1、高三英语上学期周练试题114河北定州中学2016-2017学年第一学期高三英语周练试题（8）一、单项选择题1 Studying in our newly-built school is so wonderful a period _ every one of us will treasure forever.A. that B. as C. which D. when2 It was sad to me that they, so poor themselves, _ bring me food.A. might B. would C. could D. should3 Shall I ope
2、n the window to let some fresh air in? No，_ .A. Id rather not B. Id rather you notC. Id rather you didnt D. Id like not to4I _ along the pavement yesterday when some stranger came up and asked me the way to the nearest hospital.A. am wandering B. was wanderingC. has wandered D. had wandered5There is
3、 no power like _ power of confidence, and there is no student as competitive as _ student who trusts his own abilities.A. the; a B. a; the C. /; a D. the; /6The speaker mentioned many examples people lived through hard times and succeeded at lastAwhich Bwhose Cwhen Dwhere7Not only the USA and Russia
4、 but also China _ manned satellites to circle the earth.A.has sent up B. has been sent upC. have sent up D. had been sent up8 Little Jim to my home after he broke my mobile phone by accident.A. dared not to come B. dared not comingC. dared not come D. didnt dare coming9- What a speech he has deliver
5、ed!- Really good! I could hardly imagine myself to make a speech in public.A. make B. to make C. making D. being made10The job is not very rewarding _ money, but he is getting valuable experience from itAin memory of Bin terms ofCin charge of Din search of11When is Amy flying to Beijing on Saturday?
6、Her flight at 7:00 a.m.A. takes off B. took offC. taking off D. take off12_, the idea of having to work under a woman was more than he could stand.A. Wanting the job very muchB. Though he wanted the job very muchC. Although wanting the job very muchD. He wanted the job badly13The pianist _ a love fo
7、r music when he was a little boy.A. develops B. has developedC. developed D. had developed14I didnt expect Jack was absent from my birthday party yesterday.As far as I know, he _ to see his parents in Shanghai at the weekends.A. goes B. wentC. has gone D. had gone15-Well, guess what! I came across m
8、y primary school teacher when I was visiting the Frick Collection in Manhattan.- Really? _.A. Its really a piece of cake.B. Its a small world.C. Its a long time.D. Its a once-in-a-lifetime chance.16In your life, sometimes you might end up back_ you started.A. which B. when C. where D. who17Jack trie
9、d to play a trick _ his sister but she wasnt taken _ .A. by; on B. in; inC. on; in D. on; on18One more day, Ill get everything resdy.A. or B. while C. and D. but19While shopping, people sometimes cant help_ into buying something they dont really need.A. to persuade B. persuadingC. be persuaded D. be
10、ing persuaded 20 Never before in our country _.A. has such a thing happened B. such a thing has happenedC. has so a thing happened D. so a thing has happened二、阅读理解The most frightening words in the English language are, “Our computer is down.” You hear it more and more when you are on business. The o
11、ther day I was at the airport waiting for a ticket to Washington and the girl in the ticket office said, “Im sorry, I cant sell you a ticket. Our computer is down.”“If your computer is down, just write me out a ticket.”“I cant write you out a ticket. The computer is the only one allowed to do so.”I
12、noticed every passenger was just standing there drinking coffee and staring at the black screen. Then I looked down on the computer and asked her, “What do all you people do?”“We give the computer the information about your trip, and then it tells us whether you can fly with us or not.”“So when it g
13、oes down, you go down with it.”“Thats good, sir.”“How long will the computer be down? I wanted to know.”“I have no idea. Sometimes its down for 10 minutes, sometimes for two hours. Theres no way we can find out without asking the computer, and since its down it wont answer us.”After the girl told me
14、 they had no backup computer, I said. “Lets forget the computerWhat about your planes? They are still flying, arent they?”“I couldnt tell without asking the computer.”“Maybe I could, just go to the gate and ask the pilot if he is flying to Washington,” I suggested.“I wouldnt know what gate to send y
15、ou to. Even if the pilot was going to Washington, he couldnt take you if you didnt have a ticket.”“Is there any other airline flying to Washington within the next few hours?”“I wouldnt know,” she said, pointing at the dark screen. “Only IT knows. It cant tell me.”By this time there were quite a few
16、people standing in lines. The words soon spread to other travelers that the computer was down. Some people went white, some people started to cry and still others kicked their luggage.21Where do you often hear the frightening words “Our computer is down”?Aat the airport. BAt the gate.COn business DI
