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1、一轮单元训练金卷高三英语卷（A）英语8 Units 1-2注意事项：1答题前，先将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在试题卷和答题卡上，并将准考证号条形码粘贴在答题卡上的指定位置。2选择题的作答：每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑，写在试题卷、草稿纸和答题卡上的非答题区域均无效。3非选择题的作答：用签字笔直接答在答题卡上对应的答题区域内。写在试题卷、草稿纸和答题卡上的非答题区域均无效。4考试结束后，请将本试题卷和答题卡一并上交。第卷第一部分:听力(共两节,满分30分)略第二部分: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
2、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。ADo you know of anyone who uses the truth to deceive (欺骗) ? When someone tells you something that is true, but leaves out important information that should be included, he can give you a false picture.For example , some might say, I just won a hundred dollars on the
3、lottery (彩票) . It was great. Itook that dollar ticket back to the store and turned it in for one hundred dollars! This guys a winner, right?Maybe, maybe not. We then discover that he bought$200 worth oftickets, and only one was a winner. Hes really a big loser!He didnt say anything that was false, b
4、ut he left out important information on purpose. Thats called a half-truth. Half-truths are not technically lies, but they are just as dishonest.Some politicians often use this trick. Lets say that during Governor Smiths last term, her state lostone million jobs and gained three million jobs. Then s
5、he seeks another term. One of her opponents says, During Governor Smiths term, the state lost one million jobs! Thats true. However, anhonest statement wouldhave been , During Governor Smiths term , the state had a net gain of two million jobs. Advertisers will sometimes use half-truths. Its against
6、 the law to make false statements so they try to mislead you with the truth. An advertisement might say, Nine out of ten doctors advised their patients to take Yucky Pills to cure toothache. It fails to mention that they only asked ten doctors and nine of them work for the Yucky Company.This kind of
7、 deception happens too often. Its a sad fact of life: Lies are lies, and sometimes the truthcan lie as well.21. How much did the lottery winner lose?A. One hundred dollars. B. Two hundred dollars.C. Three hundred dollars. D. Four hundred dollars.22. We may infer that the author believes people shoul
8、d_.A. buy lottery tickets B. make use of half-truthsC. not take anything at face value D. not trust the Yucky Company23. What do the underlined words net gain in Paragraph 5 mean?A. Final increase. B. Big advantage.C. Large share. D. Total saving.24. What can we know from the example of the Yucky Pi
9、ll advertisement?A. False statements are easy to see through.B. Half-truths are often used to mislead people.C. Doctors like to act in advertisement.D. Advertisements are based on facts.B When youre lying on the white sands of the Mexican Riviera, the stresses of the worldseem a million miles away.
10、Hey, stop! This is no vacation-you have to finish something!Here lies the problem for the travel writer and critic Edie Jarolim I always loved traveling and always liked to eat, but it never occurred to me that I could make money doing bothof those things, Jarolim said. Now you can read her travel a
11、dvice everywhere-in Arts and Antiques, in Brides, or in one of her there books, The Complete Idiots Travel Guide to Mexican Beach Resorts.Her job in travel writing began some eight years ago. After getting a PhD in English in Canada, she took a Test Frommers travel guides, passed it, and got the job
12、. After working at Frommers, Jarolim worked for a whileat Rough Guides in London, then Fodors, where she fell so in love with a description of the Southwest ofthe U.S. that she moved there.Now as a travel writer, she spends one-third of her year on the road. The rest of the time is spentcompleting h
13、er tasks and writing reviews of restaurants at home in Tucson, Arizona.As adventurous as the job sounds, the hard part is fact-checking all the information. Sure, its great towrite about a tourist attraction, but youd better get the local museum hours correct or you couldreally ruin someones vacatio
14、n.25. Which country does Jarolim live in now?A. Mexico. B. The U.S.C. The U.K. D. Canada.26. What is most difficult for Jarolim?A. Working in different places to collect information.B. Checking all the facts to be written in the guides.C. Finishing her work as soon as possible.D. Passing a test to w
15、rite travel guides.27. What do we know about Jarolim from the text?A. She is successful in her job.B. She finds her life full of stresses.C. She spends half of her time traveling.D. She is especially interested in museums.28. What would be the best title for the text?A. Adventures in Travel WritingB. Working as a Food CriticC. Travel Guides on the MarketD. Vacationing for a LivingCI didnt hear them call my name, explained Shelley Hennig toActive Teens (AT)as she talked about that exciting moment on national television when she won the honor of Miss Teen USA 20
