广东执信中学2013高三上学期期中英语试题答案(3)

They become hooked on computers and gradually their social and school life is affected by this situation. They spend all free time surfing and don’t concentrate on homework, so this addiction influences their grades and success at schools. Because they can find everything on the websites, they hang out there. Moreover, this addiction to websites influences their social life.
They spend more time in front of computers than with their friends. The relation with their friends changes. The virtual life becomes more important than their real life. They have a new language that they speak in the chat rooms and it causes cultural changes in society.
Because of the change in their behavior, they begin to isolate themselves from the society and live with their virtual friends. They share their emotions and feelings with friends who they have never met in their life. Although they feel confident on the computer, they are not confident with real live friends they have known all their life. It is a problem for the future. This addictive behavior is beginning to affect the whole world.
36. The main idea of the passage is about _______.
A. the cause of weboholism
    B. the advantage of weboholism
C. the popularity of weboholism
D. the influence of weboholism
37. The underlined work “obsessive” in the second paragraph most probably means “______”.
A. attractive B. addictive C. professional D. potential
38. We can infer from the passage that ________.
A. weboholism has the greatest effect on teenagers.
B. students can hardly balance real and virtual life.
C. people are addicted to games on the Internet.
D. virtual life is more vivid and attractive anyway.
39. Which of the following is NOT true of weboholism? 
A. It contributes to the development of the web.
B. The chat room language may change social culture.
C. The problem will be getting more and more serious later.
D. People addicted to the web often become inactive in real life.
40. The author’s attitude towards weboholism is that of being ________.
A. optimistic B. positive C. oppositive D. acceptable

C
Philip was a nine-year-old boy in a Sunday school class of 8-year-old girls and boys. Sometimes the third graders didn’t welcome Philip into their group and usually tricked him. This was not because he was older, but because he was “different”. You see, Philip suffered from a condition called Downs’s Syndrome. This made him “different”, with his facial characteristics, slow responses and mental problems.
   One Sunday after Easter, the Sunday school teacher gathered some plastic eggs that pulled apart in the middle. The teacher gave one to each child. On that beautiful spring day, the children were to go out and discover for themselves some symbol of “new life” and place it inside the plastic eggs.
   After the children returned to the classroom, the teacher opened their eggs one by one, asking each child to explain that symbol of “new life”. The first opened egg contained a flower. Everyone cheered. In another was a butterfly…. When the teacher opened the last egg, it was empty. “That’s stupid,” said someone. The teacher felt a pull at his shirt. It was Philip. Looking up, Philip said, “It’s mine. I did it. It’s empty. I have new life, because the tomb is empty.” Not a sound was heard in class at all. From that day on, Philip became a real part of the group. They welcomed him, and whatever made him different was never mentioned again.
   Philip’s family knew he wouldn’t live a long life, for there were too many things wrong with him.
41. The underlined word “condition” in the first paragraph probably means ________.
   A. grade    B. status     C. health     D. disease
42. It can be inferred from the first paragraph that ________.
  A. The 8-year-olds were sometimes cruel 
  B. The 8-year-olds were friendly to Philip
  C. Philip was really different in school
  D. Philip was older and more sensitive
43. The teacher gave each child one plastic egg to let them ________.
   A. play around on that beautiful spring day
B. put some symbol of “new life” into it
   C. try to pull it apart in the middle     
   D. go out and discover themselves
44. After Philip explained his new life, ________.
   A. the class thought he was clever     B. the class fell silent
   C. he began to study in the class       D. he felt dying
45. We learn from the passage that ________.
   A. the teacher used to have classes outdoors  
  B. the Philip’s new life wish was empty         
  C. Philip was healthy as a whole
  D. Philip was accepted by his classmates in the end
D
　　Is there enough oil beneath the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (保护区) (ANWR) to help secure America’s energy future? President Bush certainly thinks so. He has argued that tapping ANWR’s oil would help ease California’s electricity crisis and provide a major boost to the country’s energy independence. But no one knows for sure how much crude oil lies buried beneath the frozen earth，with the last government survey, conducted in1998，projecting output anywhere from 3 billion to 16 billion barrels.
　　The oil industry goes with the high end of the range, which could equal as much as 10% of U.S. consumption for as long as six years. By pumping more than 1 million barrels a day from the reserve for the next two to three decades, lobbyists claim, the nation could cut back on imports equivalent to all shipments to the U.S. from Saudi Arabia. Sounds good. An oil boom would also mean a multibillion-dollar windfall in tax revenues, royalties (开采权使用费) and leasing fees for Alaska and the Federal Government. Best of all, advocates of drilling say, damage to the environment would be insignificant. “We’ve never had a documented case of an oil rig chasing deer out onto the pack ice,” says Alaska State Representative Scott Ogan.