2014年杨浦高级中学高三摸底考英语试卷.docx

2014年杨浦高级中学高三开学摸底考试卷When I was young, my marks in school were miserable. After supper, I would lie on bed and stare for hours 25the tube. The background noise of my life was gunfire from Wagon Train, and laughter from 1 Love Lucy or Mister Ed. Apparently, I couldnt care 26 (little) about my study.One day, my Mom snapped off the TV and asked me to read two books every week and take reading notes. I complained about 27unfair it was for I didnt have any books in the house 28 the Bible. But she explained that she would drive me where the books were. So pretty soon, there was .a boy sitting in awhite1959 Oldsmobile on his way to Detroit Public Library and 29. (wander) reluctantly among the childrens books. The first book I read through was Chip the Dam Builder, which was about beavers. For the first time in my life 1 was lost in another world. No television program had taken me solar away from my surroundings 30 did this verbal visit to a cold stream in a forest and these creatures building a home. It dawned upon me 31 reading was quite different from watching TV — there were images form in my mind instead of before my eyes and I could return to them again and again with the flip of a page. Soon I moved from animals to plants, and then to rocks. Along the way a funny thing happened: 1 got to the point 321 couldnt wait to get home to my books.Mow I am a botanist in Baltimore. Sometimes 1 still cant believe my lifes journey, from an indifferent student to this position. But I know the journey began when Mom turned off the TV and put me in her car for that drive to the library.(B)Once upon a time, a boy was walking through a large woods 33 he found a big blackboard hanging on an old tree trunk. It came complete with a box of chalk pieces, and bright sparks were flying from the tips of every piece of chalk. The boy took a piece of chalk and started to draw on the blackboard: first a tree, then a rabbit, and then a flower...Magically, whenever he finished a figur