高三英语第二次模拟突破冲刺试题八

“讲忠诚、严纪律、立政德”三者相互贯通、相互联系。忠诚是共产党人的底色，纪律是不能触碰的底线，政德是必须修炼的素养。永葆底色、不碰底线江西省南昌市十校2017届高三英语第二次模拟突破冲刺试题（八）本试卷分四部分。考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。注意事项:1. 答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名，准考证号填写在答题卡上。2. 选出每小题答案后，用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。不能答在本试卷上，否则无效。第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）做题时，先将答案标在试卷上，录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。例: How much is the shirt?A. 19.15B. 9.18 C. 9.15答案是C。1. What do we learn about the woman from this conversation?A. She plans to send out all the invitations.B. Shes a new student.C. She thinks the man is right.2. What does the man mean?A. He didnt know which hospital Bill was in.B. He took Bill to the hospital.C. He forgot to call the woman.3. What does the woman mean?A. She hasnt heard from the professor in a week.B. The class has extra time to complete the assignment.C. She only just found out about the economics paper.4. What does the woman mean?A .The doctor has stopped seeing new patients.B. The doctors clinic will be closed tomorrow.C. The doctors schedule is filled tomorrow.5. What does the woman want to know?A. Where the meeting is being held.B. Where Joe will meet her.C. What the topic of the meeting is.第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。听第6段材料，回答第6至8题。6. What does the man want to do?A. To have his shoes mended.B. To buy a pair of new shoes.C. To do shopping in a supermarket.7. How far is the supermarket?A. Two blocks away.B. Five blocks away.C. Six blocks away.8. How will the man go to the place?A. By bus.B. On foot.C. In his car.听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。9. Whats the relationship between the two speakers?A. Secretary and boss.B. Teacher and student.C. Doctor and patient.10. Why was she late?A. Her aunt called her to get up late.B. She missed the bus.C. She got a telephone call.11. What can we know about the teacher?A. He is strict with his students.B. He is cold to his students.C. He gets angry easily.听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。12. Where does the conversation take place?A. In a company.B. In a factory.C. In a hospital.13. Why cant the woman sleep well?A. Because she has been working too hard.B. Because she has a family problem.C. Because she has a high fever.14. What does the doctor suggest that the woman should do?A. She should take some medicine.B. She should take holidays.C. She should change a job.听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。15. What are they talking about?A. A story about a friend who was on a sweet potato diet.B. How to keep diet.C. People should eat all kinds of things.16. Why was the friend ill?A. Because he wanted to lose weight.B. Because sweet potatoes cant provide him with everything he needs.C. Because he ate sweet potatoes.17. What is the best way to keep diet?A. To eat every kind of food.B. To eat less meat.C. To eat less and exercise more.听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。18. When did the speaker first see the film?A. Last night. B. At the age of 20.C. At the age of 9.19. Why did the speaker think it was a good film for the girls?A. Because she liked it at their age.B. Because it was a story about animals.C. Because it was a funny story.20. What is the video about?A. Romeo and Juliet.B.A love story between two dogs.C. Different lives of two dogs.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，并标在答题卡上涂黑。AEarth Day Photo Contest A picture is worth a thousand words! Enter the TFK photo contest and show us: Why is Earth Day important to our planet?To enter online, /2017earthdaycontestand get details below.TIME The contest begins on January 9, 2017. The contest ends on April 20, 2017. INSTRUCTIONS An original and previously unpublished photograph that answers the Earth Day question “Why is Earth Day important to our planet?” and that was photographed by the Entrant (参赛者) between June 1, 2016, and April 20, 2017. A caption describing the picture, what is happening, where the photo was taken, the date the photo was taken and why Entrant chose to enter this image. Entrants first name only; Entrants email address; and parents, teachers or guardians email address. Limit one entry per person. Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, or incomplete entries, or entries not received for any reason. Entries belong to Sponsor, and none will be acknowledged or returned. By entering, Entrant guarantees that the entry is original and has not been published in any medium or won an award.ELIGIBILITY（参赛资格） Open to residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are elementary school students ages 813 years at time of entry.WINNERS LIST and PRIZES Judges will select 10 Semifinalists from which one Grand-Prize Winner and nine Finalists will be chosen. The Grand-Prize Winner will receive a digital cameraapproximate retail (零售) value: $300.00. The photograph entry of the Grand-Prize Winner will be published in the April 22 Earth Day issue of TIME For Kids. The photograph entries of all Semifinalists will be published in the gallery of . Winner will be informed by email, and must respond within five days. 21. An Entrant who will participate in the photo contest should _. A. send an original photo establishing the Earth Day B. present a relevant description of the photo entry C. inform the sponsor of his or her delayed email D. offer his or her email address and family name 22. What do we know about the photograph entry of the winner? A. It will be published in a magazine and a gallery. B. It will be evaluated at approximately $300.00. C. It will be selected from nine Finalists entries. D. It will be acknowledged and returned afterwards. 