[山东]2013届山东省潍坊市高三3月第一次模拟考试英语试卷

We all sighed with          relief when         plane finally landed safely.

We will be given a(n)        to ask questions at the end of the lecture.

—Did you ask your elder brother for help?
—I          need to. I managed it by myself.

Ted is such a helpful colleague that he is willing to do,       ,any favour we might ask him.

The mother         many things to get her daughter a good education.

—May I see your driving license, please?
—         ？ Did I do something wrong?

Schools in China are required to          at least one “Sports Day” per academic year.

Skiing in Taiwan is          most of the time because there's very little snow there.

        is known to all is that the Diaoyu Islands have belonged to China since ancient times.

—Where is the post office?
—It's just over there, at the end of the street. You          not miss it.

Air pollution is getting more and more serious, so we must take action          it is too late.

The No. l subway,       at the end of 20l4, will greatly improve the traffic conditions in Qingdao.

—Shall I turn the heating on?
—Sure, it's so cold in here. I'm          freezing.

This is a kind of traditional classroom teaching        students are taught a lot about grammar rules.

—Skipping breakfast is a great way to lose weight.
—       . Actually it has the opposite effect.

A few weeks ago, our dog, which we had kept for more than ten years, had to be put down. First, a tumor on her stomach got worse, and she was very   36  . Then, the pain in her back got so bad that sometimes she   37   lie down in the middle of a walk and couldn't take another   38  .
When I first found out, l was very sad and cried a lot. She was more like a sister to me than a   39  .But I was also angry at my stepfather,Steve,who told us the  40  a week after it happened. He   41   because he didn' t want to worry us, and he didn't want me to get depressed(抑郁的) and fail my exams. I just thought she was   42   at the animals' hospital.
I think you know all the   43   that went through my head: She was my dog！Why didn't he tell us earlier? I didn't even get to say goodbye.
People in my family have a   44   of keeping things from me to protect me, such as only telling me that my aunt had cancer   45   she had already improved health. All I could think was: Not again !
I   46   to my mum, and she said， “I know. I'm   47   , too.” I opened my mouth to shout. And then she added, “I'm so angry with Steve that he had to   48   through all this on his own.”Hearing my mum's words, I shut up my mouth. I had been so   49   on myself. I hadn't thought about   50   Steve was going through. That dog was his baby. He'd had her for longer than he'd had us—and he had to make the decision to   51   her life, and then kept in silence for an entire   52  . All my anger melted away, and all I felt was   53  .
It makes me realize that we focus so much on ourselves that we   54   the pain of others. At that moment, my mum's words were an incredible   55   that I'll never forget.

A．lazy B．lonely C．painful D．shameful

A．would B．should C．might D．could

A．walk B．step C．foot D．breath

A．tool B．toy C．baby D．pet

A．plan B．accident C．anecdote D．truth

A．lied B．waited C．reflected D．hesitated

A．still B．once C．even D．never

A．facts B．opinions C．thoughts D．doubts

A．story B．secret C．habit D．hobby

A．until B．before C．while D．after

A．adjusted B．turned C．contributed D．related

A．angry B．shocked C．guilty D．abused

A．break B．go C．look D．push

A．focused B．hooked C．dependent D．hard

A．that B．where C．what D．which

A．save B．expand C．make D．end

A．year B．month C．week D．day

A．regret B．blame C．sorrow D．sympathy

A．shared B．ignored C．reminded D．rid

A．comfort B．compromise C．gift D．suggestion

Anyone who has ever lost keys or money will have wished for a simple but effective way to make sure it never happens again. A US company is trying to help.
Using a tiny microchip which is implanted into the arm, they have come up with a replacement for cash or credit cards that cannot be left at home or dropped on the bus.
The Verichip is about the size of a grain of rice and works using radio frequency  identification technology. At a shop, a radio frequency “reader” would send a signal and the chip in your arm would respond with your unique identity number. That would give the “reader” your financial information, and money could be taken directly from your accounts and you wouldn't even have to reach for your wallet.
The company also hopes to include other information on the chip, such as medical records, building security codes(密码) and passwords, making life even easier.
But not everyone is happy with the developments. Critics say that a lot can go wrong with the chip. A clever thief could build a fake(假的) reader that would steal your information without you knowing. So your money could still be stolen. Privacy is a big issue too. Stores, or even the government, only need to track the chip to find out what you buy, how much you spend and where you go.
And if you wanted to get rid of your chip,you would need an operation to remove it.
The Verichip is         .

