衡水中学2017届高三摸底联考英语试题

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One of the greatest gifts one generation can give to other generations is the wisdom it has gained from experience. This idea has inspired the award-winning photographer Andrew Zuckerman. He interviewed and took photos of fifty over-sixty-five-year-olds all over the world. His project explores various aspects of their lives. The photos and interviews are now available on our website.

Click on the introductions to read the complete interviews.

Let us now have a culture of peace.

一Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Spain

Federico Mayor Zaragoza obtained a doctorate in pharmacy （药学）from the Complutense Uni- versity of Madrid in 1958. After many years spent in politics, he became Director-General of UNESCO in 1987. In 1999，he created the Foundation for a Culture of Peace, of which he is now the president. In addition to many scientific publications, he has published four collections of poems and several books of essays.

Writing is a discovery.

一Nadine Gordimer，South Africa

Due to a weak heart, Nadine Gordimer attended school and university briefly. She read widely and began writing at an early age. She published her first short story at the age of fifteen, and has completed a large number of works,which have been translated into forty languages.In 1991Gordimer won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Jazz is about the only form of art today.

—Dave Brubeck, USA

Dave Brubeck studied music at the University of the Pacific and graduated in 1942. After World War Two he was encouraged to play jazz. In 1951,he recorded his first album （专辑）.Brubeck’s 1959 album has become a jazz standard.He received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996.

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29.Why did Andrew Zuckerman choose the fifty elders for his project?

        A. Because their accomplishments inspired him.

        B. Because they are physically impressive.

        C. Because their wisdom deserves to be passed on.

        D. Because they have similar experiences.

30.According to the web page,Federico Mayor Zaragoza .

        A. has won many awards for his work in politics

        B. has served as the president of a university

        C. has devoted all his life to the field of science

        D. has made achievements in different areas

31.Who most probably said “My education has been the library and books”in the interview when re-flecting on his/her experience?

        A. Andrew Zuckerman.                             
B. Federico Mayor Zaragoza.

        C. Nadine Gordimer.                                 
D. Dave Brubeck.

32.What is the main purpose of this web page?

        A. To publicize Zuckerman’s project.

        B. To show Zuckerman’s awards.

        C. To spread the wisdom of the three people.

        D. To celebrate the achievements of the three people.

D

As early as the mid-18th century, some people began raising doubts about Marco Polo’s travels. In 1995,historian Frances Wood argued in her book Did Marco Polo Go to China ? that the famous explorer from Venice never made it to pass the Black Sea. She noted that his travel journal left out the Great Wall of China,chopsticks and tea drinking among other details.Furthermore, Chinese documents from Polo’s day made no mention of the explorer and his men. Last year, a team of Italian researchers became the latest to challenge Polo’s accounts. They said that evidence didn’t support his deion of Kublai Khan’s Japanese invasions （侵略）.

Now, however, research by Hans Ulrich Vogel of Germany’s Tubingen University might help prove Marco Polo was true. In a new book Marco Polo Was in China，the professor of Chinese history tries to prove that Marco Polo spoke the truth. He suggests, for example, that Polo didn’t include the Great Wall in his book because it only achieved its great importance in the Ming Dynasty several hun-dred years later. Vogel further explains that Chinese records from the 13th and 14th centuries avoided setting down visits from Westerners.

Historians before him have touched on these issues. But Vogel also relies on another evidence:the explorer’s very detailed deions of currency and salt production in the Yuan Dynasty. Accord-ing to Vogel, Polo documented these aspects of Mongol Chinese culture in greater detail than any oth-er of his time. This is a hint that Polo relied on his own powers of observation.

Will we ever know whether Marco Polo traveled to China? Perhaps not, but the consequences of his real or fictional journey are still felt across the globe. One reader of The travels of Marco Polo was Christopher Columbus,who stepped upon the New World while following his idol’s footsteps.

33.France Wood doubted Marco Polo’s travel’s to China because his description .

        A. missed some important culture of China 
B. covered so much about traders’life

        C. was full of obvious mistakes                    
D. seemed less detailed

34.Vogel’s trust on Marco Polo is based on the argument that.

a.The Great Wall didn’t gain its importance then

b.Records in the Yuan Dynasty mentioned Polo

c.Polo mentioned the currency and salt

d.Polo’s other works are believable

e.Polo recorded what he saw in great detail

        A. a,b,d                   B. a,c,d                      C. a,e                         D. b，c

35.Which of the following shows the structure of the text?

        A.                            B.                               C.                               D.