高三英语第一学期摸底试题本试卷共三部分，满分135分（120×1.125）。

考试时间120分钟。

注意事项：1．答卷前，考生务必分别将答题卷上的姓名、考试号用黑色字迹的签字笔填写，用2B铅笔将考试号对应的信息点涂黑。

2．选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目选项的答案信息点涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案，答案不能答在试卷上。

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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

AIf you like tasting food from different countries, here are some events you shouldn’t miss in New York City this year.Chinatown Restaurant Week---March 14-30Various meals will be offered for $18.88 per person at participating Chinatown restaurants such as Golden Unicorn, Nom Wah Tea Parlor, HK Wonton Garden, Pho Grand, Red Egg and Shanghai Gourmet. Peking Duck House will offer a special at lunch only.More Info: Martini Week---March 15-30Martini Week is a two-week-long celebration of America’s proudest invention. It will be held at 23 bars and restaurants acros s the town. They’ll be offering their own unique specialities at low prices. Choose from places including Ava Lounge, Beaumarchais, Catch, Abe & Arthur’s. Sons of Essex, Bounce Sporting Club, Aspen Social, Revel, Rayuela, and more.More Info: Malaysian Restaurant Week---June 18-24Malaysian restaurants will offer various $20.12 meals, while Asian-influenced restaurants will feature a special limited-time-only menu inspired by the country’s special flavors. Participating restaurants include Fatty Crab, Michelin-starred Laut, Penang and Spice Market.More Info: Italian Restaurant Week ---June 26-July 6Celebrate New York City’s fifth Italian Restaurant Week---the Italian Dine Out. The 11-day event will of fer special discounted lunch and dinner prices of $23 at New York City’s most authentic Italian restaurants. Sponsored(赞助) by the Italian Trade Commission, the Italian Dine Out offers diners special 3-course menus for lunch and dinner.More Info: Belgian Restaurant Week---July 21-28This is your chance to enjoy tasty multi-course meals and some of the world’s finest beers. TheBelgian restaurants in NY bring you amazing cuisines and great beers during a week-long celebration of Belgian food.More Info: I’m sure you’ll have a great time during the events. Remember: don’t eat too much for the sake of you health.21. To enjoy an $18.88 supper during Chinatown Restaurant Week, you probably should avoid going to_______.A. HK Wonton GardenB. Nom Wah Tea ParlorC. Golden UnicornD. Peking Duck House22. If you love eating at Michelin-starred Laut, you’d most probably expect _________.A. Martini WeekB. Italian Restaurant WeekC. Malaysian Restaurant WeekD. Chinatown Restaurant Week23. Which of the following is a feature of the Belgian Restaurant Week?A. Bringing you free Chinese food.B. Providing authentic Italian food.C. Having a special limited-time-only menu.D. Offering some of the world’s finest beers.B. Twelve years ago, Danny called me from a dark, damp subway station. “A baby!” he shouted. “Get down here, and flag down a police car or something.” By nature, Danny is a remarkably calm person, so when I felt his heart pounding through the phone line, I ran.When I got to the subway station, Danny was holding a light-brown-skinned baby, about a day old. The baby had been wrapped in an oversize black sweatshirt and left on the ground in a corner behind the gate.What neither of us knew, or could have predicted, was that Danny had not just saved an abandoned infant; he had found our son.Three months later, Danny appeared in family court to give an account of finding the baby. Suddenly, the judge asked, “Would you be interested in adopting this baby?” The question surprised everyone in the courtroom, except Danny, who answered, simply, “Yes.”“But I know it’s not that easy,” he said.“Well, it can be,” assured the judge before barking out orders to allow me to be a parent-to-be.My first reaction, when I heard, went something like, “Are you crazy? How could you say yes without consulting me?”In three years as a couple, we had never discussed adopting a child. I was an ambitious playwright working as a part-time word processor. Danny was a respected yet wildly underpaid social worker. We had a roommate, who slept in our living room, to help pay the rent.We knew how many challenges couples usually faced when they wanted to adopt. And while Danny had patience and selflessness, I didn’t know how to change a diaper (尿布), let alone nurse a child. I didn’t trust the system and was sure there would be obstacles. Also, I couldn’t handle parenthood. So I promised myself I wouldn’t get attached.The caretaker held him and then placed him in my arms. But when the baby stared up at me, with all the innocence and hope he represented, I, like Danny, was completely hooked.24. Why did the author rush to the subway station?A. Because Danny finally found their lost son.B. Because she sensed Danny met something urgent.C. Because Danny had a heart attack.D. Because someone gave birth to a baby there.25. How did the author react on hearing Danny’s answer to the judge’s questio n?A. Surprised by the question.B. Crazy to be a parent-to-be.C. Annoyed at Danny’s decision.D. Angry at challenging her authority.26. It can be inferred from the last paragraph that ________.A. the author will adopt the babyB. the couple were tempted to take the babyC. the baby will bring hope to the familyD. the couple love each other very much27. What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage?A. To introduce a story of a poor family.B. To inform people of the difficulty of adopting a baby.C. To call on people to donate money to them.D. To show human’s kindness and love by nature.COne evening in February 2015, a student