Paragraph 3 is mainly about         .

Which is true of the Verichip?

What can be inferred from the text?

The author's purpose of writing the text is most likely to         .

Success is often measured by the ability to overcome adversity. But, it is often the belief of others that gives us the courage to try.
J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter book series, began writing at age 6. In her biography, she remembers with great fondness when her good friend, Sean, whom she met in secondary school, became the first person to encourage her and help build the confidence that one day she would be a very good writer.
“He was the first person with whom I really discussed my serious ambition to be a writer. He was also the only person who thought I was bound to be a success at it, which meant much more to me than I ever told him at the time.”
Despite many setbacks Rowling persevered in her writing, particularly fantasy stories. But it wasn't until l990 that she first conceived the idea about Harry Potter. As she recalls, it was on a long train journey from London to Manchester that “the idea of Harry Potter simply fell into my head. To my immense frustration(沮丧), I didn't have a functioning pen with me, and I was too shy to ask anybody if I could borrow one. I think, now, that this was probably a good thing, because I simply sat and thought, for four(delayed train) hours, and all the details bubbled up in my brain, and this scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who didn't know he was a wizard became more and more real to me.”
That same year, her mother passed away after a ten-year battle with multiple sclerosis, which deeply affected her writing. She went on to marry and had a daughter, but separated from her husband shortly afterwards.
During this time, Rowling was diagnosed with clinical depression. Unemployed, she completed her first novel in area cafes, where she could get her daughter to fall asleep. After being rejected by l2 publishing houses, the first Harry Potter novel was sold to a small British publishing house.
Now with seven books that have sold nearly 400 million copies in 64 languages, J. K. Rowling is the highest earning novelist in history. And it all began with her commitment to writing that was fostered by the confidence of a friend !
Who believed J. K. Rowling was to be a good writer?

Rowling first came up with the idea about Harry Potter         .

She felt frustrated on the train because         .

It can be concluded from Paragraph 5 and 6 that Rowling is         .

The text mainly tells us         .

Whenever anyone measures educational success, East Asian countries are always top scorers. But in a recent league table, a European country, Finland, was top of the class. South Korea was still in second place, though. Britain was at number 6.
In Korea the school day is long—typically 7 or 8 hours, followed by hours of private tutoring in the evenings. All this hothousing leaves Korean students so tired, they sometimes fall asleep in class next day. Worries about the effects of late night cramming(填鸭式) led the government to force cramming schools to close by 10 pm. Finnish children spend the least time in class in the developed world, often finishing just after lunch, with about one hour of homework a day. Private tuition is uncommon. The British and American school day is quite long in comparison, around 6 hours, and secondary school pupils do 2 or 3 hours of self-study a night.
The Korean education system, like many in Asia, is intensely competitive, with students even competing to get into the best cramming schools, to help them get ahead. Finnish education is far less cut-throat. Classes are all mixed ability, and there are no league tables. British schools again occupy the middle ground, with quite high levels of competition for places at university, and schools and universities battling to come top of league tables for everything from exam results to student satisfaction. Korea and Finland both do well, yet their education systems are so different.
However, there are some similarities in Korea and Finland. In those countries, teachers have high status in society, and education is very highly valued. Those attitudes can't change quickly. But it can be done. They might be the star pupils now, but until the l970s, Finland's educational system was poor. Their thoroughly different approach to schooling has taken them to the top in just a generation.
The students spend the least time in school in         .

According to the text, we think in Korea         .

The underlined phrase “all this hothousing” in Paragragh 2 probably refers to         .

From Paragragh 3, we can know that         .

According to the author, the key to improving education is         .

