广东省惠州市2017届高三上学期第三次调研考试英语试题 Word版含答案.doc

广东省惠州市2017届高三第三次调研考试 英 语 2017.01 本试卷分选择题和非选择题两部分。满分120分（最终成绩按总分135分进 行折算），考试用时120分钟。 注意事项： 1. 本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分。 2. 答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名，准考证号填写在答题卡相应的位置。 3. 全部答案应在答题卡上完成，答在本试卷上无效。 4. 考试结束后，将答题卡交回。 第I卷 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。 A Tips for waiting in line When lining up at the supermarket checkout counter, the lines next to us always seem to be moving faster than the one that we are standing in. Now the New York Times has put together the research of scientists to give you some insights into the math and psychology of queuing. It also offered tips on picking the fastest line no matter if you’re lining up in a supermarket, a bank or anywhere else. Picking someone with a full chart US mathematician Dan Meyer believes that a chart(购物车) full of items doesn’t tell the whole story. “Every person requires a fixed amount of time to say hello, pay, say goodbye and clear out of the lane,” he said. And that amount of time is an average of 41 seconds per person. On the other hand, the time that each item takes to be rung up is only three seconds. That means if there are five people ahead of you, each with ten items in their charts, the waiting time will be 355 seconds. But if there is only one person ahead of you ,with 50 items in the chart, the waiting time is 191 seconds. You do the math. Study the customer How many people are ahead of you is one thing, and who they are is another. For example, if they are old people – and this is not ageist(年龄歧视的) – they tend to move slower and delay the checkout process. The items in their chart are also important. For example, four bottles of the same milk will definitely go faster than four completely different items. Choose a “serpentine line” In some places, there may be just one line leading to several checkout counters. The person at the head of the line goes to th