2017年高三学年上学期期中英语试题第I卷第一部分（共两节，满分40分）第一节阅读理解 (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。
并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑AJonathan Cranwell sat on a hard bench behind the long narro w desk and watched the flies fly lazily in the sun. The drone of the younger boys reading letters and the older boys reciting L atin verbs made him sleepy. Jonathan had to force his eyes to stay open. He wanted to learn something new!He looked up at the schoolmaster’s high desk in the front of th e room. The new teacher was from . Jonathan’s father had b een impressed with him. The boys had already had several ot her teachers, but none of them seemed to inspire Jonathan. S o far, there was nothing to show that this one was special , th ough he’d only been there two days.“It’s too hot to sit and memorize lessons,” the schoolmaster sa id. “We’ll move outdoors for the next part of our lesson.” He led the group of boys into the schoolyard. “You younger boys, d ig for grubs and beetles ( 幼虫和甲虫). Count their feet. See if you can describe their shells”Jonathan watched the teacher surrounded by laughing young students. No one had ever used the schoolyard itself for a cla ssroom. “What next ?” he thought. He didn’t have time to think about the younger boys, for he was running after butterflies a nd dragonflies himself.Jonathan and his friends liked this new way of learning.“It will be a clear night tonight. Go outside and look at the sky,” said the schoolmaster. “Look at the stars and notice their bri ghtness and the patterns they make. These patterns have na mes from Greek mythology(神话), names like Orion, Aries, and others. Tomorrow we will lea rn about the ancient stories on them.”“How is the new schoolmaster ?” asked Jonathan’s father that evening, when Jonathan announced he was going out to look at the sky.“He’s different from any other schoolmaster we’ve had,” Jonat han admitted. “He seems interested in everything around him, and he wants us to be curious too. He even used the schooly ard as a classroom!”“So Mr. John Adams and his new ways make school useful toyou after all,” joked Jonathan’s father.“I believe he has,” said Jonathan. “I know I won’t forget the les sons he has taught us!”1. What does the underlined word “drone” in Paragraph 1 me an ?A. Clear speaking voicesB. Continuous low dull so undsC. Enthusiastic responsesD. High spirits2. Which statement shows that the new schoolmaster underst ood the children ?A. “Go outside and look at the sky,…”B. “ See if you can describe their shells.”C. “It’s too hot to sit and memorize lessons,…”D. “Tomorrow we will learn about the ancient stories…”3. From the last but one paragraph, we can learn that _______ ___.A. Mr. Cranwell had met the new schoolmasterB. Jonathan had previously complained about schoolC. Mr. Cranwell was not satisfied with the new waysD. Jonathan had shown his father his homework4.What is the main idea of this story?A. Science is all around us.B. School provides us with the best education.C. Homework is an important part of education.D. There is more than one way to learn.BFor the business traveler who is all about efficiency: Check ou t these hotels that will get you in and out with a minimum of tr ouble. When you are pressed for time on a business trip, noth ing can infuriate you more than a slow hotel check-in process. On your next trip, try these hotels that offer a spee dier check-in process.1. Yotel New YorkThe self-service kiosks at this high-tech hotel work just like the ones you’d see at an airport. The re are just five-steps to register and obtain your card key. There is even a ro botic luggage bellboy. You tap in the number of bags you are carrying and sizes, then wait for a robot arm to swing down an d store your luggage in a locker (say, for a day trip). This also speeds up the check-in process if the first thing you need to do, like me, is head toa series of meetings.2.Another option for business travelers in a hurry: Marriott is roll ing out its mobile check-in app to 325 hotels this year, including the hotel. (I’ve teste d the app itself but not for a real visit quite yet.) Here is the ba sic idea: you download the iphone or Android app. The night b efore, you can “check-in” virtually. When you arrive, you get an alert that the room is ready and your key, which is already tied to your reservation, is waiting for you at the desk.3. Hyatt RegencyI happened to stay at this hotel recently and liked how fast the kiosk check-in works. Like the Yotel, the kiosk asks you to insert your cred it card, similar to an airport terminal. The whole process took about three minutes, when I left, I was equally impressed with the fast check-out. An agent meets you in the lobby with an ipad and asks fo r an email to use for a receipt. The big advantage: you never have to wait in line.4. Radisson: LaCrosseThe Radisson is trying to make the kiosk process even faster, at a few select hotels like the Radisson Lacrosse in , you use a mobile app to register and then receive a barcode by emailor text. When you get to the kiosk, you scan the barcode to ge t your key without any other steps required. It’s super fast. Yo u can find this new check-in system at the Radisson hotels in Salt Lake City, Seattle, an d as well.5．Which two hotels offer a mobile app for customers to chec k in?A. Yotel New York and .B. and Radisson: LaCrosse.C. . and Hyatt Regency .D. Hyatt Regency and Radisson: LaCrosse.6．Which hotel will send you a receipt by email?A. Yotel New York.B. .C. Radisson: LaCrosse.D. Hyatt Regency .7．Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?A. At Yotel New York, a robot will help you with all the check-in process.B. With its check-in app, you may enter your room in Marriott without a key. C. The barcode you receive from Radisson contributes to the fast check-in.D. Hyatt Regency is close to an airport terminal.CYou may think, salt is just a simple cooking element we shake on our food for a little extra taste. But salt is much more than that. Without salt our muscles would not move. Our nervous s ystems would not operate. Our hearts would not beat.But do not think rubbing salt into a wound will help. Doing that would be painful and not heal the wound. “To rub salt into a wound” is an idiom that means to purposefully make a bad sit uation worse.Early humans got the salt they needed to stay alive from the a nimals they killed. But advances in agriculture led to a diet low in salt. So, humans needed to find other sources. Those who lived near the ocean or other natural sources for salt were luc ky. Those who did not had to trade for salt. In fact, people use d salt as a method of payment in many parts of the ancient w orld. The word “salary” comes from the word “salt”.Salt also played an important part in population movement an d world exploration. Explorers understood that if they could ke ep food fresh, they could travel longer distances. So they use d salt to preserve food and explore the world.Salt was so important that, according to food historians, it was traded pound-for-pound for gold. Today, people still use the expressions “worth one's salt” or “worth one's weight in salt”. The expressions de scribe a person of value.A person might also be called “salt of the earth”. That descript ion means he or she is dependable and trustworthy. However, when you say “I think we should take what he said with a grai n of salt”you mean you accept it but maintain a degree of dou bt about its truth.8. What can we learn from the first paragraph?A. Salt plays an important part in our life.B. Salt mak es food tasty.C. Salt is considered to be part of our muscles.D. Salt is sure to damage nervous systems.9. A beggar’s bread was stolen last night, which means______ ___.A. salt of the earthB. rubbing salt in a woundC. a diet low in saltD. worth his salt10. If you describe a person as a great help, you mean______ ___ .A. he rubs salt in a woundB. he is often taken as a grain of saltC. he often uses salt to preserve meatD. he is worth his weight in salt11. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?A. Salt Is More Than a Four-letter Word.B. Salt Is a Basic Element in Cooking.C. Salt Is a Word with a Long History.D. Salt Is Popular with Different People.DA new study has discovered that meditation（冥想）and oxygen sport together reduce depression. The study fou nd that this mind and body combination, done twice a week fo r only two months, reduced the symptoms for a group of stude nts by 40 percent.“We are excited by the findings because we saw such a me aningful improvement in both clinically depressed and non-depressed students,” said lead author Dr. Brandon Alderman.“It is the first time that both of these two behavioral ways hav e been looked at together for dealing with depression.”Researchers believe the two activities have an interactive e ffect on combating depression. Alderman and Dr. Tracey Shor s discovered that a combination of mental and physical training (MAP) enabled students with major depressive disorder not to let problems or negative thoughts defeat them.Rutgers researchers say those who participated in the stud y began with 30 minutes of focused attention meditation follo wed by 30 minutes of oxygen sport. They were told that if thei r thoughts drifted to the past or the future they should refocus on their breathing, enabling those with depression to accept moment-to-moment changes in attention.Shors, who studies the production of new brain cells in the hippocampus—part of the brain involved in memory and learning—says scientists have shown in animal models that oxygen spo rt exercise keeps a large number of certain cells alive.The idea for the human intervention（干预）came from her laboratory studies, she says, with the main go al of helping individuals acquire new skills so that they can lea rn to recover from stressful life events.By learning to focus their attention and exercise, people wh o are fighting depression can acquire new learning skills that can help them process information and reduce the overwhelm ing recollection of memories from the past, Shors says.“We know these treatments can be practiced over a lifetime and that they will be effective in improving mental health.” said Alderman. “The good news is that this intervention can be p racticed by anyone at any time and at no cost.”12. What made the research so different?A. Adopting a way of meaningful talk.B. Combining the two behavioral ways to treat depression.C. Treating depression with special medicine.D. Comparing the depressed with the non-depressed.13. The underlined word “combating” in Paragraph 3 can be r eplaced by ______.A. fightingB. identifyingC. distingui shingD. examining14. What did the participants do in the research?A. They did oxygen sport half an hour before thinking.B. They thought quietly and then took exercise.C. They took exercise longer than they thought.D. They too k exercise while thinking quietly.15. What is Shors’ main purpose of her studies?A. To find out certain brain cells of humans.B. To study the production of new brain cells.C. To offer people a new method to treat stress.D. To decid e the links between stress and exercise.第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，共1 0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。