Eating foods high in trans-fats(fats present in artificial form in industrially-produced cakes and fast food...) and saturated (饱和的) fats increases the risk of depression, according to a Spanish study, confirming previous studies that linked “junk food” with the disease. Researchers also showed that some products, such as olive oil, can fight against the risk of mental illness.
Authors of the wide-reaching study, from the universities of Navarra and Las Palmas, followed and analyzed the diet and lifestyle of over l2,000 volunteers over six years. When the study began, none of the participants had been diagnosed with depression; by the end, 657 of them were new sufferers.
“Participants with an increased consumption of trans-fats presented up to a 48 percent increase in the risk of depression when they were compared to participants who did not consume these fats,” the head study author said. “The more trans-fats were consumed, the greater harmful effect they produced in the volunteers.”
The research team found, at the same time, that after assessing the effect of polyunsaturated fats made up of larger amounts of fish and vegetable oils and olive oil, these products are associated with a lower risk of suffering depression.
The report, published in the online journal PLOS ONE, noted the research was performed on a European population that enjoys a relatively low intake of trans-fats—making up only 0.4 percent of the total energy taken in by the volunteers. “Despite this, we observed an increase in the risk of suffering depression of nearly 50 percent,” said researcher Miguel Martinez. “On this basis we think it of great importance to take this effect into account in countries like the United States, where the percentage of energy derived from these fats is around 2.5 percent.”
The report pointed out that the current number of depression sufferers in the world is around l50 million people, and has increased in recent years. This rise is attributable, according to the authors, “to great changes in the sources of fats consumed in Western diets, where we have replaced certain types of beneficial fats in nuts, vegetable oils and fish with the saturated and trans-fats found in meats, butter and other products such as mass-produced cakes and fast food.”
What's the best title of the text?

Which of the following increases the risk of suffering depression?

The study tells us that         .

The underlined word “derived” in Paragraph 5 is closest in meaning to         .

More and more Westerners are suffering depression because         .

阅读下面短文并回答问题，然后将答案写到答题卡相应的位置上（请注意问题后的词数要求）。
[l] We expect companies selling products to make them as available as possible. But now some of them are bringing back rationing(定量供应). As you might expect, it's all part of a plan to make us spend more, not less.
[2]Butter, bacon, sugar, tea and meat were rationed in Britain during World War II, because goods at that time were scarce, and hard to get for all. But nowadays industrial mass production           . Factories all over the world are pumping out bright and beautiful objects.
[3]When everyone has to wait and save up for new things, owning them feels exciting and special. But when lovely things are available every day, they stop being a treat. The other characteristic of consumer society is that we aim for social distinction through what we own. But if everyone has lots of things, how can we impress anyone with our purchases? All of this takes the fun out of shopping and means there's a limit to how much consumerism can grow.
[4] This is deeply worrying to companies, and some of them have started to fight it, by creating artificial scarcity(短缺). For example, Swedish rapper Adam Tensta has limited access to his latest track. Only one person at a time can access it, and fans must take their place in a digital queue.
[5] This hend means we can again own something rare. But the risk for these companies is that in a world of so many things, if they make their products too hard to get, we'll just buy from someone else instead.
What is the text mainly about? (no more than 3 words)
                                                                               
Fill in the blank in Paragraph 2 with proper words. (no more than 5 words)
                                                                               
In which paragraph can the following sentences be put as an example?
In Singapore, a small cafe called Liberty Coffee only opens on random days. It sometimes stays closed for over a week at a time.
                                                                               
What are the two characteristics of consumer society? (no more than 15 words)
①                                                                           
②                                                                           
What is the risk for the companies creating artificial scarcity ? (no more than l0 words)
                                                                              

假如你是新华中学学生李华，在最近举行的市高中生英语口语大赛中获得了一等奖。某英语报社邀请你写一篇稿件，介绍你练习英语口语的经验。稿件内容如下：
1．树立自信，克服羞怯心理；
2．多参加英语角活动；
3．多看英语新闻（如CCTV-9）
注意：1. 词数：120-150；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。