河南郑州高三上学期第一次质量预测英语试卷

Philip’s Complete Road Atlas Britain and Ireland

Voted Britain's clearest and most detailed road atlas（地图集）in a consumer survey, the 2016 edition of Philip’s Complete Road Atlas Britain and Ireland contains 160 pages of road maps and clearly marked service areas. It also includes 10 big city approach maps and 64 extra-detailed town and city plans.
Paperback, 248 pages.
￡9.99
Mary Berry Cooks the Perfect

The nation’s best-loved home cook invites you to share the secrets of her favorite dishes. Mary Berry Cooks the Perfect features an all-new collection of 100 mouth-watering, simple recipes for any occasion. From delicious dinners such as Slow-Roast Shoulder of Lamb or Cottage Pie with Dauphinoise Potato Topping to special summer lunches such as Fiery Red Rice Salad and Summer Pudding, this is the perfect kitchen companion.
Hardback, 320 pages.
￡20.00  ￡16.99
Bradford’s Crossword Solver’s Dictionary

Anne Bradford has been editing her Crossword Solver’s Dictionary since 1957, so this latest edition is based on over 50 years of crossword solving! Every word in this dictionary has appeared as a solution to a real crossword clue. With easy-to-read clear text design, this is an invaluable reference for both difficult and quick crosswords.
Paperback, 896 pages.
￡12.99  ￡9.99
Computing for Seniors

This leading computer guide explains in easy steps how to use the Internet, email, Skype and online shopping, plus how to manage your computer settings safely and securely. Updated for Windows 8 and Office 2013, it also sets out to make Tablet PCs, touchscreens and apps easier to be used, to give you confidence in your computing skills.
Paperback, 240 pages.
￡10.99  ￡9.99
What can be expected from Mary Berry Cooks the Perfect?

What do Bradford’s Crossword Solver’s Dictionary and Computing for Seniors have in common?

Which of the following can be a guide for travelers?

Last year I ruined my summer vacation by bringing along a modern convenience that was too convenient for my own good: the iPad. Instead of looking at nature, I checked my e-mail. Instead of paddling a small boat, I followed my Twitter feed（推特简讯）. Instead of reading great novels, I stuck to reading four newspapers each morning. I was behaving as if I were still in the office. My body was on vacation, but my head wasn’t.
So this year I made up my mind to try something different: withdrawal（退出）from the Internet. I knew it wouldn’t be easy, since I’m bad at self-control.  But I was determined.  I started by giving the iPad to my wife.
The cellphone signal at our house was worse than in the past, making my attempts at cheating an experience in frustration （沮丧）. I was trapped, forced to go through with my plan. Largely cut off from e-mail, Twitter and my favorite newspaper websites, I had few ways to connect to the world except for the radio—and how much radio can one listen to, really? I had to do what I had planned to do all along: read books.
This experience has had a happy ending. With determination and the strong support of my wife, I won in my vacation straggle against the Internet, realizing finally that it was I, not the iPad, that was the problem. I knew I had won when we passed a Starbucks and my wife asked if I wanted to stop to use the Wi-Fi. “I don’t need it,” I said.
However, as we return to post-vacation life, a harder test begins: Can I continue when I’m back at work?
There are times when the need to know what’s being said right now is great.  I have no intention of giving up my convenience completely. But I hope to resist the temptation （诱惑）to check my e-mail every five minutes, which leads to checking my Twitter feed and a website ortwo.
I think a vacation is supposed to help you reset your brain to become more productive. Here I hope this one worked.
What do we know about the author’s last summer vacation?

What did the author do to keep away from the Internet this year?

When back at work, the author will probably choose to ________.

What is the author’s opinion of a great vacation in the passage?

