2016届高三英语模拟试卷2 - 图文

2016届高三英语模拟试卷2

I. Listening Comprehension: 30％ Section A

Directions: In Section A. you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard. 1. A. Angry. B. Tired. C. Hungry. D. Disappointed.

2. A. She did a survey a week ago. B. She completed her survey quickly. C. She will help him on Thursday. D. She thinks she can reduce the cost. 3. A. In a grocery. B. In a warehouse. C. In a shopping mall. D. In a fashion designer’s studio. 4. A. He doesn’t have any idea about what he wants to do. B. He’d like to work this summer.

C. He wonders whether the woman has a job. D. He can’t decide where to go on vacation.

5. A. She must renew it before getting plane tickets. B. She doesn’t need a new one after all. C. She has run into unexpected difficulties. D. She hasn’t had trouble renewing it so far. 6. A. They had a misunderstanding four years ago. B. They really like each other very much.

C. They’ve been angry with one another for a long time. D. They’ve never learned how to express their feelings. 7. A. They watched the end of the race.

B. Only three of them didn’t finish the race. C. Most of them didn’t run.

D. They participated in the last three races. 8. A. She doesn’t care how the movie ended. B. She generally dislikes horror movies. C. She would rather see a horror film. D. She wasn’t really frightened.

9. A. Linda would probably prefer a cassette.

B. She was thinking of giving Linda the records. C. There is no need to buy Linda the records. D. Linda doesn’t buy records anymore.

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10. A. At last he enjoys his college life.

B. College life has changed little since last year. C. He has many new friends this year.

D. It’s easier to find his way around this year.

Section B

Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. The passages will be read twice but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers in your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.

Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage. 11. A. Women earn more money than men.

B. A majority of college students are women. C. Women are top earners.

D. A majority of college teachers are women. 12. A. Women students. B. Married women. C. Women workers. D. Married couples. 13. A. The change of American women’s income. B. The proportion of women students in college. C. The change of American married women. D. The status of American women.

Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage. 14. A. Handling climate change. B. Saving electricity. C. Wildlife protection. D. Nature conservation. 15. A. In New York. B. In Paris. C. In Tokyo. D. In Sydney. 16. A. More than four thousand. B. More than two thousand. C. More than eighty-eight. D. More than two hundred. Section C

Directions: In Section C, you will hear two longer conversations. The conversations will be read twice. After you hear each conversation, you are asked to fulfill the task by filling in the numbered blanks with the information you have heard.

Blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation. A House for Sale Location of the house: In a __17__ town. Reason for selling the house: The house owner feels __18__ and wants to live with his__19__. Price of the house: $ __20__ ______________________________________________________________ 2 跃龙学堂 您身边的中小学生辅导专家

Complete the form: Write One Word for each answer.

Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation. On the Internet How does the man think of downloading MP3s? He thinks it’s a __21__. What does the man enjoy doing? He enjoys __22__. What does the man seldom do? He seldom posts to __23__. What does the woman often do at weekends? She likes to __24__ to the network. Complete the form: write no more than 3 words for each answer

II. Grammar and Vocabulary Section A: 16

Directions: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

A

Teaching involves more than leadership. Some of the teacher’s time and effort __25___(direct) toward instruction, some toward evaluation. But __26__is the teacher as a group leader who creates an efficient organizational structure and good working environment so that instruction and evaluation activities can take place. A group that is disorganized or fighting frequently among members will not be a good learning group. The leadership pattern includes __27__(help) to form and maintain a positive learning environment so that all activities can take place smoothly.

On the first day of class, perhaps a few closely united groups and friendships already exist. But there is no sense of group unity. If teachers are successful leaders, they will help students develop a system of relationships __28__ encourages cooperation.

Standards and rules must be established to maintain order, ensure justice, and protect individual rights, __29__do not go against school policy.

__30__ skilful the teacher is in uniting students and establishing a good atmosphere, the task is never complete. Regular maintenance is necessary. Conflicts arise. The needs of each member change. A new kind of learning task __31__(require) a new organizational structure. Sometimes outside pressures such as holidays, upcoming tests or athletic contests, or family troubles cause stress in the classroom. One task for the teacher is __32__(restore) a positive environment by helping students to cope with conflict, change, and stress.

