合肥市2019年高三第一次教学质量检测英语

合肥市

2019

年高三第一次教学质量检测

英语试题

（考 试时间：

120

分钟满分：

150

分）

第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分< /p>

40

分）

第一 节（共

15

小题；每小题

2

30

分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的

A

、

B

、

C

和

D

四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

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A

Panama City, Panama

For

beach

vacations

that

get

you

out

of

town

and

invite

you

and

your

family

to

dive

into

culture

，

consider a trip to Panama City. Here

，

you will enjoy beaches and city exploring. Book your

stay at the Westin Playa Bonita, where you can book a room starting at $$222 a night. There are

various programs

，

including beach Olympics, stargazing (

天体观察）

and Spanish lessons.

Jupiter, Florida

This

place

offers

you

quality

time

you

can

spend

with

your

loved

ones.

Book

your

stay

at

Jupiter Beach Resort & Spa, with rates for a family of four starting at $$207 a night. Here, you can

shoot baskets at the basketball courts

，

take a dip in the pool or teach your children beach yoga.

San Diego

，

California

The West Coast is a great spot for cheap beach vacations, so tell your family to pack their

bags for a visit to San Diego. A cheap $$10 Uber ride from the airport will have you pulling up the

Kona Kai Resort & Spa. Here

，

a family of four can stay in a Deluxe Guest Room starting at $$159 per

night. Your kids can practice cannonballs at the pool after a visit to the world-famous San Diego

Zoo.

Kihei Maui, Hawaii

For

West

Coasters

who are

growing bored

with their

backyard,

fly

to the

islands of

Hawaii.

Stay at the Aston at the Maui Banyan, with a charge of $$179 a night for a family of four. Here

，

you'll

witness some of the best sunsets of your life while your kids splash (

戏水）

in the Pacific, And if

you're set on cooking a fancy meal, you'll enjoy suites that come with a full kitchen.

21. Which of the following charges you least a night?

A. The Aston at the Maui Banyan.

B. The Westin Playa Bonita.

C. The Kona Kai Resort & Spa.

D. Jupiter Beach Resort & Spa.

22. What can you do at the Aston at the Maui Banyan?

A. Admire beautiful sunsets.

B. Visit a world-famous zoo.

C. Observe fantastic stars.

D. Play some beach sports.

23. What is the common feature of the four destinations?

A. They all offer rooms with a full kitchen.

B. They are all intended for family trips.

C. They all pick up visitors from the airport.

D. They all provide bike riding on the beach.

B

Created

in

1998

by

Casey

and

Shelley

Black,

the

Northern

Lights

Wildlife

Wolf

Center

focuses on not only rescuing young abandoned wolves but educating the public. Unlike other

centers,

you

can

actually walk

with

the

wolves and

have

exciting,

hands-on

interaction

with

them here. And so

，

we gathered one late winter morning to learn, prepare and walk.

Scrappy and Flora

，

our wolves that day

，

were brought to the center when only a few days

old.

“

They lived in the house with us for the first several months. We treated them like human

babies, fed them and slept with them,

”

said Shelley. So, they are totally used to people. However,

these

are

wild

animals.

For

that

reason,

Shelley

and

Casey

explained,

the

walk

is

totally

on

the

wolf

’

s terms.

“

We don

’

t approach them, but if they come up to us, we can touch them.

”

With

all

this

in

mind,

we

headed

for

the

woods.

We

were

walking

on

a

logging

road

when

suddenly

，

Flora, all 60 pounds of her

，

hurried up to me and raised up on her legs. She was almost

as tall as me. As she leaned in, put her huge muddy paws on my shoulders and sniffed my face,

apparently she was saying hello in wolf talk.

We

walked

farther,

maybe

half

a

mile,

while

Scrappy

and

Flora

dashed

in

and

out

of

the

woods

stopping

to

occasionally

roll

in

the

snow

，

dig

for

this

or

that

and

just

play.

Then

we

all

headed into the trees to a picturesque stream where the wolves splashed

，

drank and had a great

time.

One

could

point

out

that

this

whole

adventure

was

staged

and

quite

artificial.

But

the

purpose, Casey and Shelley said

，

is to explain the wolves' place in the environment and

，

primarily

，

to let people know wolves don' t have to be universally feared

—

they really don' t hide secretly in

the woods just waiting to eat people

，

but they' d rather avoid people

，

for the most part.

24. How is the Northern Lights Wildlife Wolf Center different from others?

A. It trains and educates wild wolves.

B. It aims to rescue young abandoned wolves.

C. It raises wolves for commercial purposes.

D. It allows visitors to take a walk with wolves.

25. What can be inferred from Shelley and Casey

’

s explanation in Paragraph 2?

A. The walk can be potentially dangerous.

B. The wolves have lost all their wildness.

C. People should get close to the wolves actively.

D. The wolves can read people

’

s mind like human babies.