There are a growing number of pet owners who feed their pets on raw, which means, “uncooked” meat and bones.  William Burk, a pet food specialist from the Food and Drug Administration （FDA）, believes that feeding raw meat to pets is against its goal of protecting the public from health dangers, and that raw meat and bones do not have all the required nutrition that a pet needs every day.
Recognizing how popular these foods are, the FDA has provided guidelines for producers of pet foods which contain uncooked meat for dogs, cats and other pets. The guidelines give rules to protect pet owners and pets from dangers about food safety and lack of nutrition.
Pet owners who feed raw meat and bones to their pets should deal with these products very carefully to protect themselves against possible dangers, says Burk.  Just as when you are preparing foods for human beings, use hot water and soap to wash your hands, containers, and surfaces that come into contact with the food. Don’t put your hands near your mouth until you have washed them, and don’t allow your pet to touch your face right after it has eaten raw meat.
“If pet owners choose to feed bones to their pets, they should watch their pets carefully when they are eating bones,” Burk says. “If a pet eats a big piece of bone that won’t pass through its digestive system（消化系统）, it is likely to kill the pet.”
What does William Burk think of feeding pets on raw meat?
A. It’ll make the pet owners sick.
B. It’ll keep the pets’ wild nature.
C. It’s against the policy of tile FDA.
D. It’s dangerous and lack of nutrition.
The FDA has provided guidelines for producers of pet foods with raw meat because ________.

Those who feed pets on raw should do some necessary cleaning when ________.

What suggestion is given to pet owners in the last paragraph?

Social change is more likely to occur in societies where there is a mixture of different kinds of people than in societies where people are similar in many ways. The simple reason for this is that there are more different ways of looking at things present in the first kind of society. There are more ideas, more disagreements in interest, and more groups and organizations with different beliefs. In addition, there is usually a greater worldly interest and greater tolerance in mixed societies. All these factors （因素）tend to promote social change by opening more areas of life to decision. In a society where people are similar in many ways, there are fewer situations for people to see the need or the chance for change because everything seems to be the same. And although conditions may not be satisfactory, they are at least customary and clear.
Within a society, social change is also likely to occur more frequently and more readily in the material aspects of the culture than in the non-material aspects, for example, in technology rather than in values; in what has been learned later in life rather than what was learned early; in the simple elements（要素）rather than in the complex ones; and in elements that are acceptable to the culture rather than in strange ones.
Besides, social change is easier if it is gradual. For example, it comes more readily in human relations on a continuous scale rather than one with a sharp division. This is one reason why change has not come more quickly to Black Americans as compared to other American minorities, because of the sharp difference in appearance between them and their white fellows.
The underlined part “greater tolerance” in Paragraph 1 probably refers to “________”.

Why is social change less likely to occur in a society where people are similar in many ways?

Which of the following factors probably tends to promote social change fast?

What is this passage mainly discussing?

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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Every scientific field uses the scientific method to conduct experiments. Performing experiments is very important in the field of psychology （心理学）. Before beginning a study, however, any scientist who wishes to perform an experiment should be familiar with the steps of the scientific method.   
◆ Form a hypothesis （假设）. It is an educated guess about what will happen during the study.       Coming up with a hypothesis before you start can help guide your experiment.
◆ Plan out a study. Planning out the experiment is essential because the psychologist needs to know if they have time, materials, and testing area prepared beforehand. This step also helps the scientist to determine if they will be performing descriptive or experimental research. The ideal situation is to always perform experimental research.       Descriptive research simply collects data regarding the problem and forms a hypothesis according to the data.
◆ Collect data.      If the data collected is not recorded and organized, the entire efforts of the study may be wasted. The best way to do this may be to record the proceedings so that no details are lost.
◆ Analyze the data.  Once all the data has been collected and organized, it must be analyzed. Using previous research or scientific information about the problem, the psychologist must apply the new data gathered.
◆ Publish the information learned. The final step of the scientific method in psychology is publishing the results of the study.    Most psychological experiments are published in scientific journals.

E. The scientific method has proved to be an effective way to conduct research.
F. To fully understand the study, each part of the experiment must be recorded.
G. Sometimes, however, this is impossible and descriptive research will have to be used.

完形填空
阅读下面短文，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。
I always walk to my husband’s office after work, wait for him and then we drive home together every day.
One day, while I was waiting for him, a beautiful Cadillac（凯迪拉克轿车）  ________  near me. I was busy  ________   the car when I noticed the driver.  ________  , she was probably the most   ________   woman I had ever seen outside of a movie screen. Her eyes were as blue as the sea, and she had teeth like pearls. Minutes later, a man walked over and they drove off. Sitting there, dressed in jeans and a T-shirt, I wanted to  ________  .  “Why is it so   ________  that some people have it all?” I thought.
The next week I saw her again, and after that it almost became my   ________   to see her. I would   ________  if she and her husband ate out a lot and where they went. I wanted her to get out of the car so that I could see her in   ________  length.
A few weeks later, this question was  ________   for me. I was waiting at my usual spot and the lady’s husband came over to their car. He opened the door. The pretty woman  ________  walked around to the passenger side—leaning on a walking cane. She ________   one leg with her hands and then the other. She had an artificial limb （假肢）on her left leg and a brace on her right one.
As they drove away, I began to cry. When my husband arrived, I told him about what had   _________ . He said that he knew her husband and that, when the lady was twelve years old, she had been   ________  in a car that got stuck on the railroad tracks. Unfortunately, both her parents were killed. The rail company made a large   ________  with her because the crossing had no  ________  . That’s  ________  she owns such a nice car now.
For weeks I have  ________this woman and her way of life, but now I realize how   ________   I am. When you meet a person who seems to be much better off than you, don’t be fooled by   ________  .

