江苏省苏北四市2018届高三第一次调研测试英语试题

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My mother has always been involved in early-childhood education. She often set the scene

for children to

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the joy of physical activity, getting them excited and

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to learn.

Mum was so proud of me after I

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the triathlon at the 2000 Olympics, but before the

dust

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, she grabbed me, saying

: “Now this is your

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. Use it.” She wasn?t speaking

from

an

economic

point

of

view

but

talking

about

the

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of

my

being

a

role

model,

encouraging kids to

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their dreams.

Since the Olympics, I have

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more than 100 schools. I talk to the kids about “living

a

life

less

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,”

a

concept

passed

on

to

me

by

my

parents—

the

idea

of

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being

average. I tell them that what you believe, you will

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.

As I was a kid, my mother came to every

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—

not to pressure me but to

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me.

One of my favorite sports-related memories was when I was

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in the Canadian Triathlon

Championships. As

I

ran

by

a

big

truck,

I

saw

my

mother

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on

top

of

one of

its

huge

wheels,

cheering

for

me.

I

find

it

sad

when

people

say

their

parents

have

never

seen

them

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.

When

I

was

at

the

University,

I

completed

only

one

semester

and

then

decided

to

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so

I

could

race

professionally

full-time.

Mum

was

the

first

person

I

called.

It

was

a

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moment. I wasn?t sure how she would react.

“Mum, I have this opportunity, and I think I?m going to take it. What do you think?”

She was as

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as ever. It turned out to be a good

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. Supporting your children,

trusting their decisions, giving well-thought-out advice

—

those are definitely important qualities.

36. A. experience

B. evaluate

C. express

D. expect

37. A. afraid

B. ready

C. relaxed

D. reluctant

38. A. won

B. chose

C. played

D. watched

39. A. rose

B. settled

C. flew

D. appeared

40. A. luck

B. time

C. crossroad

D. opportunity

41. A. demand

B. happiness

C. courage

D. importance

42. A. display

B. follow

C. appreciate

D. abandon

43. A. served

B. attended

C. visited

D. started

44. A. energetic

B. colorful

C. miserable

D. ordinary

45. A. never

B. always

C. seldom

D. usually

46. A. neglect

B. achieve

C. suspect

D. assume

47. A. practice

B. school

C. game

D. kindergarten

48. A. support

B. reward

C. instruct

D. comfort

49. A. surfing

B. jumping

C. jogging

D. running

50. A. sitting

B. speaking

C. standing

D. performing

51. A. compete

B. succeed

C. separate

D. compromise

52. A. drop in

B. drop off

C. drop out

D. drop back

53. A. magic

54. A. attractive

55. A. consideration

B. nervous

B. talkative

B. intention

C. critical

C. imaginative

C. suggestion

D. serious

D. supportive

D. decision

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The Chocolate Museum

The story of chocolate through the ages

●

Experience chocolate-making from cocoa bean to chocolate bar

●

Enjoy the smell,taste and texture of freshly made chocolate

Opening hours

Tues

—

Fri

10 am to 6 pm

Sat&Sun+public holidays

11 am to 7 am

Closed on Mondays, Christmas Day and during Carnival week.

Entrance fees

Adults

＄

6.00

Concessions (over 65 years old)

＄

3.00

Groups (of 15 people or more)

＄

5.00

More than a museum!

The Panorama Restaurant can cater for all your corporate events: business lunches,

anniversaries, weddings and parties. Groups of 30

—

300 people are welcome.

------------------- -------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------

Welcome To Auckland Museum

“Nau mai haere mai”

Auckland

Museum

has

a

constantly

changing

feast

of

fresh

events

and new exhibitions reflecting the culture of New Zealand. This year is no

exception.

Click here to find out

more >>

Latest news

Be inspired by the da Vinci Machines exhibition and design and build your own original

flying machine. The best entry will win the budding inventor a helicopter ride over Auckland for

a family of four.

Avoid

the

traffic,

enjoy

hassle-free

parking

and

view

the

exhibits

in

peace

and

quiet

on

Wednesday evenings! Open till 7:30 pm.

From 28 November until 4 March there will be no public access to the Reading Room.

