郑州市郑州四中2014届高三第三次调考(英语)2

郑州市郑州四中2014届高三第三次调考（英语）2

高考英语

2014-03-18 2227

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TOKYO – The number of domestic infections cases of influenza A/H1N1 in Japan hits 42 on Sunday after a total of 34 people in Osaka and Hyogo counties were confirmed to have been infected, local media reported.

The total number of the infection in the country now stands at 46, including the first four cases contracted abroad.

The country is now facing the risk of grass-root outbreak which could lead the WHO to raise its new flu pandemic alert（传染病预警）to the highest level of 6 from the current 5, experts has warned.

The 34 newly confirmed domestic cases, 11 in Osaka and 23 in Hyogo, included high school students, college students and teachers, the health ministry and local governments said Sunday.

Japan on Saturday confirmed the first eight cases of domestic infection on students of a Kobe high school. The later confirmed cases in Osaka are said to have contacted the Kobe students in a volleyball match. Osaka and Hyogo are neighboring in the Kansai region.

All of the 42 people had no record of overseas travel.

Meanwhile, a total of 143 students at the Kansai Okura Senior High School where many infections in Osaka were found, have shown symptoms of influenza since around Monday, according to local media reports.

The privately run school said it will be closed from Monday through Saturday.

More than 1,000 educational facilities -- kindergartens, and elementary, junior and senior high schools – in Osaka and Hyogo counties have decided to suspend classes for certain periods

following the confirmation of new flu infections in the counties,

Kyodo News reported.

The two counties have requested private schools to follow suit. Osaka Governor Toru Hashimoto held a meeting of a new flu task force

on Sunday and decided to ask facilities such as movie theaters to suspend operations to prevent the spread of the flu.

TV clips showed people in Kansai region started to wear masks in public spaces and rushed to drug stores for buying medicines.

The Japanese government on Saturday shifted the stage of its new-flu action program from “a period of overseas outbreak” to “a period of domestic outbreak” and called for companies and schools in the areas concerned to allow individuals to avoid commuting（出行）

during rush hours.

The Kyodo News quoted Masato Tashiro, a member of the World Health Organization's emergency committee, as saying that several hundred people in Japan already may have been infected with the new flu.

48. According to the passage, the total number of the A/H1N1

infection in Japan now is _______.

A. 42

B. 34

C. 46

D. 143

49. The reasons for the happening of the later confirmed cases in Osaka are the following EXCEPT________.

A. 143 students at the Kansai Okura Senior High School have shown symptoms of influenza.

B. Some students in a Kobe High school got infected.

C. Osaka and Hyogo are next to each other in the Kansai region.

D. The later infected people contacted the Kobe students in a volleyball match.

50. What is the implied meaning of what Masato Tashiro said in the last paragraph?

A. The real situation about the new flu in Japan may be worse than it has been reported.

B. Several hundred people have been infected but they don’t know it.

C. The WHO has to raise its new flu pandemic alert to the highest level.

D. The WHO’s emergency committee are trying to confirm the number of infection in Japan.

51. The purpose of the passage is ______.

A. to introduce the domestic infection cases in Japan.

B. to draw people’s attention to the wo rsening situation.

C. to give some advice on preventing the spread of the flu.

D. to call for educational facilities in Japan to suspend classes for some time.

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How Room Designs Affect Our Work and Feeling

Architects have long had the feeling that the place we live in can affect our thoughts, feeling and behaviors. But now scientists are giving this feeling an empirical（经验的，实证的）basis. They are discovering how to design spaces that promote creativity, keep people focused, and lead to relaxation.

Researches show that aspects of the physical environment can influence creativity. In 2014, Joan Meyers-Levy at the University of Minnesota, reported that the height of a room’s ceiling affects how people think. Her research indicates that higher ceilings encourage people to think more freely, which may lead them to make more abstract connections. Low ceilings, on the other hand, may inspire a more detailed outlook.

