高三英语上册期中考试试题

A. poem        B. rhythm       C. recording         D. song

38. From the passage we can know that Brian Phelps ________.

A. broke a record in Rome

B. ranked third in the 1960 Summer Olympics

C. was three years older than Tom

D. held the record for sixteen years

39. Which is TRUE about Tom’s experience?

A. Being the youngest athlete to attend the Beijing Olympics.

B. Winning a medal in the Youth Olympics.

C. Being Britain’s youngest male medalist.

D. Doing very well in the Beijing Olympics.

40. What would be the best title for the text?

A. Tom and his fellow sportsmen.

B. Tom and his new swimming record.

C. A thirteen-year-old swimming success.

D. European swimming championships.

B

About one-third of primary school students aged 7-12 years old use cellphones; by the time they get to high school that figure has shot up to 96 percent, according to a government survey released. They’re using their phones to read books, listen to music, chat with friends and surf the Internet---an average of 124 minutes a day for high school girls and 92 minutes for boys.

While the wired world they now inhabit holds enormous advantages for learning and communicating, it also brings a downside. It becomes a weapon that children can hold against each other with no thought for the consequences. A girl doing the bullying (威吓)confessed (承认) it made her feel good to see the unease spreading on her friend’s face..

The cellphones will eventually become their main means of communication. Education professor Tetsuro Saito said a survey of 1600 middle school students aged around 14 found about 60 percent carried cellphones and nearly half used them to send 20 or more emails a day.

Most middle school cellphone users rarely used their phones to talk, the survey found. Saito said children seemed to want the security of communicating with someone, without the bother of dealing with a real person.

“Communication ability is bound to decline as cellphones and other devices are now getting between people,” he said.

Tonny, a student, said, “I send some 20 emails a day. There’re people I don’t talk with---even if I see them at school. I just exchange emails with them. I guess we’re connected only by a machine.”

Saito’s survey found that students can also use their cellphones as an emotional support. More than 60 percent of students who said they don’t enjoy being with their families send 20 or more emails a day, compared with 35 percent of those happy with their families.

41. High school students use their cellphones in many fields EXCEPT _________.

A. in their studies              B. in communication

C. in entertainment              D. in committing crimes

42. Though cellphones play an important role, they also bring

disadvantages like ________.

A. a rise in teenagers’ emotional problems and bullying

B. a rise in the conflicts between teenagers and their parents

C. a growing teenagers’ inability to get along well with others

D. an increasing number of teenagers playing games on the phones

43. One of the reasons why students like using cellphones to communicate is that _______.

A. they feel it embarrassing to deal with others face to face

B. they like to make others feel unease with their phones

C. they feel safer to use cellphones than meet a real person

D. they feel it more convenient to send emails with cellphones

44. According to Saito’s survey, middle school students ________.

A. use cellphones mainly to talk about their studies with each other

B. get more dependent on phones as their problems at home increase

C. often use cellphones to talk about their problems with teachers

D. become more dependent on cellphones as they grow older

45. Which of the following opinions does the author most probably hold?

A.It is necessary to forbid middle school students to use

cellphones.

B.There are more benefits than harm to kids behind cellphone screens.

C.Teenagers have become victims of cellphones.

D.There is a very scary world behind cellphone screens.

C

In Western countries people have been using the installment (分期付款) plan since the first half of the twentieth century. Today, a large number of families in Great Britain buy furniture, household goods and cars by installments. In the U.S., the figure is much higher than in Great Britain, and people there spend over 10 percent of their income on the installment plan.

The price of an article bought on installments is always higher than the price that would be paid by cash. There is a charge for interest. The buyer pays one quarter or one third of the price as a down payment when the goods are delivered to him. He then makes regular payments, weekly or monthly, until the full price is paid up. The legal ownership of the goods remains with the seller until the final payment has been made.

Installment buying has advantages and disadvantages. It can help couples with small incomes to furnish their homes and start housekeeping. It increases the demand for goods, and in this way helps business and employment. There is, however, the danger that when business is bad, installment buying may end suddenly, making business much worse. This may result in a great increase in unemployment. If the people on the installment plan lose their jobs, they will probably not be able to make their payments. If great numbers of people are not able to pay their installment debts there is a possibility that businessmen cannot collect their debts and will therefore lose money. If businessmen lose money or fail to make a satisfactory profit, it becomes more likely to have a depression. This is why, in some countries, the government controls the installment plan by fixing the amount of the down payment and installments to discourage people from buying more than they can pay for on the installment plan.

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