
Let us each rise to the great heights, recognizing that some of the prohibitions are actually the steady force that helps us climb and achieve.
In the passage the writer watched _______.

What enables a kite fly gracefully in the sky according to the story?

What didn’t happen to the freed kite?

What is the purpose of the author in writing this passage?

Which of the following is the best title of the passage?

Our most commonly held code for success is broken. Conventional wisdom holds that if we work hard we will be more successful, and if we are more successful, then we’ll be happy. If we can just find that great job, win that next promotion, lose those five pounds, happiness will follow. But recent discoveries in the field of positive psychology have shown that this code is actually backward: Happiness fuels success, not the other way around. When we are positive, our brains become more engaged, creative, motivated, energetic, and productive at work. This discovery has been repeatedly borne out by rigid research in psychology and neuroscience(神经学), management studies, and the bottom lines of organizations around the globe.
In The Happiness Advantage, Shawn Achor, who spent over a decade living, researching, and lecturing at Harvard University, draws on his own research—including one of the largest studies of happiness and potential at Harvard and others at companies like UBS to fix this broken code. Using stories and case studies from his work with CEOs of Fortune 500 in 42 countries, Achor explains how we can reprogram our brains to become more positive in order to gain a competitive ability at work.
Based on seven practical, actionable principles that have been tried and tested everywhere from classrooms to boardrooms, stretching from Argentina to Zimbabwe, he shows us how we can capitalize on the Happiness Advantage to improve our performance and maximize our potential.
A must-read for everyone trying to stand out in a world of increasing workloads and stress, The Happiness Advantage isn’t only about how to become happier at work. It’s about how to acquire the benefits of a happier and more positive mode of thinking to achieve the extraordinary in our work and in our lives.
Which of the following is the traditional code for success?

What do we know about the new discovery in paragraph 1?

Why did the writer write the book The Happiness Advantages?

The underlined phrase “capitalize on” in paragraph 3 is closes in meaning to ____

What is the purpose of the writer in writing the passage?

If you are a sleep deprived(被剥夺) teacher, you may not be aware of the term woodpeckering(啄木鸟式点头), but you’ve probably done it. It happens the day following a bad night’s sleep. You’re sitting in a long meeting and you can barely keep your eyes open, so you support your head up with your hand. Next thing you know, you are moving your sleeping head back to its upright position. Do this a few times and you are woodpeckering.
I thought I knew sleep deprivation when I did my medical internship(实习) in hospital. That year I frequently went 36 hours with no sleep. When I finished my stay in neurology(神经内科), I welcomed the promise of full nights of sleep ever after. It went pretty well for the next 10 years until I became a school teacher and experienced a whole new level of sleep deprivation.
Teachers’ working hours go far beyond the 8 am to 5 pm schedule of kids in school. There are hours spent at staff meetings, correcting homework, preparing for the next day- and then there is the worrying. What I did in a hospital emergency room required no more intensive mental energy than what is need to keep 30 kids attentive enough to learn what I was teacher.
Good teachers are like magicians keeping a dozen balls in the air to come at right time, with alarm set for 6 am to finish grading papers, memories of the day that’s gone- including the students who didn’t understand something, forgot their lunch or were embarrassed by wrong answers. All these will become sleep-resistant barriers. And also with some financial stress, you’ll have a cycle of insomnia(失眠) with unwelcome consequences.
With inadequate sleep comes irritability(易怒), forgetfulness, lower tolerance of even minor annoyances, and less efficient organization and planning. These are the very mental useless that teachers need to meet the challenges of the next day. In wanting to do a better job the next day, the brain keeps bringing up the worries that deny the rest it needs.
After a bad night’s sleep, usually the direct effect for the next day is to ______.

The writer’s new level of sleep deprivation began since he _____.

From paragraph 3 we can infer that ____.

Good teachers’ sleep problems are mainly due to the _____.

What does the writer really want to tell us in the last paragraph?