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More people than ever are drinking coffee these days---but __33__ smaller quantities than they used to. Some manufacturers of coffee makers are trying to take advantage of this trend by developing small machines that brew __34__(small) amounts of coffee.

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Two U.S. appliance companies----Black & Decker, __35__(base) in Towson, Maryland, and Toastmaster Inc. of Columbia, Missouri----have recently introduced “drip” coffee makers that brew one or two cup servings of coffee. Both of the products brew the coffee directly into a cup, __36__(eliminate) the need for a separate carafe. Since many people make a pot of coffee in the morning but drink only a single cup, the new coffee makers__37__reduce the wasted coffee. Black & Decker’s Cup-at-a-Time costs $ 27, __38__ Toastmaster’s Coffee Break Retails for $20.

Black & Decker also makes __39__ coffee maker that drips coffee directly into a carry-around thermal carafe. The carafe, a glass vacuum bottle,__40__(suppose) to keep the coffee fresh for hours. The product, called the Thermal Carafe Coffee-maker, comes with a built-in lid that opens during the brewing process and close when it is completed. There are several models, including one that fits under the counter, ranging from $ 60 to $ 110 in price.

Section B: 10

Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A. worn B. happenings C. hungry D. reported E. take F. exhibits G. dependency H. social I. various J. unreasonable K. obvious Of all systems of symbols, language is the most highly developed. It has been pointed out that human beings, by agreement, can make anything stand for anything human beings have agreed, in the course of centuries of mutual __41__, to let the various noises that they can produce with their lungs, throats, tongues, teeth, and lips systematically stand for certain __42__ in their nervous systems. We call that system of agreements language.

There is no necessary connection between the symbol and that which it stands for. Just as __43__ positions can be symbolized by feathers __44__on the head, by gold on the watch chain, or by a thousand other things according to the culture we live in, so the fact of being __45__ can be symbolized by a thousand different noises according to the culture we live in.

However __46__ these facts may appear at first glance, they are actually not so obvious as they seem except when we __47__ special pains to think about the subject. Symbols and the things they stand for are independent of each other, yet we all have a way of feeling as if, and sometimes acting as if, there were necessary connections. For example, there are people who feel that foreign languages are __48__ by nature; foreigners have such funny names for things, and why can’t they call things by their right names? This feeling__49__ itself most strongly in those English and American tourists who seem to believe that they can make the natives of any country understand English if they shout loud enough. Like the little boy who is __50__ to have said: “Pigs are called pigs because they are such dirty animals,” they feel that the symbol is ______________________________________________________________ 4 跃龙学堂 您身边的中小学生辅导专家

inherently connected in some way with the things symbolized.

III. Reading Comprehension

Section A: 15

Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.

In today’s world of cell phones, mini laptops and MP3 players, most people have at least one time-telling tool with them. Since these devices are so common, is time running out for the 500-year watch? According to some consumers, yes. New Jersey teenager Charlie Wollman says a watch is “an extra piece of equipment with __51__ function.” Many young adults __52__, and use their cell phones to tell time. Louis Galie, a senior vice president at Timex said that fewer young people wear watches today than five years ago. __53__, some people claim that the __54__ industry is at a crossroads.

However, watchmakers __55__ say that watches regain popularity when the consumers reach their 20s and 30s. By then, they are __56__ to spend money on a quality timepiece that doesn’t just keep good time. Fifty years ago, watchmakers boasted about their products’ __57__. But in recent years the watch industry has __58__ itself into an accessory business. And for many today, the image a watch communicates has become more important than the time it tells.

“Complication”---- features that go beyond simple timekeeping----are an important part of a watch’s __59__. Today’s watches offer various features that suit almost any personality. These features __60__ altitude trackers, compasses, lunar calendars, USB drives, and even devices that measure the effectiveness of golf swings!

__61__ is also a key element in today’s watches. For example, Japanese watchmaker Tokyoflash makes watches that don’t even look like watches. The company’s popular Shinshoku model uses different color lights to __62__ the time. It looks more like a futuristic bracelet than a watch. Another Japanese watchmaker, EleeNo, makes a(n) “__63__” watch. Using a ring of circles to keep time, this watch makes an excellent conversation piece.

