A.
There were some people in the southern part of Greece
called Spartans, who were famous for their simple habits and their bravery(勇敢). The name of the area in which they lived was Laconia, and so they were also called Lacons.
One of the strange rules which the Lacons had was that
they should speak briefly, and never use more words than needed. And so a short
answer is often spoken of as a Loconic answer.
There was in the northern part of Greece a land
called Macedon, and this land was at one time ruled over by a warlike king
named Philip.
Philip wanted to become the master of all Greece. So he
raised a great army, and made war upon the other states, until nearly all of
them were forced to call him their king. Then he sent a letter to the Spartans
in Laconia,
saying, “If I go down into your country, I will level your great city to the
ground.” In a few days, an answer was brought back to him. When he opened the
letter, he found there was only one word. The word was “IF”.
56. It is well known that ________.
A.
Spartans were good at their simple habits and their bravery
B. Spartans were simple and brave
C.
Spartans were hard –working and warlike people
D.
Some people of Spartans were famous for their simple habits and their bravery
57. Spartans were also called Lacons because _______.
A.
the name of the area was Laconia
B.
they lived in Laconia
C.
they lived in Macedon
D.
they lived in the southern part of Greece.
58. A short answer spoken by Spartans is________.
A.
the strange rule
B. often spoken of as a strange answer
C.
often called a Laconic answer D. a
habitual brief sentence
59. Macedon was _______.
A.
all the time ruled over by a warlike king named Philip
B.
ruled over by a king named Philip who had become the master of all Greece.
C.
once ruled by Philip.
D.
called the best part of Greece
60. The
word “If” was the Lacon’s answer to Philip which showed that _______.
A.
the Lacons were afraid of Philip
B. the Spartans were determined to defend
their land
C.
The Lacons didn’t think that Philip really meant to come.
D.
the Spartans answered in this way only to make fun of Philip
B.
Peter King, 15, Mary King,13, went
to see a doctor. Peter had a bad cold, so the doctor gave him some pills to
take. Mary had a bad cough, so the doctor gave her some cough medicine.
These are the words on the
bottle of cough medicine:
Cough Medicine
Shake well before use.
Take three times daily
after meals.
Dose: Adults---2
teaspoonfuls
Children 8-14--- 1 teaspoonful
Children 4-7 ---- 1/2 teaspoonful
Not suitable for
children below the age of 4.
Store in a cold place.
Use
before Dec.2003.
61. Mary should take
______ in a day.
A. 2 teaspoonfuls
B. 3 teaspoonfuls
C. 4 teaspoonfuls
D. 1 teaspoonful
62. Mary should ______
before she takes some of the medicine.
A. shake the medicine
well
B. eat her bread
C. do some exercises
D. drink something
63. People aged _____
cannot take this medicine.
A. 80
B. 15
C. 20 D.
3
64. Mary or her mother
should ______ the medicine left after Dec.2003.
A. throw away
B. take two times
C. stop to take
D. take three times more
C.
Since
telegrams(电报) are paid by the words, every
word costs money, and people always try to use as few words as possible. Little
words like “a”, “an” and “the” disappear, so do all the auxiliary verbs that
English students hate: do, does, are is… So a news reporter who wanted to know
how old the film star Cary Grant was, sent a
telegram saying,” How old Cary
Grant?”
Unfortunately, although the “little words” have gone, nobody knows
exactly where they have gone from. So the reporter received a reply from Cary Grant which said, “ Old Cary Grant fine. How you?”
But
perhaps the shortest telegram in the English language was from Oscar Wilder. He
was living in Paris and he cabled(给…拍电报) his publisher in Britain to see how his new book was doing. The
message read: “?”. The Publisher cabled back: “!”
65. People try to use as few
words as possible when they cable because ______.
A. they want to
save money
B. they think it
unnecessary to use “little words”
C. few words can
make every thing clear
D. they hate to
use auxiliary verbs
66. What does “!” mean in
the last paragraph ? It means “______”.
A. Yes
B. Excellent
C. No
D. I don’t know
67. According to the passage
we can see that using as few words as possible sometimes will _______.
A. be
useless
B. help us a lot
C. cause
trouble
D. waste time
68. What is the best title
for this passage?
A. Films
Reporter and Film Stars
B. The Shortest
Telegram in the World
C. The Use of “
Little Words”
D. Language of
Telegram
D.
Wind , rain and water break rock into smaller pieces. When the pieces
are less than one-tenth of an inch wide, they are called sand. So sand can be
found wherever rocks have been open to water or the air.
The beach by the sea is covered with sand. There the rocks have been
broken by the tide from the sea.
Much of the sand in deserts has been carried by wind. Sometimes the
desert sands were formed by the decay(腐烂) of rocks.
Some deserts were once sea bottoms; the sea water went away and left sand.
69. The passage mainly tells us _______.
A. the size of
sand
B. the change of sea
C. how sand is
formed
D. the decay of rocks
70. Which of the following
is the most important to form sand?
A. water and air
B. wind and snow
C. the tide and
salt
D. Temperature
71. Sand can’t be found
where ________.
A. there’s much
water
B. on the bottom of the sea
C. in some of
the deserts
D. rocks are not open to the air
72. The passage suggests(暗示，表明) that we can see much sand in
_______.
A. big
forests
B. mountain areas
C. small
villages
D. beaches and deserts
E.
For
hundreds of years, the only means of distance communication was through
newspaper, books and letters. People who live in remote areas sometimes has to
wait for days and even weeks before they found out what was happening in the
outside world.
The
first steps towards a faster means of communication was made in 1838 with the
invention of telegraph. The major problem was that it was not possible to send
human voice by this system. An artificial language called “Morse Code” was
developed. With the introduction of the telephone in 1876, however, people
could talk to each other over long distances using the human voice.
The development of the telegraph and the telephone helped to keep people
to date with what was happening in the world. The problem of both systems was
that all messages had to go through wires. Wires(电缆，电线) are expensive to lay , and easily broken. The problem is worse
when wires are laid under the sea. The telephone wire between Australia and Canada is 9,000 miles long (14,480km), and most of it is
under the sea. When underwater wires are broken, perhaps by large fish or by
movements in the earth, it is difficult to find the break, and expensive to
repair it.
Current research in telephone communications is so extensive and
changes are coming about rapidly that no one can describe exactly what the
telephone of tomorrow will look like. But people believe there will be more and
more telephones in the future, and they will be better ones.
73. Hundreds of years
ago, it took days and even weeks _______.
A.
to receive message
B. to get things
C.
to arrive
D. to wait
74.
It was impossible to send voice by ______.
A. mobile phone
B. wireless phone
C. radio
D. telegraph
75. The word “extensive” in the last
paragraph means________.
A. 昂贵的
B.便宜的
C. 广泛的
D. 方便的
第一学期期中考试
高三英语试卷
I. 1. (A)(B)(C) 2.(A)(B)(C) 3.(A)(B)(C)
4. (A)(B)(C) 5.(A)(B)(C) 6.(A)(B)(C)
7. (A)(B)(C) 8.(A)(B)(C) 9.(A)(B)(C)
10.(A)(B)(C) 11.(A)(B)(C)12.(A)(B)(C)
13.(A)(B)(C) 14.(A)(B)(C)15.(A)(B)(C)
16.(A)(B)(C) 17.(A)(B)(C)18.(A)(B)(C)
19.(A)(B)(C) 20.(A)(B)(C)
