四川成都外国语学校2017届新高三开学考试英语试题及答案(2)

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Hank had to learn to use his new legs. Again and again he marched the length of the room , and marched back again. There were times when he fell down on the floor, but he pulled himself up and went back to the endless marching. He went out on the street. He climbed stairs and learned to dance. He built a boat and learned to sail it.
When World War II came , he talked the Red Cross into giving him a job. He took the regular training. he marched and drilled along with the other soldiers. Few knew that he was legless. This was the true story of Hank Viscardi, a man without legs.
21. Children laughed at Hank and called him ‘Ape Man’ because ______.
   A. he didn’t talk to them                       B. he kept away from them
   C. his arms touched the ground when he moved     D. he couldn’t use his arms
22. It can be inferred from the story that five feet eight inches tall is ______.
   A. an average height for a fully grown person       B. too tall for an average person
   C. too short for an average person                D. none of the above
23. The sentence “he talked the Red Cross into giving him a job” implies that the Red Cross _____.
   A. was only glad to give him a job
   B. gave him a job because he was a good soldier
   C. gave him a job after he talked to someone whom he knew in the organization
   D. was not willing to give him a job at first
24. When Hank marched and drilled along with the other soldiers, he ______.
   A. did everything the other soldiers did         B. did most of the things the other soldiers did
   C. did some of the things the other soldiers did   D. took some special training
B
You are watching a film in which two men are having a fight. They hit one another hard. At the start they only fight with their fists. But soon they begin hitting one another over the heads with chairs. And so it goes on until one of the men crashes (撞击) through a window and falls thirty feet to the ground below. He is dead!Of course he isn't really dead. With any luck he isn't even hurt. Why? Because the men who fall out of high windows or jump from fast moving trains, who crash cars of even catch fire, are professionals. They do this for a living. These men are called stuntmen. That is to say, they perform tricks.There are two sides to their work. They actually do most of the things you see on the screen. For example, they fall from a high building. However, they do not fall on to hard ground but on to empty cardboard boxes covered with a mattress (床垫). Again, when they hit one another with chairs, the chairs are made of soft wood and when they crash through windows, the glass is made of sugar!But although their work depends on trick of this sort, it also requires a high degree of skill and training. Often a stuntman' s success depends on careful timing. For example, when he is "blown up" in a battle scene, he has to jump out of the way of the explosion just at the right moment.
Naturally stuntmen are well paid for their work, but they lead dangerous lives. They often get seriously injured, and sometimes killed. A Norwegian stuntman, for example, skied over the edge of a cliff (悬崖) a thousand feet high. His parachute (降落伞) failed to open, and he was killed. In spite of all the risks, this is no longer a profession for men only. Men no longer dress up as women when actresses have to perform some dangerous action. For nowadays there are stuntgirls too.
25. Stuntmen earn their living by ______.
A. playing their dirty tricks                B. selling their special skills
C.jumping out of high windows            D. jumping from fast moving trains
26. When a stuntman falls from a high building, ______.
A.he needs little protection                 B. he will be covered with a mattress
C.his life is endangered                    D. his safety is generally all right
27. Which of the following is the main factor (因素) of a successful performance?
A. Strength.      B. Exactness.      C. Speed.       D. Carefulness.
28. What can be inferred from the author' s example of the Norwegian stuntman?
A.Sometimes an accident can occur to a stuntman.
B.The percentage of serious accidents is high.
C.Parachutes must be of good quality.
D. The cliff is too high.
C
In some ways, the United States has made some progress. Fires no longer destroy 18,000 buildings as they did in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, or kill half a town of 2,400 people, as they did the same night in Peshtigo, Wisconsin. Other than the Beverly Hill Supper Club fire in Kentucky in 1977, it has been four decades since more than 100 Americans died in a fire.
But even with such successes, the United States still has one of the worst fire death rates in the world. Safety experts say the problem is neither money nor technology, but the indifference(无所谓) of a country that just will not take fires seriously enough.
American fire departments are some of the world's fastest and best-equipped. They have to be. The United States has twice Japan's population, and 40 times as many fires. It spends far less on preventing fires than on fighting them. And American fire -safety lessons are aimed almost entirely at children, who die in large numbers in fires but who, against popular beliefs, start very few of them.

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