2007—2008学年汕尾市梅陇中学高三第一次质量检测英语试卷

本套试题共10页，四大题,满分150分。考试时间为120分钟 。
第二部分：英语知识运用（共两节, 满分35分）
第一节：完形填空（20分，每小题2分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(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。
Exercise is often said to be good for everyone．But a new study has shown that exercise could be _21  especially for people past middle age．The study was done with mice．It showed that although mild exercise   22    a good effect on the muscles of young mice, it 23_the muscles of mice past middle age．
The three groups of mice in the experiment were _24__in age at young, middle-aged, and elderly humans．The mice were__25_on a thread-mill (踏车) 30 minutes a day for a five-week period．At the end of that time, the young mice’s leg muscles had increased almost 30 percent in weight, but those of the old mice were reduced by 25 percent．No_26_pattern showed for the middle-aged mice．
David Gershon, an expert who carried out the experiment, explained that the older mice’ muscles were probably already_27_down and that exercise worsened the _28_．An earlier study by Gershon showed that middle-aged mice benefited from exercise if they started exercising young and continued it．
It’s clear that because the tests were done on mice, drawing conclusions about humans is too early．But the studies do not totally _29_the theory that exercise is good under any conditions．Let’s use the tests on mice as a _30__for other studies．
21．A．beneficial B．friendly      C．tiring         D．unhealthy
22．A．made  B．took         C．had        D．brought
23．A．harmed  B．helped         C．improved     D．reduced
24．A．aimed            B．connected     C．indicated     D．represented
25．A．directed   B．driven         C．hung       D．placed
26．A．clean           B．clear          C．proper       D．visible
27．A．breaking         B．failing         C．letting        D．slowing
28．A．body            B．condition       C．situation      D．state
29．A．appreciate        B．assist          C．promote     D．support
30．A．bridge          B．means         C．proposal   D．warning
第二节：语法填空（15分，每小题1．5分）
仔细阅读下面的短文，短文中有10个空格，请按照短文意思填写相应的词，每空一词。答案填写在答题卡标号为31—40的对应位置。
At 3：00 a.m., Jack Mills was sitting at the controls of the mail train. The train was made    31  （副词）of 13 cars． At the end of the train, 71 mailmen sat    32   （sort）the mail．Inside the second car, there were only five mailmen and 128 bags     33   (fill) with five-pound notes．This train had run more than 100 years     34   （介词）being robbed．At three minutes past three, Mills and his helper, David Whitby, saw a yellow warning light．They slowed the train, and then stopped．Whitby went to the telephone beside the track．It was out of    35   （冠词,零冠词用/表示）order．Then he saw a man moving between the second and third cars．     36   （连词）Whitby could give a     37   (warn), he was    38    （短语动词）down by two men．Mills’ cars with all the mailmen had been disconnected by the robbers．At the bridge, the bags of money were unloaded from the train and thrown into waiting trucks．One of the robbers     39  （引导词）obviously knew the schedules (时刻表) of all the trains kept   40    (look) at his watch．At 3:45 he said, “That will have to be enough．”The robbers with more than 2,500,000 pounds!
第三部分：阅读（共40分）
第一节 阅读理解（30分，每小题2分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Two American scientists told the people in industrial nations that they would be much healthier if they ate more of the same kind of foods eaten by humans living more than 10,000 years ago．
The scientists say that the human body has changed very little since human first appeared on earth, but the way we live has changed greatly．Our body has not been able to deal with these changes in life style and this has led to new kinds of sicknesses．These new sicknesses were not known in ancient times．So they are called “diseases of civilization（文明）”．Many cancers and diseases of the blood system, including heart attacks and strokes（中风）are examples of such diseases．
Scientists noted that early stone-age people used very little alcohol（酒精）or tobacco, probably none．Ancient people also got a great deal of physical exercise, but a change in food is one of the main differences between life in ancient times and life today．
Stone-age people hunted wild animals for their meat, which had much less fat than farm animals．They also ate a lot of fresh wild vegetables, and fruits．They did not use milk and other dairy products, and they made very little use of grains．But today, we eat a large amount of dairy products and grain foods．We eat six times more salt than stone-age people．We eat more sugar．We eat twice as much fat but only one third as much protein（蛋白质）and much less vitamin C．
People today probably do not want to live as people thousands of years ago did, but scientists say that we would be much healthier if we ate as those ancient people did, cutting the amount of fatty, salty and sweet foods．
41．The people in industrial nations would be much healthier if they ate        ．
A．more foods as humans living 10,000 years ago did
B．as humans living 10,000 years ago
C．more kinds of food eaten by people living over 10,000 years ago
D．more of the same kinds of foods eaten by people over 10,000 years ago．
42．New kinds of sicknesses have been found because       ．
A．the human body has changed compared with human first appeared on earth
B．the way we live has changed a little
C．our body can’t deal with the changes in life style
D．the way we live today is proper for the human body
43．What is the main cause mentioned in the article why people suffer from a lot of new sicknesses?