Whether a watch communicates fashion sense, creative talents or a love of sports, consumers want their timepieces to __64__. Nowadays, everyone has the same kind of device in their bags, so people want to make a statement with what’s on their __65__. Will this interest in watch fashion last? Only time will tell. 51. A. unnecessary B. various C. unique D. special 52. A. plan B. agree C. expect D. doubt 53. A. Even so B. In addition C. By contract D. As a result 54. A. phones B. compass C. watch D. calendars 55. A. optimistically B. hesitantly C. automatically D. proudly 56. A. considerate B. reluctant C. generous D. willing ______________________________________________________________

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been forcibly parted is heroic. As J. Chadwick has pointed out, the character of Jim was a first in American fiction—a recognition that the slave had two personalities, “the voice of survival within a white slave culture and the voice of the individual: Jim, the father and the man.”

There is much more. Twain’s mystery novel Pudd’nhead Wilson stood as a challenge to the racial beliefs of even many of the liberals of his day. Written at a time when the accepted wisdom held Negroes to be inferior (低等的) to whites, especially in intelligence, Twain’s tale centered in part around two babies switched at birth. A slave gave birth to her master’s baby and, for fear that the child should be sold South, switched him for the master’s baby by his wife. The slave’s light-skinned child was taken to be white and grew up with both the attitudes and the education of the slave-holding class. The master’s wife’s baby was taken for black and grew up with the attitudes and intonations of the slave.

The point was difficult to miss: nurture (养育), not nature, was the key to social status. The features of the black man that provided the stuff of prejudice—manner of speech, for example—were, to Twain, indicative of nothing other than the conditioning that slavery forced on its victims.

Twain’s racial tone was not perfect. One is left uneasy, for example, by the lengthy passage in his autobiography (自传) about how much he loved what were called “nigger shows” in his youth—mostly with white men performing in black-face—and his delight in getting his mother to laugh at them. Yet there is no reason to think Twain saw the shows as representing reality. His frequent attacks on slavery and prejudice suggest his keen awareness that they did not.

Was Twain a racist? Asking the questioning the 21st century is as wise as asking the same of Lincoln. If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the “wisdom” of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error. Lincoln, who believed the black man the inferior of the white, fought and won a war to free him. And Twain, raised in a slave state, briefly a soldier, and inventor of Jim, may have done more to anger the nation over racial injustice and awaken its collective conscience than any other novelist in the past century. 74. How do Twain’s novels on slavery differ from Stowe’s? A. Twain was more willing to deal with racism. B. Twain’s attack on racism was much less open. C. Twain’s themes seemed to agree with plots. D. Twain was openly concerned with racism.

75. Recent criticism of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn arose partly from its_____. A. target readers at the bottom B. anti slavery attitude C. rather impolite language D. frequent use of “nigger”

76. What best proves Twain’s anti slavery stand according to the author? A. Jim’s search for his family was described in detail. B. The slave’s voice was first heard in American novels.

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C. Jim grew up into a man and a father in the white culture. D. Twain suspected that the slaves were less intelligent. 77. What does the author mainly argue for?

A. Twain had done more than his contemporary writers to attack racism. B. Twain was an admirable figure comparable to Abraham Lincoln. C. Twain’s works had been banned on unreasonable grounds. D. Twain’ s works should be read from a historical point of view. Section C: 8

Directions: Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete statements in No More Than Ten words.

In the time it takes to read this article, an area of Brazil’s rain forest larger than 200 football fields will have been destroyed. The market forces of globalization are invading the Amazon. In the past three decades, hundreds of people have died in land wars; countless others endure fear and uncertainty, their lives threatened by those who profit from the theft of log and land. In this Wild West of guns, chain saws, and bulldozers(推土机), government agents are often corrupt(贪污) and ineffective ----or ill-equipped and outnumbered. Now, industrial-scale soybean producers are joining loggers in the land grab, speeding up destruction and further smashing the great Brazilian wilderness.

