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1、 完美WORD格式 河津二中2018-2019学年高三9月份月考英语试题考试时间：120分钟 满分150分第一部分 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中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。ADisasters almost always arrive unexpectedly. But there are apps to help people prepare for disasters. Some apps alarm users when a disaster has taken place. Other di
2、saster apps can be used when people need rescue or other help.SirenGPS MobileThe free SirenGPS Mobile app connects users to emergency services. The app will let emergency workers know where the person in need is. The app works over cell networks. But it also works on Wi-Fi if cell networks are down
3、after an emergency. Users can create a personal health report on the app to share with emergency services. This will provide information important to treatment decisions.GuardlyGuardly is an app that can help keep people safer in places such as businesses and universities. This app permits workers a
4、nd students to report about unsafe conditions. Reports can be made to an organizations own security division as well as to government emergency services. The reporters location can be sent with the report so security or emergency services help can arrive more quickly. The app is free, but Guardly ch
5、arges for its services.Life360The Life360 app provides a service to keep loved ones connected. Users can set up a network of people to share their location, chat, and get a warning when they are near someone in their network. The app helps users communicate when they are in a disaster. The location
6、share action can be forbidden when desired. The Life360 app is free, with some services available for a fee.Red Panic ButtonWhen a person is in a dangerous situation, the Red Panic Button app might help. This app can send a text message or email to chosen contacts providing the users location. You c
7、an also add a voice or video message or photo to your text and email. Red Panic Button is free, but extra functions are available for a fee.1. What does the SirenGPS Mobile app work on when cell networks are not available?A. Emergency services. B. Wi-Fi.C. A personal health report. D. Text messages
8、and emails.2. When using Guardly, people can get timely security services becauseA. the app is a perfect toolB. the app causes little troubleC. the report can show where the reporter isD. the report can tell how to save the reporter3. Which app can send video messages?A. Life 360. B. Guardly.C. Red
9、Panic Button. D. SirenGPS Mobile.4. Which of the following is TRUE about the four apps mentioned in the passage?A. All of them are available for a fee.B. All of their services are chained.C. All of their extra functions are used for free.D. All of them can tell the users location.BI believe in the p
10、ower of the unknown. I believe that a sense of the unknown pushes us forward in all of our creative activities, from science to art.When I was a child, after bedtime I would often go to the window and stare at the stars. I had so many questions. How far away were those tiny points of light? Did spac
11、e go on forever and ever, or was there some edge? And if so, what lay beyond the edge?Another of my childhood questions: Did time go on forever? I looked at pictures of my parents and tried to imagine their parents, and so on, back through the generations. Does time go on forever? Or is there some b
12、eginning of time?When I grew up, I became a professional astrophysicist. Although I never answered any of these questions, they continued to challenge me, to haunt me, to drive me in my scientific research, and to cause me to live on tuna fish and no sleep for days at a time while I was crazy about
13、a science problem. These same questions, and questions like them, challenge and haunt the leading scientists of today.Einstein once wrote that “the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the beginning of true art and true science.” What
14、 did Einstein mean by “the mysterious?” I dont think he meant that science is full of unpredictable or unknowable or supernatural forces. I think that he meant a sense of awe, a sense that there are things larger than us, that we do not have all the answers at this moment, and that we can stand righ
15、t at the boundary between known and unknown.Scientists are happy, of course, when they find answers to questions. But scientists are also happy when they become stuck, when they discover interesting questions that they cannot answer. That is when their imaginations and creativity are set on fire. Th
16、at is when the greatest progress occurs.5. As a child, the author wasA. cautious B. generousC. curious D. doubtful6. What does the underlined word “haunt” in Paragraph 4 refer to?A. Make someone to feel annoyed. B. Make someone to feel excited.C. Cause great trouble to someone. D. Keep coming to someones mind.7. What is