In addition to ceiling height, the view afforded by a building may influence an occupant’s ability to c oncentrate. Nancy Wells and her colleagues at Cornell University result of a family move made the most gains on a standard test of attention.

Using nature to improve focus of attention ought to pay off academically, and it seems to, according to a study led by C. Kenneth Tanner, head of the School Design & Planning Laboratory at the

University of Georgia. Tanner and his team found that higher scores on tests of vocabulary, language arts and maths than did students whose classrooms primarily overlooked roads and parking lots.

Recent study on room lighting design suggests that dim（暗淡的）light helps people to loosen up. If that is true generally, keeping the light low during dinner, or at parties could increase relaxation. Researchers of Harvard Medical School also discovered that furniture with rounded edges could help visitors relax.

So far scientists have focused mainly on public buildings. “We have a very limited number of studies, so we are almost looking at the problem through a straw（吸管）” architect David Allison says; “How do you take answers to very specific questions and make broad, generalize use of them?”That is what we are all struggling with”

52. What does Joan Meyers-Levy focus on in her research?

A. Light

B. Ceilings.

C. Windows.

D. Furniture

53．The passage tells us that____________.

A．the shape of furniture may affect people’s feelings

B．lower ceilings may help improve students’ creativity

C．children in a dim classroom may improve their grades

D．students in rooms with unblocked views may feel relaxed

54．The underlined sentence in the last paragraph probably mean

that_______.

A．the problem is not approached step by step

B．the researches so far have faults in themselves

C．the problem is too difficult for researchers to detect

D．research in this area is not enough to make generalized patterns

55．Which of the following shows the organization of the passage?

CP ：Central Point Ppoint SP： Sub-point（次要点） C：Conclusion

郑州四中2014届高三上学期第三次调研考试

英语试卷

第II卷（共二大题，满分35分）

第三部分写作（共两节，满分35分）

第一节短文改错（共2014小题；每小题1分，满分2014分）

Time is valuable but limit. There’s a famous

saying, 56．________

“Time is money”, this shows the importance of time.

When 57．________

time has gone, it will never return

back. 58．________

It is a pity when many people make poor use of time. They

59．________

spend precious time sleeping, drinking and traveling. 60．________

They don’t realize wasting time is equal to waste part of their life. 61．________

They always regret having made a little achievement so

far. 62．_______

Besides, we should form the habit of valuing time.

Don’t 63．________

put off what can be done today until tomorrow. Laziness 64．________

will not only bring us failure, but also lead us on the road

of 65．________

poverty and even death.

第二节书面表达（满分25分）

观察下面的一幅漫画，用英语写一篇20140字左右题为“Birds with Weak Wings”的短文。

要求：1、简要描述漫画内容；

2、说明图示所反映的社会现状；

3、发表自己的观点和看法。

4、参考词汇：农民工（off-farm workers）

参考答案

单项填空 1-5 BADCA 6-2014 CDDAC 11-15 DCABB

完形填空 16-20 BCADB 21-25 BBBBA 26-30 CDCAC

31-35 BCBAC

阅读理解 36-39 DAAC 40-43 BCDA 44-47 BACA

48-51 CAAB 52-55 BADC

短文改错56. limit → limited57. this → which58. return → turn 或去掉back 59. when → that 60. spend ∧precious →

their 61．waste → wasting 62．去掉a 63. Besides → Therefore 64．√ 65．on→ to

书面表达One possible version

There stands a tall tree in which there is a beautiful house called the city’s primary school. Under it, five little birds, on whose backs are written five characters which mean “children of off-farm workers”, are sitting on the ground, with their eyes looking at the house well above. How they want to fly into the house, but their wings are too weak.

As we know, a lot of off-farm workers come to cities to earn their living. They try their best to serve the city, but they can’t afford the expensive schooling for their children.

I hope there will be enough schools for the off-farm workers’ children. Only in this way can we enjoy a better life together.

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