A．drove in B．pulled up C．sped by D．turned away

A．cleaning B．taking C．expecting D．admiring

A．Honestly B．Sincerely C．Surprisingly D．Obviously

A．peaceful B．typical C．beautiful D．patient

A．cry B．argue C．escape D．ask

A．unbearable B．unusual C．unfair D．unbelievable

A．chance B．wonder C．regret D．routine

A．imagine B．wonder C．guess D．doubt

A．great B．equal C．full D．standard

A．raised B．answered C．presented D．checked

A．slowly B．firmly C．quickly D．hurriedly

A．bent B．spread C．crossed D．lifted

A．changed B．happened C．passed D．hidden

A．discovered B．protected C．left D．trapped

A．settlement B．exchange C．promise D．arrangement

A．stops B．notices C．signals D．lights

A．why B．when C．because D．where

A．respected B．observed C．accepted D．envied

A．boring B．mature C．lucky D．confident

A．collections B．appearances C．backgrounds D．descriptions

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式，并将答案填写在答题卡相应的位置上。
Sweet wormwood （青蒿）is a common plant in China,     it has the power to cure the deadly disease called malaria （疟疾）. Tu Youyou    （be）the woman who uses the plant’s special power to save millions of lives. The Chinese scientist won a Nobel Prize because of her great contribution.
On October 5, Tu was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. She shared the prize with two other scientists from the US and Japan. Tu is the first native Chinese person   __（receive）a Nobel Prize in natural sciences.
Tu was modest about receiving the award: “It’s a success for the whole research team.” She also thinks       is scientists’ duty to fight for the health of all humans.
When Tu joined the national research team to find the medicine     could fight against malaria in the 1960s and 1970s, things were hard. The team didn’t have advanced equipment back then. Tu used to test      （medicine） by eating them herself. Her team searched old Chinese medicine books     hand and tested over 2,000 traditional recipes.
Once Tu      （return）home after traveling for six months. Her little daughter didn’t recognize her and hid from the “strange woman”. To do research, Tu also had to move around a lot.
Finally, Tu found artemisinin （青蒿素）in sweet wormwood in 1971. She spent the next decades      （try） to improve the medicine. According to World Health Organization, about 200 million people suffer   malaria around the world, and about haft a million die each year. Artemisinin is stir the most effective treatment against malaria known today.
Tu never complains about how hard she works. “I feel more rewarded when I see so many cured patients,” she said.

短文改错
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词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（从第11处起）不计分。
I can still remember I was once asked to make speech before the whole class at the age of 9. You can imagine how shy I was when I thought of that with so many eyes fixed to me. I had no more choice but to prepare for it, though. The hardest part was my oral presentation from my memory, for reading from the paper wasn’t allowing. The real moment began before I stood on the platform with my legs trembling or my mind blank.  But my listeners were waiting patient. Gradually, I found me back, giving my speech at last. After what seemed to be a long time, I heard all the listeners applauding loudly. Ever since then, my fear of speak before a big audience had disappeared. Actually, now I’ve become a great speaker!

书面表达
假定你是李华，你校将接待一批来自美国的高中生到你校学习汉语，目前校办公室正在为他们征寻为期两周的接待家庭。请用英语给学校写一封信提出申请，说明你的理由和条件。
内容要点：
1．基本情况（姓名、性别、年龄、性格等）；
2．英语水平；
3．家庭条件；
4．相关经历；
5．其他……
注意：
1．词数100左右；
2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3．文中不得透露个人真实姓名和学校名称；
4．开头语和结束语已为你写好，不计入总词数。
参考词汇：host family 接待家庭
Dear Sir / Madam,
_______________________________________________________________________________
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Yours faithfully,
Li Hua