2017学年第一学期南洋模中学高三年级期中试卷
. Grammar and  Vocabulary
Section A （10%）
  Over the last few hours, hundreds of delegates from all over the world have been arriving for the J12 meeting of leading industrialized nations ,which this year is taking place in the quiet Canadian mountain resort of Kanalgirie.
  The Canadian President (21)____________(deliver)the operating address (22)__________the conference opens tomorrow morning. The Canadian  police, who have been preparing for the event (23)____________late last year,are taking huge safety measures to avoid the violence which (24)_________(mark) last year’s summit in Berlin. They have thrown 18km security line around the area,and last night they were not allowing (25)____________to pass through—including journalists who actually have full access to the delegates. From tomorrow, police will also be blocking all mobile phone signals---to prevent bombs (26)_____________(set)off by remote control ,a police spokesmen said last night.
  “The politicians here seem to be isolating (27)_________from the free press,”said one journalist .”There’s no doubt that governments are becoming more and more security conscious and less and less concerned(28)____________personal freedom. It’s getting harder and harder for us to gain access to the people who,(29)________the next few days, will be making decisions which will affect all our lives…and that’s something (30)___________should concern us all.
Section B (10%)
A. alternative  B. attractive  C. determined  D. emergency E. encounters  F. faithfully
G. figures      H. fortunately  I. grieve        J. originally  K.rescue
sort out the facts  Ridley Scott's new movie The Martian （外星人）isn’t as loyal to Andy Weir’s bestselling novel as it is to the science that supports the book.It’s hard to find any other science-fiction film that has stuck so___31_______to the practical challenges of living and surviving in space since Ron Howard’s Apollo 13.
  The film manages to create a cinematic experience, and a(an)____32________plot based on the idea that man can survive on Mars as long as he’s done the math.
  It sounds dry, but Ridley Scott pulls it off with magnificence.
  During a month-long mission on Mars ,the five-man crew of Ares 3___33_____a storm they didn’t plan for ,and the team is called home. The craft’s commander in chief Mellisa Lewis orders a(n)___34______withdrawal. In the process, Mark  Watney , one of the five crew members gets injured by a flying communication antenna（天线）.Lost in the storm his fellow crewmen leave him behind for dead.
  NASA chief Teddy Sanders announces Mark Watney’s death to the media. His fellow crewmen and guilt-ridden commander ____35______for his loss; the only problem is that Watney is very much alive. But the question is :for how long?
  Based on the food and water the crew left behind ,Watney __36______he has supplies for 31 days. Due to the storm, he has no way to make contact with NASA ground control.
  But the movie, which is a celebration of human____37________,makes this just another challenge for Watney,a clever and skillful scientist specializing in botany.The _38_______loner  simply decides to survive and works out a plan to grow food and water on a bare, dusty planet where nothing grows.
Meanwhile he is working on establishing ___39__________methods of communication with Earth. When he finally reaches NASA, and a(n)___40_____plan is worked out. But he has to survive a whole year before help arrives.
On the red planet, things can go wrong at any moment and they do.
. Reading Comprehension
Should we dismiss an entire good idea just because some people abuse it ? You know how this one goes: a story is published someone with 17 children who’s living on welfare, and “getting ”38000 a year, and the piece goes on to discuss the total welfare bill, before ____41___that ,because the system is being “abused”,___42___ should be abolished.（废除）
The thing is ,if we talked about abolishing everything that was abused ,then where would we stop? We would have abolished the Houses of Parliament during the political scandals. Likewise schools, given the amount of abuse that has happened there, both state and _____43____.We’d be talking about abolishing marriage, because women are abused ,in____44_______. Likewise parenthood, given the numbers of parents who abuse their_____45______.
The simple truth is, people will abuse any_____46____. There’s a proportion of humanity that will always play the system, whatever it is. That’s what humans do. We’re just monkeys,_____47_____ a stick to poke in a hole to get ants. Or monkeys who will_____48____ someone else’s stick, and ants.
The question is: is the fundamental concept that is being ____49____good? Right? Moral?

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