西安市第一中学08届高三月考英语试卷

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e position of literate people B. a change in the nature of reading C. an increase in the number of books D. an increase in the average age of readers 46. Educationalists （教育学者） are still arguing about _________. A. the importance of silent reading B. the amount of information provided by books and newspapers C. the effects of reading on health D. the value of different types of reading material 47. What is the writer of this passage attempting to do? A. To explain how present day reading habits developed. B. To change people39。 s way to read. C. To show how reading methods have improved. D. To encourage the growth of reading. C The volcano is one of the most surprising frightening forces of nature. Maybe you have seen pictures of these ―fireworks‖ of nature. Sometimes when a volcano erupts , a very large wall of melted rock moves down the side of a mountain. It looks like a ―river of fire. Sometimes volcanoes explode, throwing the melted rock and ashes high into the air. But where does this melted rock e from? The earth is made up of many layers . The top layer that we see is called the crust. Under the crust are many layers of hard rock. But far, far beneath the crust whose rock is so hot that it is soft. In some places it even melts. The melted rock is called magma. Sometimes the magma breaks out to the surface through cracks (爆裂声 )in the crust. These cracks are volcanoes. Most people think of mountains when they think of volcanoes. But not every mountain is a volcano. A volcano is simply the opening in the earth from which the magma escapes. The hot magma, or lava as it is called, cools and builds up on the surface of the earth. Over thousands of years, this pile of cooled lava can grow to be very, very big. For example, the highest mountain in Africa, Kilimanjaro, is a volcano. It towers more than 16,000 feet above the ground around it. underlined word “erupts” means ________. A. moves down B. breaks away C. builds up D. suddenly throws out lava . words in the passage have the same meaning as “melted rock”? A. ―Volcano ‖and ―explode‖. B. ―Crust ‖and ―hard rock‖ C. ―magma‖ and ―lava‖ D. ―Volcano‖ and ―magma‖ is the correct order of the layers of the earth (beginning with the top layer)? A. crusthard rockmagmasoft rock B. crusthard rock soft rockmagma C. magmasoft rock hard rockcrust D. volcanocracksmagmacrust 51. The best title of the passage should be _______. A. The Volcano B. Kilimanjaro Volcano C. The Mountains D. The Melted Rock D “ It hurts me more than you‖, and ―This is for your own good‖—these are the statements my mother used to make years ago when I had to learn Latin, clean my room, stay home and do homework. That was before we entered the permissive period in education in which we decided it was all right not to push our children to achieve their best in school. The schools and the educators made it easy for us. They taught that it was all right to be parents who take a letalone policy. We stopped making our children do homework. We gave them calculators, turned on the television, left the teaching to the teachers and went on vacation. Now teachers, faced with children who have been developing at their own pace for the past 15 years, are realizing we‘ve made a terrible mistake. One such teacher is Sharon Klompus who says of her students—―so passive‖—and wonders what has happened. Nothing is demanded of them. She believes. Television, says Klompus, contributes to children‘ s passivity ( 被动性 ). ―We‘ re talking about a generation of kids who‘ ve never been hurt or hungry. They have learned somebody will always do it for them, instead of saying ‗go and look it up‘, you tell them the answer. It takes greater energy to say no to a kid.‖ Yes, it does. It takes energy and it takes work. . It‘ s time for parents to end their vacation and e back to work.. It‘ s time to take the car away, to turn the TV off, to tell them it hurts you more than them but it‘ s for their own good. It‘s time to start telling them no again. are being more inactive in study because______________ . A. they watch TV too often B. they have done too much homework C. they have to fulfill too many duties D. teachers are too strict with them learn from the passage that the author’s mother used to lay emphasis on_____________ . A. learning Latin B. discipline C. natural development D. education at school “permissive period in education” the author means a time_____________ . A. when children are allowed to do what they wish to B. when everything can be taught at school C. when every child can be educated D. when children are permitted to receive education 55. The main idea of the passage is that___________ . A. parents should leave their children alone B. kids should have more activities at school C. it‘s time to be more strict with our kids D. parents should always set a good example to their kids E Language learning begins with listening. Children are greatly different in the amount of listening they do before they start speaking, and later starters are often long children will ―obey‖ spoken instructions some time before they can speak, though the word ―obey。