高三英语晚自习英语限时小训.docx

高三英语晚自习英语限时小训一、阅读理解AMore than 25 years ago, Saroo Brierley lived in rural （农村）India. One day, he played with his brother along the rail line and fell asleep. When he woke up and found himself alone, the 4-year-old decided his brother might be on the train he saw in front of him-so he got on.That train took him a thousand miles across the country to a totally strange city. He lived on the streets, and then in an orphanage （孤儿院）.There, he was adopted by an Australian family and flown to Tasmania.As he writes in his new book, A Long Way Home, Brierley couldn't help but wonder about his hometown back in India. He remembered landmarks, but since he didn't know his town's name, finding a small neighborhood in a vast country proved to be impossible.Then he found a digital mapping program. He spent years searching for his hometown in the program's satellite pictures. In 2011, he came across something familiar. He studied it and realized he was looking at a town's central business district from a bird's-eye view. He thought, “On the right-hand side you should see the three- platform train station”-and there it was. nAnd on the left-hand side you should see a big fountainH-and there it was. Everything just started to match.When he stood in front of the house where he grew up as a child, he saw a lady standing in the entrance. "There's something about me, " he thought-and it took him a few seconds but he finally remembered what she used to look like.In an interview Brierley says, "My mother looked so much shorter than I remembered. But she came forth and walked forward, and I walked forward, and my feelings and tears and the chemical in my brain, you know, it was like a nuclear fusion （核聚变）. I just didn't know what to say, because I never thought seeing my mother would ever come true. And here I am, standing in front of her.” 1. Why was Brierley separated from his family about 25 years ago?A. He got on a train by mistake.B. He got lost while playing in the street.C. He was taken away by a foreigner.D. He was adopted by an Australian family.2. How did Brierley find his hometown?A. By analyzing old pictures.B. By travelling all around India.C. By studying digital maps.D. By spreading his story via his book.3. What does Brierley mainly talk about in the interview? A. His love for his mother.B. His reunion with his mother.C. His long way back home. D. His memory of his hometown.BAn Australian professor is developing a robot to monitor the health of grazing cattle, a development that could bring big changes to a profession that's relied largely on a low-tech approach for decades but is facing a labor shortage.Salah Sukkarieh, a professor at the University of Sydney, sees robots as necessary given how cattlemen are aging. He is building a four-wheeled robot that will run on solar and electric power. It will use cameras and sensors to monitor the animals. A computer system will analyze the video to determine whether a cow is sick. Radio tags （标签）on the animals will measure temperature changes. The quality of grassland will be tracked by monitoring the shape, color and texture （质 土也）of grass. That way, cattlemen will know whether they need to move their cattle to another field for nutrition purposes.Machines have largely taken over planting, watering and harvesting crops such as com and wheat, but the monitoring of cattle has gone through fewer changes.For Texas cattleman Pete Bonds, it's increasingly difficult to find workers interested in watching cattle. But Bonds doesn't believe a robot is right for the job. Years of experience in the industry - and failed attempts to use technology - have convinced him that the best way to check cattle is with a man on a horse. Bonds, who bought his first cattle almost 50 years ago, still has each of his cowboys inspect 300 or 400 cattle daily and look for signs that an animal is getting sick.Other cattlemen see more promise in robots. Michael Kelsey Paris, vice president of the Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association, said a robot could be extremely useful given rising concerns about cattle theft. Cattle tend to be kept in remote places and their value has risen, making them appealing targets.4. What is a problem with the cattle-raising industry?A.Soil pollution.B.Lack of workers.CAging machines.D.Low profitability.5. What will Sukkarieh's robot be able to do?A.Monitor the quality ofgrass.B.Cure the diseased cattle.C.Move cattle to anotherfield.D.Predict weather changes.6. Why does Pete Bonds still hire cowboys to watch cattle?A.He wants to help them earn a living.B.He thinks men can do the job better.C.He is inexperienced in using robots.D.He enjoys the traditional way of life.7. How may robots help with cattle watching according to Michael Kelsey?A.Increase the value of cattle.B.Bring down the cost of labor.C.Make the job more