1、英语广东省六校联盟届高三上学期第三次联考2016届“六校联盟”高三第三次联考英语试题 命题学校：深圳实验 2015，12，18本试卷共8页，三大题，满分120分。考试用时120分钟。第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30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。AShenzhen, one of the biggest cities in the south of China, is nicknamed the heaven of shopping. It attracts millions of visitors
2、every year from all over the world. There are a large number of shopping malls to suit different tastes for tourists and guests to shop. Here are some great places where you can shop in Shenzhen. MixC The magnificent MixC shopping mall is one of Shenzhens oldest shopping malls, providing an electric
3、 mix of exciting stores and fun amusements! MixC is located at No.1881 Shen Nan East Road and owns a mixture of retail boutiques (时装店), like Footlocker and Ashley Stewart. You can visit MixC Mondays through Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m., and Sundays from noon to 10:00 p.m. KK MallThe newes
4、t and trendiest shopping destination in the city is KK Mall. This shopping mall has all your national favorites like Dillards, Barnes & Noble and Target as well as a great restaurant selection. KK Mall is open from 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays and 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 on Sundays.C
5、oco Park On the crossing of Fuhua Road and Jintian Road stands the Coco Park shopping mall. Children like riding on the malls mini train while adults like to shop and socialize. Movie fans will like knowing that the Broadway Cinema in Coco Park has a 24 screen AMC theatre. You can visit this mall fr
6、om 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays, and Sundays from noon to 9:30 p.m.Coastal CityCoastal City shopping mall, located in Nanshan District of Shenzhen, is the largest shopping mall in the city with 70 shops including such stores as Lowes, Wal-Mart Super Center, Pet Smart and Old Nav
7、y. All these shops can be found at the open-air plaza. The malls 14 modern theaters are a great attraction for movie buffs. Coastal Citys hours of operation are 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays and 11:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. on Sundays.1.If you want to enjoy a good dining during shoppi
8、ng you can go to _.A.KK Mall B. Coastal City C. Coco Park D. MixC2.Children would like to visit Coco Park probably because_.A. they can buy a lot of wonderful toys B. they can take the mini train thereC. they can play their favorite computer games D. they can make many friends there3.What is probabl
9、y a good time to visit Coastal City on Sundays? A. 10:00 a.m. B. 8:30 a.m. C. 9:00 a.m. D. 6:30 p.m.BTwo girls are getting closer to achieving their dream, and their inspirational story is already a big success. On Oct 3, the US TV show 2 Broke Girls celebrated its 100th episode, and its fifth seaso
10、n began on Nov 12. The show has been successful because it shows how difficult it is for those on a low income to realize the American Dream. In the show, Max Black is a diner waitress in Brooklyn, New York. Despite her strong personality, Max feels she is going to live a life of debt, bad jobs and
11、no future. The other main character in the show is newly-hired waitress Caroline Channing, who was a billionaires daughter with no real job. But now she is broke and homeless because her father was arrested for financial fraud (诈骗). While Max had been poor for a long time when the show began, Caroli
12、ne was not ready for the hard reality of being broke. On her first day of work, Caroline made just $2 in tips through incompetent job performance. However, as a clever graduate of the Wharton School of Business, she also made more than $300 selling Maxs cupcakes at a high price. The two soon became
13、friends, roommates and business partners with the goal of earning $250,000 to open their own cupcake shop. To let fans know how the girls are doing, each episode ends with a title card showing the current total of the money they have saved. The situation that the two girls find themselves in comes f
14、rom the 2008 economic crisis, a problem that meant that people in the US who once had a lot of money ended up in the same position as people who never had anything at all. As Alyssa Rosenberg noted in The Atlantic magazine, “2 Broke Girls is about how people (not the super-rich) began to see themsel
15、ves as part of the same uncertain economy, rather than divided into working-class, middle-class and others.”4. What is the passage mainly about? A. The pure friendship of two American girls from different classes. B. The unique characteristics of two American girls from different classes. C. How two
16、 American girls overcome their parents disapproval to do business. D. How two American girls from different classes struggle to start a business? 5. In the TV show, Max Black and Caroline Channing _. A. have more or less similar families and education backgrounds. B. are both clever, optimistic and
17、ambitious school graduates. C. have different personalities but share the same dream. D. save a large amount of money by working in a cupcake shop. 6. What is the social problem reflected in this TV show according to the passage? A. In the US, the poor suffered more than the wealthy in the 2008 econ
18、omic crisis. B. The 2008 economic crisis put everybody in the US in the same position. C. The 2008 economic crisis somewhat bridged the gap between the rich and the poorD. Some people suffered from the 2008 economic crisis, but others benefited greatly. 7. The best title of the passage can be _. A.