An absolute description of the threat hanging over the world’s mammals, reptiles, amphibians(不如、爬行、两栖动物) and other life forms has been published by the well-known scientific journal, Nature. A special analysis carried out by the journal indicates that an astonishing 41% of all amphibians on the planet now face extinction while 26% of mammal species and 13% of birds are similarly threatened.
Many species are already critically endangered and lose to extinction, including the Sumatran elephant, Amur leopard and mountain gorilla. But also in danger of vanishing for the wild, it now appears, are animals that are currently rated as merely being endangered.
In each case, the finger of blame points directly at human activites The continuing spread of agriculture is destroying million of hectares of wild habitats(栖息地)every year, leaving animals without homes, while the introduction of newly-come species, often helped by humans, is also damaging native populations. At the same time, pollution and overfishing are destroying ocean ecosystems.
“Habitat destruction, pollution or overfishing either skill off wild creatures and plants or leaves them badly weakened,” said Derek Tittensor, an ocean ecologist at the World Conservation Monitoring Centre in Cambridge. “The trouble is that in coming decades, the additional threat of worsening climate change will become more and more common and could then kill off these survivors.”
The problem, according to Nature, is worsened because of the huge gaps in scientists knowledge about the planet’s biodiversity. Evaluations of the total number of species of animals and plants alive vary from 2 million to 50 million. In addition, evaluations of current rates of species’ disappearances vary from 500 to 36, 000 a year. “That is the real problem we face,” added Tittensor. “The scale of uncertainty is huge.”
In the end, however, the data indicate that the world is heading cruelty towards a mass extinction-which is defined as one involving a loss of 75% of species or more. This could arrive in less than a hundred years or could take a thousand, depending on extinction rates.
What’s the main idea of the first two paragraphs?

The direct reason for the extinction of some species is _____.

From paragraph 4 we know that another future threat is ______.

What is the real problem we are facing now according to paragraph 5?

What does “This” in the last sentence refer to _____?

Community Development Assistance: volunteer for community school assistance in Jaco, Costa Rica! Volunteer activities with this program range from: visiting local schools to conduct art or science activities, assisting with the mobile library project to provide library services to children in nearby towns.
B
Association For Human Rights: through this project you’ll volunteer with an association for human rights, which advocates and educates on behalf of Costa Rican children and youth. The organization is to protect rights for all people, especially children and adolescents, who have been victims of violation of their fundamental rights.
C
Enjoy volunteer in Wild Animal Rescue Center in the Amazon of Ecuador with ECO VOLUNTEER UP(Ecuadorian organization) low cost volunteer program, you will feed animals, taking care of them, cleaning cages, planting fruits and vegetable and different activities. Your experience will be the best of your life.
D
Volunteers will be working in the school with the staff teaching in the school. They will be organizing homework, class arrangements, collecting and distributing books to students and making sure they are silent during class time. They will give assignments and mark, and help children to concentrate during lessons.
E
English Volunteers for Change, is looking for volunteers ready to make a lasting impact in Costa Rica! Our program is unique as we provide free English classes where there is an immediate need to learn the language. Our volunteer teachers offer classes to children in rural communities, tourism communities, public schools, as well as organizaitons.
F
Help save endangered sea turtles in Osa Peninsula, Costa Rita!
Volunteers will assist our scientists and researchers in: collecting data on population structure, genetic origin and in-water habitats of endangered sea turtles, hands-on experience in conservation efforts, environmental education and community projects.
阅读以下志愿者信息，然后匹配与上面相关的志愿者工作。
Mrs. Gibson once worked in a kindergarten. She loves volunteer work and loves little kids, so she is looking for an assistant teacher to help teachers organize classes, correct students’ homework and so on.
Irene is an art student, who is fond of doing volunteer work. From time to time, she works in different communities. Now she just wants to assist in Jaco, Costa Rica, and do all kinds of jobs for school children.
Jane Wilton quit her job as a teacher three years ago after she gave birth to her son Simon. Now she would like to give classes to children in rural communities of public schools for free to have a lasting influence in Costa Rica.
Philip Austin is an active person and is chairman of the College Students’ Union. He thinks that he is keen on working for human rights, especially children and adolescents, who have been victims of violation
Eddy is always trying his best to help save endangered sea turtles in Osa Peninsula, Costa Pica, but now he would like to enjoy the experience of volunteer in Wild Animal Rescue Center in the Amazon of Ecuador.

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写作内容

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What’s it all about?
One Small Deed is a website which enables people to let the world know the good deeds they have done and to inspire others to do the same.
Who are we?
We are not a big organization, but just a group of people who wanted to find a way to make the world a nicer place. We live in London and come from different countries, cultures and walks of life, but the one thing we have in common is the fact that we are kind and giving people who want to see more people like us out there.
Want to get involved?
All you need to do is just a small good deed as often as you can. If you want to inspire others, then post your deeds on our website.
Some tips for you to get started:
Open the door for someone.
Offer your seat on the train or bus for someone who needs it more than you.
If a colleague asks for your help at work and you are really busy, find a way.
If someone is in need, like a man in a wheelchair struggling to get across the street, help them.
If you see someone crying, don’t ignore them, ask if you can help.
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1. 以约30个词概括上文的主要内容。
2. 以约120个词谈谈你的看法，内容包括：
1) 你如何看待他们的行为；
2) 叙述生活中的一件小事对你或对他人的影响；
3) 你今后的打算。
写作要求
1. 作文中可以使用亲身经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接饮用原文中的句子。
2. 作文中不能出现真实的姓名和学校名称