23. Who is eligible to enter the photo contest?A. a college student in the USAB. a teacher of an elementary school in New YorkC. a 10-year-old elementary school student in CaliforniaD. an American professional photographer.BBill Gates recently predicted that online learning will make place-based colleges less significant, and five years from now, students will be able to find the best lectures in the world online. I applaud Mr. Gates. But whats taking us so long?As early as 1997, MIT (麻省理工）decided to post videos of all university lectures online, for free, for all people. But today, how many students have you met who mastered advanced mathematics or nuclear physics from an MIT online video? Unfortunately, the answer is not many.The problem is the poor quality of online education websites and the experience they provide to students. Those who go to the MIT website and watch courses online are surely very smart people, but ifs not like playing a video game such as World of Warcraft. Only the most ardent students, those who are highly motivated, will devote themselves to studying these boring online videos.The real question is why we arent spending more to develop better online education platforms. Where is the Avatar of education? Think about this. The market for Hollywood films per year is worth around 30 billion USD. Education in the world is a trillion-dollar-a-year market, hundreds of times bigger than Hollywood movies. Yet the most expensive digital learning system ever built cost well under 100 million dollars.Bill Gates prediction is going to happen. There is no doubt about it. But it will only happen when we create high level educational content and experiences t hat engage and excite more than has ever been possible in the real world.24. What has Bill Gates forecast about online learning? A. It will concentrate on physics lectures. B. It will completely replace real universities. C. It will help to make universities more successful. D. It will play an increasingly important role in education.25. What does the underlined word “ardent” in Paragraph 3 mean?. A. Creative. B. Enthusiastic. C. Well-behaved. D. Experienced.26. According to the author, what is holding back the popularity of online learning? A. The lack of lectures available online. B. The high cost of access to the websites. C. The low standard of educational websites. D. The competition with online computer games.27. Why does the author mention Hollywood? A. To show that Hollywood produces many successful movies. B. To prove that education is more profitable than entertainment. C. To argue that movie directors should produce educational content. D. To urge that more money be spent developing educational websites.CPersuasion is the art of convincing someone to agree with you. According to the ancient Greeks, there are three basic tools of persuasion : ethos, pathos, and logos.Ethos is a speakers way of convincing the audience that she is trustworthy, honest and reliable. One common way a speaker can develop ethos is by explaining how much experience or education she has in the field. After all, youre more likely to listen to advice about how to take careof your teeth from a dentist than a fireman. A speaker can also create ethos by convincing the audience that she is a good person. If an audience cannot trust you, you will not be able to persuade them.Pathos is a speakers way of connecting with an audiences emotions. For example, a politician who is trying to convince an audience to vote for him might say that he alone can save the country from a terrible war. These words are intended to fill the audience with fear, thus making them support him. Similarly, an animal charity might show an audience pictures of injured dogs and cats, to make the viewers feel pity. If the audience feels bad for the animals, they will be more likely to donate money.Logos is the use of facts, statistics, or other evidence to support your argument. An audience will be more likely to believe you if you have convincing data to back up your claims. Presenting this evidence is much more persuasive than simply saying “believe me”.Although ethos, pathos, and logos all have their strengths, they are often most effective when used together. Indeed, most speakers use a combination of ethos, pathos, and logos to persuade their audiences. So, the next time you listen to a speech, watch a commercial, or listen to a friend try to convince you to lend him some money, be on the lookout for these ancient Greek tools of persuasion.28. Why does the author say persuasion is an art? A. They both entertain the audience. B. They both require great skill to achieve. C. They both demand full attention from the audience. D. They were both common topics of ancient Greek writers.29. How is a speaker able to show her ethos to the audience? A. By expressing her sympathy with the audience. B. By telling the audience about her personal preference. C. By using beautiful language to make her statements attractive. D. By showing her knowledge and experience relating to the topic. .30. What can we learn about the three aspects of persuasion? A. Ethos is the most important aspect of persuasion. B. Each aspect has a different effect on the audience. C. Honesty is the key to making your arguments believable. D. Political leaders mostly use pathos to persuade their audience.31. An advertisement for washing powder which claims that many scientific tests show that our powder kills 95% of all bacteria” is mainly using _. A. ethos B. pathos C. logos D. a combination of all threeDAbout 15 years ago, I taught A Problem from Hell, a book on genocides (大屠杀), to a group of 18- and 19-year-olds in a mid-west university in the US. In my class there was a young man who had