19、An American Dream B. Two Dreaming GirlsC. Poor Americans Dream D. Waitresses of The DreamCMany years later as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buenda was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. At that time Macondo was a village of twenty mud brick ho
20、uses, built on the bank of a river of clear water that ran along a bed of polished stones. The world was so recent that many things lacked names. Every year during the month of March a family of ragged gypsies (吉普赛人) would set up their tents near the village, and with a great sound of pipes and kett
21、ledrums they would display new inventions. First they brought the magnet. A heavy gypsy with a wild beard and sparrow hands, who introduced himself as Melquades, put on a public presentation he himself called the eighth wonder of the learned alchemists (炼金术士) of Macedonia. He went from house to hous
22、e dragging two metal pieces and everybody was amazed to see iron things drop down from their places and even iron objects that had been lost for a long time appeared from where they had been searched for most. Things have a life of their own, the gypsy said, Its simply a matter of waking up their so
23、uls. Jos Arcadio Buenda thought it would be possible to make use of that useless invention to extract gold from inside the earth. Melquades warned him: It wont work for that. But Jos Arcadio Buenda did not believe in the honesty of gypsies, so he traded his horse and a pair of goats for the two magn
24、etized pieces. Jos Arcadio Buendas wife, rsula Iguarn, who relied on those animals to increase their poor family condition, was unable to persuade him. For several months he worked hard to explore every inch of the region, even the riverbed, with a shovel, dragging the two iron pieces along and reci
25、ting Melquades incantation (咒语) aloud. The only thing he succeeded in doing was to unearth a suit fifteenth-century armor (铠甲) which had all of its pieces connected together with rust. When he managed to take the armor apart, he found inside a skeleton with a copper box containing a womans hair arou
26、nd its neck.8. Which of the following about Jos Arcadio Buenda is TRUE?A. He was a villager from Macondo, a remote village where gypsies lived. B. He wanted to make money with the two metal pieces bought from the gypsy. C. He lived in Macondo with rsula Iguarn for several months to extract gold. D.
27、He traded his horse and a goat for magnets and finally found a valuable armor.9. What can we infer from Paragraph 2?A. Colonel Aureliano Buenda missed his father. B. Melquades settled in the village with his family.C. rsula Iguarn was unwilling to buy the metal pieces. D. Melquades was proud of the
28、two metal pieces. 10.The underlined word in the last paragraph means_. A. knock out B. find out C. dig out D. turn out11. According to the passage, which of the following is WRONG?A. Macondo was a village built on the riverside with a small population.B. A skeleton inside the old armor was discovere
29、d by Jos Arcadio Buenda. C. Some gypsies thought that things in the world had souls of their own. D. Macondo villagers hated gypsies because they always cheated them. DThe word “super-material” gets thrown around a lot these days: ceramic super-materials, aerogel super materials, elastomeric super m
30、aterial. But one super-material beats them all, earning its discoverers a Nobel Prize and defining the upper limit for scientific excitement. Its called graphene (石墨烯), the granddaddy of the modern boom in materials science.Graphene was accidentally discovered in 2010 by two scientists, Andre Geim a
31、nd Kostya Novoselov, at Manchester University, UK. What exactly is it? The idea is easy enough to come up with: what if we could take a diamond and cut it into pieces justone atom thick? This would make it a so-called “two-dimensional” substance, made entirely out of carbon, yet flexible in a way th
32、atdiamond cannot be. It not only has the incredible physical properties youd expect from the strongest materials, but also has unbelievably high electrical conductivity (传导性). Being atomically small, graphene is suitable for a wide range of applications - not least in electronics. It allows many industries to take huge steps forward. Theresbioengineering, where scientists hope to use graphenesunbelievably smal