A．Ancient people did a great deal of physical exercise
B．People today have a lot of alcohol
C．People today have more tobacco
D．Food is quite different between life today and life in ancient times
44．Stone-age people were much healthier than people today because they ate a lot of       ．
A．milk and other dairy products       B．grain foods and farm animals
C．salt and sugar            D．wild animals, fresh wild vegetables and fruits
45．From this article, we know that         are not good to our health．
A．protein and vitamin C               B．milk and grain foods
C．wild animals, vegetables and fruits     D．a huge amount of fatty, salty and sweet foods
B
Every artist knows in his heart that he is saying something to the public．Not only does he want to say it well, but he wants it to be something which has not been said before．He hopes the public will listen and understand he wants to teach them, and he wants them to learn from him．
What visual（视觉的）artists like painters want to teach is easy to make out but difficult to explain, because painters translate their experiences into shapes and colours, not words．They seem to feel that a certain selection of shapes and colours, out of the countless billions possible, is exceptionally interesting for them and worth showing to us．Without their work we should never have noticed these particular shapes and colours, or have felt the delight which they brought to the artist．
Most artists take their shapes and colours from the world of nature and from human bodies in motion and repose（动态和静态）, their choices indicate that these aspects of the world are worth looking at, that they contain beautiful sights．Contemporary（当代的）artists might say that they merely choose subjects that provide an interesting pattern that there is nothing more in it．Yet even they do choose entirely without reference to the character of their subjects．If one painter chooses to paint a gangrenous（坏疽性的）leg and another a lake in moonlight, each of them is directing our attention to a certain aspect of the world．Each painter is telling us something, showing us something, emphasizing something all of which means that, consciously or unconsciously, he is trying to teach us．
46．It is hard to explain what a painter is saying, because        ．
A．most painters do not express themselves well
B．a painter uses unusual words and phrases
C．a painter uses shapes and colours instead of words
D．many painters do not say anything
47．A painter chooses certain shapes and colours because he feels that they        ．
A．have been used frequently in the past    B．are easy to work with
C．are worth showing to the public         D．will be most attractive to the public
48．The writer says that contemporary artists might say their choice of subject    ．
A．carries a message to the public         B．only provides interesting patterns
C．has no pattern or form                D．teaches the public important truths
49．Compared with a painter of unpleasant subjects, a painter who draws a lake in moonlight is         ．
A．having more meanings               B．pointing out different things
C．more skilled                       D．giving less information
50．Implied（暗示）but not stated: ___________.
A．A painting is more easily understood than a symphony（交响乐）．
B．Art is merely the arranging of shapes and colours．
C．Every artist tries to say something to the public．
D．One must look beyond shape and colour to find what the artist is saying．
C
To master a language one must be able to speak and understand the spoken language as well as to read and write．Lenin and his wife Krupskaya translated a long English book into Russian．But when they went to England in 1980, English people couldn’t understand what was said to them．These days more foreigners are coming to China and more and more Chinese are going out to foreign countries to work or study．So the spoken language is becoming more and more important．
Speaking, of course, can’t go without listening．If you want to pronounce a word correctly, first you must hear it correctly．The sounds of the Chinese and English language are not exactly the same．If you don’t listen carefully, you’ll find it difficult or even impossible to understand the native speakers．
Well, what about writing? Like speaking, it’s to exchange ideas．People generally use shorter words and shorter sentences in their writing．The important thing is to make your idea in your head and then to write it in clear lively language．
Chinese students read far too slowly．If you read fast, you understand better．If you read too slowly, by the time you have reached the end of a page you have forgotten what the beginning is about．When you meet with new words, don’t look them up in the dictionary．Guess the meaning from the context．You may not guess quite correctly the first time, but as new words come up again and again in different contexts, their meaning will become clearer and clearer．If you look up every word, you’ll never finish a book．
Students of a foreign language need a particular knowledge, the knowledge of the life, history and geography of the people whose language they’re studying．They should study these subjects in the foreign language, not only in translation．In this way one can kill two birds with one stone: learn a foreign language and get some knowledge of the foreign country at the same time．
51．How many points are there in the passage?           ．
A．Two              B．Three         C．Four       D．Five
52．In his first point the writer told us        ．
A．how to speak English              B．how to read and write
C．why spoken English is important     D．why English people couldn’t understand Lenin
53．In his last point the writer advised us        ．
A．to kill two birds with one stone
B．to learn two languages at a time
C．to study all the subjects in a foreign language
D．to get some knowledge of the foreign country whose language you are studying．
54．In the fourth paragraph the writer gave some advice on        ．
A．how to read faster
B．how to guess the meaning from the context
C．how to look up new words in the dictionary
D．how to grasp the general meaning of a passage
55．“To kill two birds with on stone” means        ．
A．to get some particular knowledge    B．to get more than what one pays
C．the stone is too big                D．the birds are blind enough