2015届高三上学期英语第二次周考试卷（含答案）

Ⅰ阅读理解(共18小题;每小题2分，满分36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。

A

One day, when I was working as a psychologist in England, an adolescent boy showed up in my office. It was David. He kept walking up and down restlessly, his face pale, and his hands shaking slightly. His head teacher had "referred him to me." This boy has lost his family," he wrote." He is understandably very sad and refuses to talk to others, and I'm very worried about him. Can you help?"

I looked at David and showed him to a chair. How could I help him? There are problems psychology doesn't have the answer to, and which no words can describe. Sometimes the best thing one can do is to listen openly and sympathetically.

The first two times we met, David didn't say a word. He sat there, only looking up to look at the children's drawings on the wall behind me. I suggested we play a game of chess. He nodded. After that he played chess with me every Wednesday afternoon--in complete silence and without looking at me. It's not easy to cheat in chess, but I admit I made sure David won once or twice.

Usually, he arrived earlier than agreed, took the chess board and pieces from the shelf and began setting them up before I even got a chance to sit down. It seemed as if he enjoyed my company. But why did he never look at me?

"Perhaps he simply needs someone to share his pain with," I thought." Perhaps he senses that I respect his suffering." Some months later, when we were playing chess, he looked up at me suddenly.

"It's your turn," he said.

After that day, David started talking. He got friends in school and joined a bicycle club. He wrote to me a few times, about his biking with some friends, and about his plan to get into university. Now he had really started to live his own life.

Maybe I gave David something. But I also learned that one--without any words--can reach out to another person. All it takes is a hug, a shoulder to cry on, a friendly touch, and an ear that listens.

l. When he first met the author, David_____________.

A. felt a little excited      B. walked energetically

C. looked a little nervous     D. showed up with his teacher

2.As a psychologist, the author _______________.

A. was ready to listen to David    B. was skeptical about psychology

C. was able to describe David's problem           D. was sure of handling David's problem

3.David enjoyed being with the author because he______________.

A. wanted to ask the author for advice

B. needed to share sorrow with the author

C. liked the children's drawings in the office

B

It is widely known that any English conversation begins with The Weather. Such a fixation with the weather finds expression in Dr. Johnson's famous comment that "When two English meet, their first talk is of weather." Though Johnson' s observation is as accurate now as it was over two hundred years ago, most commentators fail to come up with a convincing explanation for this English weather-speak.

Bill Bryson, for example, concludes that, as the English weather is not at all exciting, the obsession with it can hardly be understood. He argues that "To an outsider, the most striking thing about the English weather is that there is not very much of it." Simply, the reason is that the unusual and unpredictable weather is almost unknown in the British Isles.

Jeremy Paxman, however, disagrees with Bryson, arguing that the English weather is by nature attractive. Bryson is wrong, he says, because the English preference for the weather has nothing to do with the natural phenomena. "The interest is less in the phenomena themselves, but in uncertainty." According to him, the weather in England is very changeable and uncertain and it attracts the English as well as the outsider.

Bryson and Paxman stand for common misconceptions about the weather-speak among the English. Both commentators, somehow, are missing the point. The English weather conversation is not really about the weather at all. English weather-speak is a system of signs, which is developed to help the speakers overcome the natural reserve and actually talk to each other. Everyone knows conversations starting with weather-speak are not requests for weather data. Rather , they are routine greetings, conversation starters or the blank "fillers". In other words, English weather-speak is a means of social bonding.

6.The author mentions Dr. Johnson's comment to show that__________

A. most commentators agree with Dr. Johnson

B. Dr. Johnson is famous for his weather observation

C. the comment was accurate two hundred years ago

D. English conversations usually start with the weather

7.What does the underlined word "obsession" most probably refer to?

A. A social trend.        B. An emotional state.

C. A historical concept.      D. An unknown phenomenon.

8.According to the passage, Jeremy Paxman believes that

A. Bill Bryson has little knowledge of the weather

B. there is nothing special about the English weather

C. the English weather attracts people to the British Isles

D. English people talk about the weather for its uncertainty

9.What is the author' s main purpose of writing the passage?

A. To explain what English weather- speak is about.

B. To analyse misconceptions about the English weather.

C. To find fault with both Bill Bryson and Jeremy Paxman.

D. To convince people that the English weather is changeable.

C

It's such a happy-looking library, painted yellow, decorated with palm-tree stickers and  sheltered from the Florida sun by its own roof. About the size of a microwave oven, it's pedestrian friendly, too, waiting for book lovers next to a sidewalk in Palm Beach Country Estates, along the  northern boundary of Palm Beach Gardens.

It's a library built with love.

A year ago, shortly after Janey Henriksen saw a Brian Williams report about the Little Free  Library organization, a Wisconsin-based nonprofit that aims to promote literacy and build a sense of  community in a neighborhood by making books freely available, she announced to her family of four,   "That's what we're going to do for our spring break!"

Son Austin, now a 10th-grader, didn’t see the point of building a library that resembles a  mailbox. But Janey insisted, and husband Peter unwillingly got to work. The 51-year-old owner of a   ship supply company modified a small wooden house that he' d built years earlier for daughter Abbie's

toy horses, and made a door of glass.

After adding the library's final touches (装点), the family hung a signboard on the front,   instructing users to "take a book, return a book," and making the Henriksen library, now one of   several hundred like it nationwide and among more than 2,500 in the world, the only Little Free   Library in Palm Beach County.

They stocked it with 20 or so books they' d already read, a mix of science fiction, reference  titles, novels and kids' favorites. "I told them, keep in mind that you might not see it again," said   Janey, a stay-at-home mom.

Since then, the collection keeps replenishing (补充) itself, thanks to ongoing donations from   borrowers. The library now gets an average of five visits a day.

The project' s best payoff, says Peter, are the thank-you notes left behind." We had no idea in   the beginning that it would be so popular."

10.In what way is the library "pedestrian-friendly"?

A. It owns a yellow roof.      B. It stands near a sidewalk.

C. It protects book lovers from the sun.  D. It uses palm-tree stickers as decorations.

11.Janey got the idea to build a library from _________________

A. a visit to Brian Williams

B. a spring break with her family

C. a book sent by one of her neighbors

D. a report on a Wisconsin-based organization

12.The library was built _______________.

A. by a ship supply company      B. on the basis of toy horses

C. like a mailbox       D. with glass

13.What can we infer about the signboard?

A. It was made by a user of the library.

B. It marked a final touch to the library.

C. It aimed at making the library last long.

D. It indicated the library was a family property.

14.The passage tells us that the users ____________.

A. donate books to the library

B. get paid to collect books for the library

C. receive thank-you notes for using the library

D. visit the library over 5 times on average daily

D

Fun Day

To celebrate the Year of the Snake

Organised by Lam Tin Youth Centre and Kwun Tong High School

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*For those who would like to be a volunteer please contact Miss Olivia Wong one week before the activity.

15.What you have just read is a____________

A. note     B. report    C.schedule   D. poster

16.What is going to take place on 2 February,2013?

A.A big event to welcome a Chinese new year.

B.A social gathering to raise money for wildlife.