Click here to find out

more >>

Museum opening hours

10 am

—

5 pm daily (except Christmas Day)

56. If 16 adults, including 3 aged 70, plan to visit the Chocolate Museum, how much should they

pay at least

？

A.

＄

69.

B.

＄

78.

C.

＄

80.

D.

＄

87.

57. According to the information of Auckland Museum, we know that _________.

A. it opens from 10 am to 5 pm every day

B. it has a feast of fresh events except this year

C. the winner will fly a helicopter as a reward

D. the museum focuses on New Zealand

?

s culture

B

I used to think the whole purpose of life was pursuing happiness. Everyone said the path to

happiness

was

success,

so

I

searched

for

that

ideal

job,

that

perfect

boyfriend,

that

beautiful

apartment. But instead of ever feeling fulfilled, I felt anxious and adrift. Eventually, I decided to

go to graduate school for positive psychology to learn what truly makes people happy.

And

what?s

the

difference

between

being

happy

and

having

meaning

in

life?

Many

psychologists

define

happiness

as

a

state

of

comfort

and

ease,

feeling

good

in

the

moment.

Meaning, though, is deeper. The renowned psychologist Martin Seligman says meaning comes

from belonging to and serving something beyond yourself and from developing the best within

you. Our culture is obsessed (

痴迷于

) with happiness, but I came to see that seeking meaning is

the more fulfilling path.

There are four pillars (

支柱

) of a meaningful life.

The

first

pillar

is

belonging.

Belonging

comes

from

being

in

relationships

where

you?re

valued

for

who

you

are

intrinsically

and

where

you

value

others

as

well.

For

many

people,

belonging is the most essential source of meaning.

For others, the key to meaning is the second pillar: purpose. Finding your purpose is not the

same thing as finding that job that makes you happy. A hospital custodian told me her purpose is

healing

sick

people.

Many

parents

tell

me,

“My

purpose

is

raising

my

children.”

The

key

to

purpose

is

using

your

strengths

to

serve

others.

Without

something

worthwhile

to

do,

people

flounder.

The

third

pillar

of

meaning

is

also

about

stepping

beyond

yourself,

but

in

a

completely

different

way:

transcendence

(

超然

).

Transcendent

experiences

can

change

you.

Transcendent

states are those rare moments when you?re lifted above the hustle and bustle of daily

life, your

sense of self fades away, and you feel connected to a higher reality. For me, I?m a writer, and it

happens through writing. Sometimes I get so in the zone that I lose all sense of time and place.

The

fourth

pillar

is

storytelling,

the

story

you

tell

yourself

about

yourself.

Creating

a

narrative from the events of

your life brings clarity.

It

helps you understand how you became

you. But we don?t always realize that we?re the authors of our stories and can change the way

we?re telling them. Your life isn?t just a list of events. You can edit, interpret and retell your story,

even as you?re constrained by the facts.

That?

s the power of meaning. Happiness comes and goes. But when life is really good and

when things are really bad, having meaning gives you something to hold on to.

58. What can we infer from the first two paragraphs?

A. Life can be fulfilled by landing ideal jobs.

B. Life dilemma is easy for us to get out of.

C. Happiness is the core values in our culture.

D. Happiness is what most people pursue.

59. From the four pillars of a meaningful life, we can know that ________.

A. nothing is as essential a source of meaning as belonging

B. purpose is less about what you want than what you give

C. transcendent fades easily and rarely makes us cheerful

D. the way of telling stories guarantees a meaningful life

60. The passage aims to tell us that ________.

A. meaning is more important than happiness

B. seeking meaning does more good than bad

C. chasing happiness can make people unhappy

D. meaning has deeper psychological significance

C

In

2015

a

paper

published

in

a

science

magazine

reported on the personality types of people living in various

London

districts.

Extroverts

(

外向的人

),

the

researchers

who wrote it had discovered, favored Richmond. Those who

were most open to experience gathered in Hackney. People

in Barnet scored lower than average on emotional stability.

What

this

study

did

not

address

was

whether

someone

?

s

home

range

reflects

their

personality

traits

or

imposes them. In other words, is what is going on

“

nature

”

or

“

”

(

培育

) ? However, in a

piece

of

research

just

published,

Dr.