appealing.D.Keep cattle from being stolen.cLife continually requires that we write down a few words of thanks: for holidays, meals, presents or people's place in our hearts. However, too often, our messages end up flat or somewhat unconvincing. To make our messages more effective, we might take a lesson from the history of art.To some extent, what distinguishes great from common art is the level of detail with which the world has been studied. A talented artist is, first and foremost, someone who takes us into the specifics of the reasons why an experience or a place felt valuable. They don't merely tell us that spring is 'nice', they zero in on the particular contributing factors to this niceness: leaves that have the softness of a newborn's hands, the contrast between a warm sun and a sharp breeze, the soft cry of baby blackbirds.Some of the reason why great artists are rare is that our minds are not well set up to understand why we feel as we do. But we can be confident if our minds have been affected, the reasons why they've been so will be somewhere, waiting to be uncovered. We stand to realise that it wasn't so much that the food was 'delicious9; but that the potatoes in particular had a charming rosemary and garlic flavour. A friend wasn't just nice' they brought in a hugely sensitive and generous tone to bear in asking us what it had been like for us when we suffered. The details will be there, waiting for us to catch them.We don't have to be great artists to send effective thank-you notes. We just need to locate and hold on tightly to two or three highly detailed reasons for our gratitude. 8. What can we infer from paragraph 1?A. We seldom express gratitude by writing.8. We usually find messages of thanks touching.9. We should take a course for message writing.10. We may draw inspiration for thank-yous from arts.9. What does the underlined phrase "zero in on“ in paragraph 2 probably mean?A. Leave out. B. Clear up.C. Focus on.D. Hold back.10. How is paragraph 3 developed?A. By classification. B. By example.C. By definition.D. By process.11. Which would the author recommend to express gratitude?A. I am blessed to have such a wonderful week.B. Your caring and warm smile lights up my day.C. Thank you so much for your great present. D. This is the most delicious dinner I've ever had.二、七选五阅读Mistake is an act or judgement that is misguided or wrong. As long as we exist, we make mistakes consciously or unconsciously. Some mistakes are made because of the lack of knowledge or experience. 12 We name it as a habit or laziness.Mistakes do not mean Failure.It is not always a mistake if you fail at something. Sometimes failure happens when we do things for the first time to get out of our comfort zone. This is how we learn. It is important to make such experiments to move forward in life. When we try something new and fail, we face a lot of criticism. 13 But never be discouraged from these mistakes in life. Never quit. The important is to learn from the mistakes so that you can do it better next time.Do you learn from mistakes?14 This is the reason we keep repeating them. Each mistake offers a lesson if we are ready to grab it. Check yourself. List the things that you want to do differently but repeat them every day. It could be something related to your relationship. It hurts when you fight with your loved ones. You know that you have your own share of mistake. Then you decide to take care next time. However, it happens again next day. What did you learn from yesterday? You cannot always blame the other one. What have you learned? Do not give me excuse of habit. 15 See mistakes as a part of life. See them as an event from which you can always learn something. 16 How beautiful our life will be if we stop regretting the past mistakes and lay them down to serve as a path for a better future!A. We can not change what has happenedThey just exist to make us strong with time.B. It creates fear inside us and stops us taking next steps.C. It is easy to make mistakes but hard to learn from them.E.However, there are some mistakes we repeat every day knowingly.F.You can always break a habit by a little practice every day if you really want to. G.It is important to realize that we do not just learn by making mistakes but correcting those mistakes.