26. Why did Flora behave like that when she saw the author on the logging road?

A. To express curiosity.

B. To show friendliness.

C. To attract attention.

D. To seek companionship.

27. Why do Casey and Shelley organize such an adventure?

A. To advertise the center.

B. To publicize wolf hunting.

C. To promote environmental protection.

D. To clarify some conventional views of wolves.

C

Have

you

ever

heard

of

agritourism

where

you

can

experience

farm

life?

If

not,

Dr.

Cindy

Ayers- Elliott will tell you the real story of Foot Print Farms.

The original concept of building Foot Print Farms was simple. When Ayers-Elliott returned to

her hometown after graduation

，

she didn' t have to look any further than her state' s alarming

health

statistics

to

find

a

mission.

Everywhere

she

turned,

there

were

reports

of

high

blood

pressure,

diabetes,

obesity

and

heart

disease.

“

The

problem

was

already

identified.

explains

Ayers-Elliott.

“

Too many Mississippians were seriously unhealthy and it didn

’

t take research to

see that. And many of the state' s greatest health challenges could directly result from poor diet.

”

These

days

，

Foot

Print Farms,

which

started

with

a few raised beds

of herbs

and

vegetables,

is

making fresh, naturally grown food.

，

the co-op model

works because we share the work and rewards

，

”

notes Ayers-Elliott.

“

A perfect example is the

Wingfield High School football team. To earn the money for equipment and other items, players

committed to working five hours a week on the farm

，

and by the end of the summer they had

produced 1

，

000 melons and the profits from their sales helped to buy weights

，

T-shirts

，

sweat suits

and

pregame

meals.

But

the

lessons

they

learned

about

the

rewards

of

hard

work

and

working

together to accomplish something were even more valuable products of their efforts.

”

some of our current partners do just that

——

to take what they have learned here and spin it off in

other communities,

aspect to

the

farm,

where

visitors

can

experience farm

life,

learn

new skills

and take

with them

seeds of inspiration they can sow in their own communities when they return home.

28. What made Ayers-Elliott set up Foot Print Farms?

A. The problems faced by local farmers.

B. Her further research into heart disease.

C. The failure of her career after graduation.

D. The health state of people in her hometown.

29. Why does the author take the football team as an example?

A. To advocate the concept of independence.

B. To stress the importance of teamwork.

C. To support the idea of co- op model.

D. To explore the key to success.

30. What is Ayers-Elliott' s attitude towards the future of Foot Print Farms?

A. Optimistic. B. Skeptical. C. Cautious. D. Ambiguous.

31. What is the main idea of the text?

A. Naturally grown food benefits people

’

s health.

B. Food Print Farms is making a difference in Mississippi.

C. Ayers- Elliott encourages people to experience farm

D. Agritourism is becoming increasingly popular in America.

D

We can video chat with astronauts aboard the International Space Station and watch live

footage from the frozen heights of Everest. But communicating with a submarine (

潜艇）

or a diver

is not so easy. The lack of practical methods for sharing data between underwater and airborne

devices

has

long

been

a

frustration

for

scientists.

The

difficulty

stems

from

the

fact

that

radio

signals work perfectly in air travel but poorly in water. Sonar (

声呐）

signals used by underwater

sensors reflect off the surface of the water rather than reaching the air.

Now

，

researchers

at

MIT

have

developed

a

method

with

the

potential

to

revolutionize

underwater communication.

“

What we

’

ve shown is that it

’

s actually feasible to communicate

from

underwater to the

air,

says

Fadel

Adib

，

a

professor

at

MJT

’

s Media

Lab

，

who led

the

research.

The

MIT

researchers

designed

a

system

that

uses

an

underwater

machine

to

send

sonar

signals

to

the

surface,

making

vibrations

(

震动

)corresponding

to

the

ls

and

Os

of

the

data.

A

surface receiver then reads and decodes these tiny vibrations. The researchers call the system TARF.

It has any number of potential real-world uses, Adib says. It could be used to find downed planes

underwater

by

reading

signals

from

sonar

devices

in

a

plane'

s

black

box

and

it

could

allow

submarines to communicate with the surface.

Right

now

the

technology

is

low-resolution.

The

initial

study

was

conducted

in

the

MIT

swimming pool at maximum depths of around 11 or 12 feet. The next steps for the researchers are

to

see

if

TARF

is

workable

at

much

greater

depths

and

under

varying

conditions

—

high

waves,

storms

，

schools of fish. They also want to see if they can make the technology work in the other

direction

—

air to water.

If the technology proves successful in real-world conditions, expect

“

texting while diving

”

to be the latest underwater fashion.

32. What does the author mainly talk about in Paragraph 1?

A. The future of video chat underwater and in air.

B. The frustrations of developing underwater devices.

C. The difficulty of communication from water to air.

D. The current situation of communicating with a submarine.

33. What does the underlined word

“

< br>feasible

”

mean?

A. Achievable. B. Convenient. C. Changeable. D. Alternative.