spent his boyhood in Bosnia as NATO bombed his hometown. My other students, amazed by his connection to the genocide in the textbook, asked him what it was like to grow up in a war-zone. “A pretty normal childhood as you had here,” he said. “We played cards inside a lot, and when there was no bombing we kicked a ball in the street.”In the past few years, the world has seen a rapid increase in refugees (难民), with the number hitting 60 million. Viet Thanh Nguyens story collection The Refugees reminds us that literature is news that stays news. Set in the Vietnamese communities in California as well as in Vietnam, the stories do not aim to surprise us with new twists or shock us with wonderful details, as war and refugee stories could easily choose to do. Rather, like the young man from Bosnia, Nguyens characters tell these stories because they are the only ones known to them.Included in the collection are two of the most touching pieces, both about siblings (兄弟或姊妹) separated by geography and history. In “Black-Eyed Women”, the narrator (讲述人), a young Vietnamese woman, is visited by the ghost of her elder brother, who died young on the boat when the family took flight from the war. The tale of love and loss, violence and violation, may not be unfamiliar to the reader, but the determination of the brothers ghost (he has taken decades to swim across the Pacific to reach America) and the sisters abandoning herself to a half death make the story lasting.As an echo, the closing story, “Fatherland”, explores a more complex situation between two siblings. The narrator, a young Vietnamese woman, meets her half-sister, visiting from the US for the first time. Adding to the tension is the fact that her father has named the narrator and her siblings after his first set of children. Two sisters, one American and one Vietnamese, yet named the same by the father it may sound strange, but isnt it the fate many refugees have to face: a life left behind, that could have been theirs; and a life in an adopted country. The theme of doubleness choice and inevitability (不可避免性), home and homelessness, starting afresh and being stuck is present not only in the stories of Vietnamese refugees, but also of those who have become refugees from their own homes and loved ones. “Smiling at your relatives never got you very far, but smiling at strangers and acquaintances sometimes did.” So a pilot, who fought in the Vietnam war and is now revisiting the country for the first time, thinks while waving at the locals from a tour bus. Hes distant from his daughter, just as a Mexican American in the collection is distant from his wife, or a young man from Hong Kong is distant from his father. The collection is full of refugees, whether from external or from a deeper, more internal conflict between even those who are closest to each other. With anger but not despair, with reconciliation (和解) but not unrealistic hope, and with genuine humour that is not used to insult anyone, Nguyen has breathed life into many unforgettable characters.32. The first paragraph is intended to _. A. describe the boring life of war victims B. appeal to the readers to help war victims C. criticize NATOs killing of innocent people D. introduce the story collection The Refugees33. Which of the following about The Refugees is True? A. It tells the news in a literary form. B. It is full of surprising twists and plots. C. The author experiences the stories himself. D. Its characters narrate their own stories.34. We can infer from Paragraph 5 that _. A. relatives hate their loved ones for being left behind B. separation from loved ones tends to make them distant C. people become refugees due to their double character D. smiling is a good way to keep loved ones together35. Which of the following is the theme of The Refugees？ A. Despair, suffering, and regret. B. Anger, humour and hope. C. Sympathy, regret, and reconciliation.D. Dream, hope, and expectation.第二节 (共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。Your brain controls everything you do. It makes it possible for you to think, learn, create and feel; to blink(眨眼) and breathe and for your heart to beatthis fantastic control center is your brain. 1._Can this small grey organ(器官)，which weighs less than one and a half kilos, really do so much? Amazingly, your brain contains about 100 billion neurons(神经元）it would take you over 3,000 years to count them all. 2._ Your neurons create and send more messages than all the phones in the world. And although one neuron creates only a little electricity, all your neurons together can produce enough electricity to power a light bulb(灯泡).So exactly how fast does your brain work? 3._ Neurons in your skin send this information to your brain at a speed of more than 240 kilometers per hour. Your brain then uses other neurons to send the message back to your foot to shake the bee off quickly. 4._ No computer has your brains unbelievable ability to deal with the amount of information coming from your eyes, ears and other sensory organs. But how does your brain allow you to learn things that you will use in the future? The structure(结构) of your brain changes every time you have a new thought, remember or learn something. 5._ How? As you practice, your brain sends “bike riding” messages again and again. Soon, the actions are learnt and you are able to ride a bike easily from then on.A. Well, imagine this: a bee lands on your foot.B. Therefore, it is not surprising to see that somebody with average intelligence (智力) can have excellent performances in some fields.C. Believe it or not, the activity in your brain never stops.D. It is so amazing that a famous scientist once called it “the most complex (复杂) thing we have yet discovered in