named Paula Ceely brought her car to a stop on a remote road in Wales. She got out to open a metal gate that blocked her path. That’s when she heard the whistle sounded by the driver of a train. Her Renault Clio was parked across a railway line. Seconds later, she watched the train drag her car almost a kilometre down the railway tracks.Ceely’s near miss made the news because she blamed it on the GPS (导航仪). She had never driven the route before. It was dark and raining heavily. Ceely was relying on her GPS, but it made no mention of the crossing. “I put my complete trust in the device and it led me right into the path of a speeding train,” she told the BBC.Who is to blame here? Rick Stevenson, who tells Ceely’s story in his book When Machines Fail Us, points the finger at the limitations of technology. We put our faith in digital devices, he says, but our digital helpers are too often not up to the job. They are filled with small problems. And it’s not just GPS devices: Stevenson takes us on a tour of digital disasters involving everything from mobile phones to wireless keyboards.The problem with his argument in the book is that it’s not clear why he only focuses on digital technology, while there may be a number of other possible causes. A map-maker might have left the crossing off a paper map. Maybe we should blame Ceely for not paying attention. Perhaps the railway authorities are at fault for poor signaling system. Or maybe someone has studied the relative dangers and worked out that there really is something specific wrong with the GPS equipment. But St evenson doesn’t say. It’s a problem that runs through the book.The game between humans and their smart devices is amusing and complex. It is shaped by economics and psychology and the cultures we live in. Somewhere in the mix of those forces there may be a way for a wiser use of technology.If there is such a way, it should involve more than just an awareness of the shortcomings of our machines. After all, we have lived with them for thousands of years. They have probably been fooling usfor just as long.28.What did Paula Ceely think was the cause of her accident？A. She was not familiar with the road.B. It was dark and raining heavily then.C. The railway workers failed to give the signal.D. Her GPS device didn’t tell her about the crossing.29. The phrase“near miss” (Paragraph 2) can best be replaced by______.A. close hitB. heavy lossC. narrow escapeD. big mistake30. Which of the following would Rick Stevenson most probably agree with?A. Modern technology is what we can’t live without.B. Digital technology often falls short of our expectation.C. Digital devices are more reliable than they used to be.D. GPS error is not the only cause for Ceely’s accident.31. What is the real concern of the writer of this article?A. The major causes of traffic accidents and car thefts.B. The relationship between human and technology.C. The shortcomings of digital devices we use.D. The human unawareness of technical problems.DCycling or even walking in city areas can be a little dangerous, thanks to the fact that one is sharing the road with vehicles that are increasingly getting larger and heavier. A recent study proves that of the 1.27 million people that die in road traffic crashes every year, about half are walkers, motorcyclists and cyclists. Now there may be a solution that could provide at least some help to protect this helpless group-an airbag!If you are worried that this safety measure will involve you taking around a heavy package or worse still, wrapping yourself inside an ugly plastic bag, the bag is fitted not on the human, but on the outside of the vehicle. And, while there are several versions of the idea in the works, the one most recently unveiled by Dutch car company TNO, seems to be the most advanced and ready to go into production.In the works since 2011, the airbag covers only the lower part of the windshield. This will provide the much needed buffer between the person’s head and the pane of glass he/she would otherwise meet.The chain of events leading to an airbag cause are quite simple-A camera fitted beneath the rear-view mirror monitors the vehicle’s closeness to a walker or cyclist. Any contact with either one of them sets off the sensors in the car’s bumper and quickly blows up the airbag. In addition to that the sensors also set off the car’s automatic brake, reducing the chances of an even worse injury.In tests conducted using a model, the success of not getting injured after being hit by a car travelling at about 40km/h was about 50-50! While not perfect, it will still result in reducing the number of deaths by a huge amount. With TNO ready to license its technology to car makers and many more companies trying to develop similar concepts. We would not be surprised if outer airbags become a standard feature in every car pretty soon!32. Why does the airbag cover the lower part of the windshield?A. To protect the windshield from being destroyed.B. To make the vehicle look beautiful.C. To reduce the weight of walkers.D. To prevent people’s head crashing on the glass.33. The fourth paragraph is mainly about .A. how the airbag worksB. where the airbag is fixedC. why the airbag is safeD. what the airbag is made up of34. The writer thinks the airbag of TNO .A. perfectB. practicalC. expensiveD. useless35. What is the main idea of the passage?A. Airbags are a new standard feature in cars.B. Airbags are much safer for drivers now.C. Airbags are practical for walkers and cyclists.D. Airbags are a solution to higher car accident rates.第二节(共5小题;每小题2分，满分10分)根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。