广东省广州市2019届高三英语第二次模拟考试试题.doc

广东省广州市2019届高三英语第二次模拟考试试题2019.4本试卷10页,满分120分，考试用时120分钟。注意事项：1.本试卷分第I卷(选择题)和和第卷(非选择题)两部分。答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考生号、考场号和座位号填写在答题卡上。用2B铅笔将试卷类型(A)填涂在答题卡相应位置上。用2B铅笔在“考生号”处填涂考生号信息点，修改时须用橡皮擦干净。因笔试不考听力，第I卷从第二部分的“阅读理解”开始,试题题序号从“21”开始。2.作答第I卷时,选出每小题答案后,用2B铅笔在答题卡上对应题目选项的答案信息点涂黑；如需要改动，用橡皮擦干净后,再选涂其他答案。答案不能答在试卷上。3.第卷必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内相应位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案,然后再写上新答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液不按以上要求作答无效。4.考生必须保证答题卡的整洁。考试结束后,将试卷和答题卡一并并交回。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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。AThe country is India. A large dinner party is being given in an up-country station by acolonial official and his wife. The guests are army and government officers and their wives, and anAmerican naturalist.At one side of the long table, a spirited discussion springs up between a young girl and an armyofficer. The girl insists women have long outgrown the jumping-on-a-chair-at-the-sight-of-a-mouseera, and that they are not as anxious as their grandmothers were. The officer says they are,arguing women havent the actual nerve control of men.“A womans reaction in any crisis, the officer says,“is to scream. And while a man mayfeel like it, he has that ounce more of control than a woman has.The American scientist does not join in the argument but sits and watches the faces of theother guests. As he stares, he sees a slight, though strange look of anxiety e over the face of thehostess. With a small gesture she summons the servant standing behind her chair. She whispers tohim. The servants eyes widen. He turns quickly and leaves the room. No one else sees this, nor theservant when he puts a bowl of milk on the balcony outside the glass doors.The American understands. In India, milk in a bowl means only one thing. It is bait fora snake. He realizes there is a cobra in the room. The Americans eyes move across the roombut he sees nothing. He realizes the snake can only be in one place - under the table.His first reaction is to jump back and warn the others. But he knows any sudden movementwill frighten the cobra and it will strike. He speaks quickly, the quality of his voice so arrestingthat it quietens everyone.“I want to know just what control everyone at this table has. I will countthree hundred - thats five minutes - and not one of you is to move a single muscle. Now! Ready!The 20 people sit like stone images while he counts. He is saying .o. hundred and eighty.when, out of the corner of his eye, he sees the snake emerge and make for the bowl of milk. Four orfive screams ring out as he jumps to slam shut the balcony doors.“There is your proof! the host says.“A man has just shown us real control.“Just a minute, the American says, turning to his hostess,“How did you know that cobrawas in the room?A faint smile es across the womans face as she replies. “Because it was lying across myfoot.21. What is the argument between the army officer and the young girl about?A. Whether women are afraid of mice.B. Whether men are calmer than women.C. Whether men are cleverer than women.D. Whether women would make suitable soldiers.22. Why is the servant asked to put out some milk?A. To play a trick.B. To serve the guests.C. To attract the snake .D. To feed the hostesss pet.23. Why does the scientist suggest the guests play a game?A. He doesnt want anyone to panic.B. He intends to test the officers theory.C. He sees there was a snake in the room.D. He wants to entertain the other guests.24. What does the author imply through the hostesss final statement?A. The army officers opinion is wrong.B. The hostess understood the Americans intention.C. The American was surprised by the snakes presence.D. The hostess has had previous experience dealing with snakes.B25. What caused musicals to move in a new direction during the 1930s?A. The development of new musical instruments.B. The audience s demand for more realistic art forms.C. The rising popularity of other types of entertainment.D. The greater acceptance of black performers by white audiences.26. In which period did musical theatre bee more plex and dramatic?A. Pre - 1900.B. 1900- 1929.C.1940- 1949.D.1950- 1959.27. What can be reasonably inferred about the musical West Side Story?A. It told its story in a new way.B. It was based on a true story.C. It was a non-Broadway show.D. It was not very successful at first.CIn 1874 Francis Galton, a British professor, analysed a sample of English scientists and foundthe vast majority to be first-born sons. This led him to theorise that first-born children enjoyed aspecial level of attention from their parents that allowed them to advance intellctually. Half acentury later Alfred Adler, an Austrian psychologist, made a similar argument relating to personality.First-born children, he suggested, were more diligent, while the later-born were more outgoing andemotionally stable. Many subsequent studies have explored these ideas, but their findings have beenvaried - some supporting and some rejecting the original conclusions.The main problem with the previous studies is that they were too small - often limited to afew dozen individuals. This would be true even if the statistical methods needed to analyse the datawere simple, but they are not. Distinguishing birth-order effects from those caused by family sizeplicates matters, meaning still bigger samples must be analysed to obtain meaningful results.To overe the limitation of these earlier studies, German social scientist Dr. HelmetSchmukle and his colleagues analysed three huge sets of data from America, Britain and Germany.These data sets, though collected for other purposes, included personality and intelligence tests on20, 186 people at different stages of their lives. The American tests were on individuals aged between29 and 35. The British tests were conducted on 50-year-olds. The German tests ran the whole span ofadult life, from 18 to 98.Birth order, they found, had no effect on personality: first-borns were no more, nor less,likely than their younger siblings to be hardworking, outgoing or anxious. But it did affectintelligence. In a family with two children, the first child was more intelligent than the second60% of the time, rather than the 50% that would be expected by chance. On average, thistranslated to a difference of 1.5 IQ points between first and second siblings. That figure agreeswith previous studies, and thus looks confirmed.It is, nevertheless, quite a small difference - and whether it is enough to account for Galtonsoriginal observation is unclear. In any event, it is certainly not