三、完形填空The Last Robot-Proof Job in America?You can get most food, such as warm cookies or vodka, to your doorstep in minutes. But try getting a red snapper （红蜩鱼）.Until recently, if you could obtain it, it would likely have been pre-frozen and shipped in from overseas.A new tech startup is aiming to 17 this situation. Based inside the Fulton Fish Market, a seafood wholesale market, the startup, called FultonFishM, allows customers across the whole country, both restaurants and individuals, to buy from the market. The fish is shipped 18 rather than frozen, thanks to an Amazon advanced logistics system. Mike Spindler, the company's C. E0, said recently, "I can get a fish to Warren Buffett, that's as fresh as if he'd walked down to the pier （码头）and bought it that morning.There is one thing, 19 that the sophisticated logistics system cannot do: pick out a fish. If Warren Buffett orders a red snapper, the company needs to 20 that his fish is actually red snapper, and not some other. According to the ocean-conservation organization, more than 20% of the seafood in restaurants and grocery stores inAmerica is 21 For this task, the company has employed Robert DiGregorio, a forty-seven-year veteran of the business, who possesses a blend of judgement and 22 knowledge that, so far, computers have yet to replicate.“ 23 the food-safety stuff, our business could be any market from the last three thousand years of human history,“ Spindler told me. He is experienced in the 24 business. When he arrived at the fish market in 2014, people were cautious. "They thought selling fish on the Internet was 25 DiGregorio said, speaking for the fishmongers（鱼贩）. "They didn't see how it could possibly work." Five years ago, DeGregorio didn't know how to use a computer, but when the Web-site people arrived at the market, he sensed an opportunity. Together, they've created a human-machine fish-buying operation.By 1 a.m. each night, the company collects 26 from around the country and sends them to DiGregorio. He heads into the market, carrying his tablet computer. The company's algorithms （算法）27 data on their sources and can tell DiGregorio,for example, which stall to go to get the best tuna （金枪鱼）.The computer is a "learning system,”, so if DiGregorio makes a choice it didn't 28 it asks, “Was the fish not available? Was it damaged? All that information is fed back in for next time.Then, what can a fishmonger see that a computer can't? DeGregorio showed me his part of the 29 process, "I'm assessing a few things,“ he said. First, 30 Fish should have “nice” slime（粘液）.Then, smell. He sniffed the air above the box. "when fish goes bad, it smells like ammonia.Besides, to get the best stuff, "Fishmongers have to have a relationship with you. To trust you. He added.Is he ever 31 being replaced by the learning system of computers? DiGregorio shrugged. "By the time they invent a computer that can do what I can do J he said JT11 be dead.”四、读后续写17. A.maintainB remedyC.substituteD.recognize18. A.freeB , overseasC.separateD.fresh19. A.thereforeB. otherwiseC.howeverD.thus20. A.ensureB. proposeC.concedeD.remind21. A.overpricedB. misidentifiedC.displacedD.modified22. A.computerB. cuisineC.fishD.marketing23. A.Rather thanB. Thanks toC.Except forD.Prior to24. A.fund-raisingB. online-groceryC.fish-sellingD.non-profit25. A.significantB worthyC.responsibleD.ridiculous26. A.salesB ordersC.alternativesD.statistics27. A.analyzeB. supplyC.prioritizeD.feed28. A.requireB. processC.predictD.value29. A.calculationB. decodingC.correctionD.selection30. A.smashB. touchC.wipeD.roll31. A.concerned about B. eager forC.delighted withD.capable of32.阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短 文。续写的词数应为150左右。Last year at Christmas time, my wife, three children and I were on our way from Paris to Nice. Somehow everything went wrong. Our hotels were "tourist traps“ and our rented car broke down. On Christmas Eve, when we checked into a dirty hotel in Nice, there was no Christmas spirit in our hearts.It was raining and cold when we went out to eat. We found a small restaurant poorly decorated for the holiday. Only five tables in the restaurant were taken. There were two German couples, two French families, and an American sailor, by himself. They were eating in stony silence except the sailor. He was writing a letter, and a halfsmile lighted his face. In the corner a piano player was listlessly （无精打采地）playing Christmas music.All of us were interrupted by an old French flower woman through the front door. She had a worn overcoat and her old shoes were wet. Carrying her basket of flowers, she went from one table to another. No one bought any. Exhausted and frustrated, she sat down at a table.The sailor finished his meal and got up to leave. Putting on his coat, he walked over to the flower woman's table.“Merry Christmas,“ he said, smiling and picking out a handful of flowers. uHow much are they?” "Two francs, sir.”The sailor put a twenty franc note in the woman's hand.“I don't have change, sir," she said. "I'll get some from the waiter.“No, ma'am," said the sailor, leaning over and kissing the ancient cheek. "This is my Christmas present for you.注意：1 .所续写短文的词数应为150左右；2,续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；Paragraph 1 ：Then the sailor headed for our table with the flowers in his hand.Paragraph 2：The piano player came alive and pleasant music filled the whole room.参考答案1. A；2. C； 3. B4. B； 5. A； 6. B； 7. D8. D； 9.