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1、铁岭市2016-2017学年度协作体第二次联考试题高三英语试卷（时间100分钟满分120分）第一部分 听力（略）第二部分 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分, 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。 AEvery year more people recognize that it is wrong to kill wildlife for “sport.” Progress in this direction is slow because shooting is not a spo
2、rt for watching, and only those few who take part realize the cruelty and destruction. The number of gunners, however, grows rapidly. Children too young to develop proper judgments through independent thought are led a long way away by their gunning parents. They are subjected to advertisements of g
3、un producers who describe shooting as good for their health and guncarrying as a way of putting redder blood in the veins (血管). They are persuaded by gunner magazines with stories honoring the chase and the kill. In school they view motion pictures which are supposedly meant to teach them how to dea
4、l with arms safely but which are actually designed to stimulate (刺激) a desire to own a gun. Wildlife is disappearing because of shooting and because of the loss of wildland habitat (栖息地). Habitat loss will continue with our increasing population, but can we slow the loss of wildlife caused by shooti
5、ng? There doesnt seem to be any chance if the serious condition of our birds is not improved. Wildlife belongs to everyone and not to the gunners alone. Although most people do not shoot, they seem to forgive shooting for sport because they know little or nothing about it. The only answer, then, is
6、to bring the truth about sport shooting to the great majority of people. Now, it is time to realize that animals have the same right to life as we do and that there is nothing fair or right about a person with a gun shooting the harmless and beautiful creatures. The gunners like to describe what the
7、y do as character-building, but we know that to wound an animal and watch it go through the agony of dying can make nobody happy. If, as they would have you believe, gun-carrying and killing improve human-character, then perhaps we should encourage war.21. According to the text, most people do not s
8、eem to be against hunting because_.A. they have little knowledge of it B. it helps to build human characterC. it is too costly to stop killing wildlife D. they want to keep wildlife under control22. The underlined word “agony” in the last paragraph probably means_.A. form B. Condition C. pain D. sad
9、ness23. According to the text, the films children watch at school actually_.A. teach them how to deal with guns safely B. praise hunting as character-buildingC. describe hunting as an exercise D. encourage them to have guns of their own24. It can be inferred from the text that the author seems to_.A
10、. blame the majority of people B. worry about the existence of wildlifeC. be in favour of war D. be in support of character-building B Are you an early riser or a night owl? Researchers from Aachen University in Germany believe that about 10 percent of people can be classified as “morning people”, w
11、ho feel more active and function best in the morningAround 20 percent are night owlspeople who naturally tend to stay up late and are more tired during the dayAnd the rest of us fall somewhere in between, according to New Scientist.Previous studies have suggested that early risers are more likely to
12、 be happy and healthy while night owls experience worse sleep as well as more depression and anxiety during the day.For a long time, scientists have been trying to find out what causes the differences between the twoA new study suggests that it isnt just peoples habitsearly risers and night owls act
13、ually have different brain structures.Led by Jessica Rosenberg at Aachen University, researchers scanned the brains of 16 early risers, 23 night owls and 20 people with intermediate sleeping hoursThey found that the brains of night owls had less “white matter”which speeds up the transmission(传输) of
14、nerve signals in brain areas associated with depressionAs you know, after people fly in an airplane from one time zone to another, they often suffer from a confused and tired feeling called “jet lag” because their body clocks are out of sync(不同步的) with the new time zoneIt usually takes about a week
15、for their bodies to adjust to the new timeBut night owls always have difficulty syncing their bodies to the right time due to their brain structure“Its like they suffer from permanent jet lag,” said Rosenberg.The good news is that it is possible for night owls to turn themselves into morning peopleAccording to the researchers, night owls should try to spend as much time in the sunlight as possible and reduce their exposure to artificial light at night to fo