Holtmann

of

Otago

University,

in

New

Zealand,

and

his

colleagues have filled that gap

—

at least, they have filled it for dunnocks.

The dunnock is a European bird. It has, though, been introduced to New Zealand and its

population

has

boomed

there.

It

is

a

well-studied

species,

and,

in

particular,

some

being

measurably

bolder

(

更大胆的

)

and

more

tolerant

of

potential

threats,

such

as

nearby

human

beings, than others. The team

?

s research area was the Botanic Garden in Dunedin. This is open to

the

public,

but

some

areas

are

more

frequented

by

visitors

than

others.

Dunnocks

have

small

territories, so

it was possible to measure the amount of human disturbance in a given territory

with

reasonable

precision.

And,

by

wrapping

each

of

the

dunnocks

in

the

garden

with

colour-coded bands it was possible to identify individuals by sight. Altogether, the researchers

looked at 99 of them.

They worked out a bird

?

s level of threat tolerance by the simple method of walking towards

it, and then measuring how close one could get before the bird flew away. They did this several

times

for

each

bird

every

breeding

season,

and

repeated

the

process

over

the

course

of

three

seasons.

A particular bird

?

s flight distance (ie, how closely it could be approached before it departed)

was, they found, consistent within a breeding season. From season to season most birds got a

little bolder

—

probably as they learnt more about the world and what they could safely get away

with.

But

this

increase

in

boldness

with

age

was

small

compared

with

the

different

starting

points

of

bold

and

shy

birds

when

they

first

arrived

in

a

territory.

It

did

not,

therefore,

much

affect the fact that, on average, bird

s?

flight distances were inversely correlated (

负相关

) with

the

level

of

human

disturbance

in

their

territories.

This

was

a

consequence

of

disturbed

territories being settled by bold birds, and undisturbed territories by shy ones.

In the case of dunnocks, then, nature wins over nurture. Dr. Holtmann was able to show that

personalities match circumstances, rather than being created by them. Dunnocks can recognize

which places suit them best, and choose to settle in them shortly after they are fully fledged (

羽

翼丰满

). Most likely, that is happening in London districts, too.

61. What does the underlined words

“

that gap

”

in the second paragraph refer to?

A. What the paper published in 2015 failed to handle.

B. Why extroverts favour certain areas in London district.

C. How Dr. Holtmann involved dunnocks in his study.

D. What the former and latter study have in common.

62. From Paragraph 3, we can know that dunnocks ________.

A. are native to New Zealand

B. have distinct personalities

C. are bolder than human beings

D. can be easily identified by its color

63. What conclusion did Dr. Holtmann draw from his study?

A. It

?

s nurture rather than nature that matters in the case of dunnocks

?

behaviour.

B. Bird

s?

flight distances were in proportion to human disturbance in their territories.

C. Dunnocks choose their habitats wisely in the first place rather than adapt to them.

D. Bold birds and shy birds alike settle in undisturbed territories in the botanic garden.

64. What is the author

?

s purpose in writing the passage?

A. To argue that circumstances cultivate certain personalities.

B. To entertain readers with some funny facts about dunnocks.

C. To present the finding of a scientific research about dunnocks.

D. To confirm the assumption that personalities match circumstances.

D

I?m

sitting at home working, minding my business, and the mobile rings. It?s DC Lyle from

Wandsworth police station. He says that my name was given to Crimestoppers anonymously as a

potential witness to the ?Putney Pusher? incident. Remember that

madman who pushed a woman

into the path of a bus on Putney Bridge while out for his morning jog? Well, six months on and

they still haven?t found him—

and DC Lyle wants to meet.

I say I couldn?t possibly help as I wasn?t a witness. DC Lyle says he still needs to meet.

I

reaffirm there really was no point, I could be of no value; I wasn?t there. DC Lyle insists, and in

doing

so

mentions

that

he

has

my

email

address,

and

that

he

tried

to

see

me

at

my

office

yesterday (I wasn?t in). What? Somebody gave the police my office

address, email address and

phone number. Who? Feeling invaded and annoyed, I tell DC Lyle he could come at 10 a.m. the

next day. I put the phone down, and only then the penny dropped. I was a suspect.