2016年云南省玉溪市一中高三下学期第八次月考英语试卷.docVIP

玉溪一中2016届高三年级下学期第八次月考试卷 英语学科试 本试卷分为第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分。 考试时间：100分钟，满分120分。 第Ⅰ卷（选择题，共70分）  注意事项： 答题前，考生务必用黑色碳素笔将自己的姓名、班级、座位号在答题卡上填写清楚，每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。答在试题卷上的答案无效。 第一部分：阅读理解（共20小题；第一节15小题，第二节5小题，每小题2分；满分40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。 A Most young people enjoy some form of physical activity. It may be walking, cycling or swimming, or, skating or skiing in winter. It may be a game of some kind—football, hockey, golf, or tennis. It may be mountaineering(登山). Those who have a passion for climbing high and difficult mountains are often looked upon with astonishment. Why are men and women willing to suffer cold and hardship, and to take risks on high mountains? This astonishment is caused probably by the difference between mountaineering and other forms of activity to which men give their leisure(闲暇). Mountaineering is a sport and not a game. There are no man- made rules, as there are for such games as golf and football. There are, of course, rules of a different kind which it would be dangerous to ignore, but it is this freedom from man- made rules that makes mountaineering attractive to many people. Those who climb mountains are free to use their own methods. If we compare mountaineering and other more familiar sports, we might think that one big difference is that mountaineering is not a “team game”. We should be mistaken in this. There are, it is true, no “matches” between “teams” of climbers, but when climbers are on a rock face linked by a rope on which their lives may depend, there is obviously teamwork. The mountain climber knows that he may have to fight forces that are stronger and more powerful than man. He has to fight the forces of nature. His sport requires high mental and physical qualities. A mountain climber continues to improve in skill year after year. A skier is probably past his best by the age of thirty, and most international tennis champions are in their earl