During the past 40 years, close to 20 percent of the Amazon rain forest has been cut down----more than in all the previous 450 years since European colonization began. The percentage could well be far higher; the figure fails to account for selective logging, which causes significant damage but is less easily observable than clear-cuts. Scientists fear that an additional 20 percent of the trees will be lost over the next two decades. If that happens, the forest’s ecology will begin to fail. Originally, the Amazon can produce half its own rainfall through the vapor it releases into the atmosphere. Eliminate enough of that rain through clearing, and the remaining trees dry out and die. When the dry environment is worsened by global warming, severe droughts raise the chances of wildfires that could damage the forest. Such a drought affected the Amazon in 2005, reducing river levels as much as 40 feet and stranding hundreds of communities. Meanwhile, because trees are being casually burned to create open land in the states of Para, Mato Grosso, Acre, and Rondonia, Brazil has become one of the world’s largest producers of greenhouse gases. The danger signs are undeniable.

78.In the time it takes to read this article, a large area of Brazil’s rain forest will have been destroyed, which implies that _______________.

79. Besides loggers who are to blame for speeding up the destruction of the rain forest, another threatening force will be _______________.

80. Why does the author say that the percentage (of the rain forest’s destruction) could well be far higher?

81. How can the Amazon rain forest originally maintain its ecology?

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TEN WORDS.)

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I. Translation: 22

Directions: Translate the following sentences into English. You are required to use the word given in the bracket for each respective sentence.(4+4+4+5+5) 82. 那些住在邻近地区的人都能免费使用这个阅览室。（access n.） 83. 问题是你能否在大多数人反对的情况下坚持自己的观点。( against)

84. 授业解惑是教师的职责所在，但鼓励学生独立思考更为重要。( importance) 85. 英国的旅游业要从恐怖袭击的负面影响中完全恢复要有一段时间。（before） 86. 就是在星期三警方宣布，经过整整一个月的努力，他们在那个银行抢劫案上取得了重大突破。(It )

II. Guided writing 25

Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words. The composition must be based on the information given below. 食物可以使人精神愉悦，可以给人们带来回忆和联想。请以My Happy Food 为题写一篇短文，内容包括以下两个方面： 1． 简述你的“快乐食品”；

2． 联系自身经历，说明它成为你“快乐食品”的原因。

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Keys:

1-10: BBCBD CCBCB 11-16: BDAADB 17. small 18. lonely 19. children 20. 112,000

21. piece of cake 22. visiting various websites 23. discussion group 24. log on

25．is directed 26.it 27.helping 28.that/which 29. but 30.However 31.requires 32.to restore

33.in 34. smaller 35. Based 36. eliminating 37.should 38.while 39.a 40.is supposed

41-50: GBHAC KEJFD

51-65: ABDCA DDBCA BDCBA 66-69: CAAB 70-73: ABCA 74-77: BDCA

78. the rain forest is disappearing very fast 79. industrial-scale soybean producers

80. Because the damage of selective logging is hard to estimate. 81. By producing half its rainfall through the vapor it releases. Translation:

82. Those who live nearby / in the nearby neighborhood have free access to the reading room. 83. The problem is whether you can stick to your own point of view while most people are against it. 84. It is teachers' duties to give lessons and remove doubts, but it is of more importance to encourage students to think independently.

85. It will be some time before the British tourism fully recovers from the negative effect of the terrorist attack. 86. It was on Wednesday that the police declared that after working hard for a whole month, they had made a great breakthrough in the bank robbery. My Happy Food

Nowadays, in spite of the increasingly serious concern about food safety, many people are still keen on eating out. Personally speaking, I’m not a restaurant-lover. The only food that appeals to me is what Mum cooks.

It is known to all that high school is a critical as well as painstaking period in one’s life. After a long day at school, I am usually exhausted and in no mood for anything. However, a big meal that Mum takes much time to prepare will surely light me up. The smell and taste relax me. The exchange of ideas at the dinner table with my parents is another great source of happiness to me. Moreover, the food is clean, safe and thus will never put my health at risk.

In a word, sitting at the dinner table with my parents and having the delicious home-made food is the happiest thing for me.

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