17、n the ticket office22What could the girl in the ticket office do without asking the computer?AShe could do nothing.BShe could write out a ticket.CShe could still sell a ticket.DShe could answer passengers questions.23What does the underlined word “down” in Paragraph 1 mean?AWhite BBroken CBlack DDar
18、k24We can learn from the last paragraph that .Aa modern computer wont be downBcomputers can take the place of humanCthere will be great changes in computersDsometimes a computer may bring suffering to peopleTwo people have died after two separate university shootings in Texas and Arizona, just hours
19、 apart One person was killed and three injured in the first shooting at Northern Arizona University early on Friday Later that morning a shooting at a student complex near Texas Southern University left one person dead In Arizona, police named the gunman there as Steven Jones, an 18-year-old first y
20、ear student at Northern Arizona UniversityMr Jones told police he was approached by a group of men and attacked He fled, produced a gun from his pocket and opened fire when the men caught up with him, Arizona police said Witnesses told police that the victims were unarmed The second shooting in Texa
21、s happened later on Friday morning at the University Courtyard Apartments on the edge of the Houston campus One student was killed, a freshman at the school, the university confirmed, and another person was wounded Two people have been arrested as suspects and a third is still at large, said Houston
22、 police spokeswoman Jodi Silva The attacks came as President Barack Obama visited families of victims of a college shooting in Oregon On arriving in Oregon, he was jeered(嘲笑) by gun rights activists who oppose calls he made for tougher gun laws after nine people were killed at Umpqua Community Colle
23、ge, Roseburg, last weekAfter a private meeting with families, Mr Obama said he had strong feelings about gun control, adding: We are going to have to come together as a country to see how we can prevent these issues from taking place”On the edge of this little American town, a few hundred protestors
24、 gathered to tell their president he was not welcome Many were openly carrying handguns to hammer home their message The demonstrators blamed the shooting here last week on two things: a failure to treat mental health problems and the designation of Umpqua Community College as a gun-free zone Many o
25、f those we spoke to said they had travelled to Roseburg from elsewhere in Oregon to make their voices hear The hostility to the Democratic president here in Republican rural Oregon was not just political, it was personal25How many people were dead in these two recent university shootings?A OneB TwoC
26、 ThreeD Four26Which of the following is right about the Northern Arizona University shooting?A The gunman was about to graduateB It was the victims who started the fightC The gunman shot the victims out of hatrd D The victims attacked the gunman with knives27Mr Obama probably agreed that _A gun cont
27、rol is too strict in most parts of America, especially in universitiesB designation of Umpqua community college as a gun-free zone is a wrong decisionC Americans should be united to prevent criminal shooting from happening so frequentlyD A failure to treat mental health problems caused the shooting
28、at Umpqua Community College28The underlined words in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to _A emphasizeB digestC commitD respondCheaters called “pirates” often use camcorders(便携式摄像机) and cell phones to make illegal copies of blockbusters(大片) in the local theater. These pirates then sell those
29、recordings on the street or over the Internet for very low prices. Some share them for free.“Its unfair for people to pirate movies, ” says 15-year-old Hadaia Azad Ezzulddin. Movie piracy “takes money out of the pockets of thousands of people in the movie industry,” she notes. Victims include famous
30、 actors and directors as well as local theater owners and their employees.Hadaia came up with an idea that could help stop movie piracy. Hadaias idea uses infrared(红外线的) light. This range of light is invisible to the human eye. It is visible, however, to many types of cameras. Theater owners could p
31、lace small infrared lights on their movie screens. The lights would not disturb people watching the movie. It would, however, distort the recordings made by many types of cameras.To test her idea, Hadaia built a box with a movie screen inside. Then, she projected images on that screen through a hole in the box. She took recordings of those images, using nine different types of cameras. These included the types found in cell phones