deterministic. Galton was theyoungest of nine.28. Alfred Adler concluded that first-born children were.A. more stableB. more sociableC. more intelligentD. more hardworking29. What does the underlined“they in paragraph 2 refer to?A. The data.B. The analyses.C. The previous studies.D. The statistical methods.30. Why was Schmukles study considered superior to previous research?A. It involved a wider age range.B. It had a much larger sample size.C. It included a larger number of countries.D. It was conducted over a longer period of time.31. Why does the author mention Galtons family background in the last paragraph?A. To confirm Galtons difficult upbringing.B. To suggest Galtons theory may not be correct.C. To pare his experience with Galtons parents.D. To explain why Galton was interested in birth order.DPhotography has opened our eyes to a multitude of beauties, things we literally could nothave seen before the invention of the frozen image. It has greatly expanded our notion of whatis beautiful, what is aesthetically(审美上) pleasing. Items formerly considered trivial, and notworth an artists paint, have been revealed and honored by the photograph: things as ordinary as afence post, a chair, a vegetable. And as technology has developed, photographers have exploredpletely new points of view: those of the microscope, the eagle, the cosmos.What is it that delights the human eye and allows us to claim that a photograph is beautiful?Photography depends on the trinity of light, position, and moment. Light literally makes therecording of an image possible, but in the right hands, light in a photograph can make the image soar. The same is true with position. What the photographer chooses to keep in or out of theframe is all that we will ever see - but that bination is vital. And the moment that the shutter ispressed, when an instant is frozen in time, provides the whole image with meaning. When thethree - light, position, and moment - are in balance, there is visual magic.Light, position, and moment e together in a photograph to bring us the ultimatereality: a view of the world unknown prior to the invention of the camera. Before photography, thebasic artistic rules of painting were rarely broken. Images were made to please, not to capturereality. But as photography evolved, painterly rules were often reacted in the pursuit of fresh vision.Photographers became interested in the real world, good and bad, and it was the accidental detail thatwas celebrated. Photography invited the world to see with new eyes - to see photographically - andall of the arts have drawn new inspiration from this change.With these basic aesthetic tools, photographers have evolved from scientists longing to“fixan image - any image - to artistic revolutionaries. Photographs have created a new way of seeing,changed our ideas of beauty and, most importantly, made art more democratic. They have given usvisual proof that the world is grander than we imagined, and that there is beauty, often overlooked, in nearly everything.32. Before the invention of photography, which of the following was least likely to appear in anartistic work?A. A great person.B. A lovely insect.C. A grand building.D. A beautiful landscape.33. What is the function of paragraph 2?A. To argue that photographic beauty is subjective.B. To explain the evolution of the concept of beauty.C. To describe the elements that make a successful photo.D. To illustrate different types of photographic techniques.34. How has photography affected other art forms?A. It has reduced their popularity.B. It has forced them to change their rules.C. It has changed their methods of position.D. It has provided them with new points of view.35. What does the author mean by saying photography has“made art more democratic ?A. It has expanded the concept of artistic beauty.B. It has challenged the status of traditional art forms.C. It has enabled the development of new artistic tools.D. It has allowed more people to take part in creative activities.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。What is culture?Culture is too plex to define in simple terms._ 36_ One is that culture is a total patternof behaviour that is consistent in its ponents. Another fundamental is that culture is learnedbehaviour. The third is that culture is behaviour that is shared by a group of people.To understand the culture of a particular country or region, one could examine its ponents,among which are material culture, language, and social organisation. Material culture includes thetools and symbols in a society, not including those physical things found in nature, unless they haveundergone some change or have been given meaning by people._ 37_The way we consumeand what we consume are heavily influenced by material culture._38_ Linked with all other aspects of culture, it reflects the nature and values of thatculture. Industrialised societies have a rich vocabulary for mercial and industrial activities, whileless industrialised societies may have richer vocabularies for matters important to their societies. TheEskimos in Alaska have many words to describe snow whereas English has only one general term.Social organisation differs somewhat from society to society. The primary kind of munityassociation is based on blood ties._ 39_. It provides mutual protection, psychological support,and a kind of economic insurance or social security for its members. The term brothers in Zaireincludes those whom we call cousins and uncles.Cultural analysis serves a variety of purposes. Understanding the various dimensions and theirinter- relatedness helps promote cross-cultural awareness._ 40_A. Some scholars even suggest that it is useless to try.B. Language is the most obvious difference between cultures.C. However, there are certain agreed- on fundamentals that can be easily identified.D. The values represented within a culture can also change with the passing of time.E. For example, a mouse running on a street is not part of a culture, but the Mickey Mouse is.F. In many developing countries, the extended family fulfills several social and economic roles.G. It leads on to the promotion of goodwill, social and economic planning and harmony betweensocial groupings or societies.第三部分:英语知识运用(共两节，满分45分)第一节(共20小题:每小题1.5分，满分30分)阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。Always wished the Earth had a second moon? Then you will be_ 41_ to hear that theChengdu Aerospace Science Institute has plans to launch multiple mini moons over the nextfew years.Similar to our_ 42_ satellite, the light of the artificial orb (球体) will be obtained from thesunand_ 43_ to Earth by its mirror-like coating. According to its designers, the_ 44_ of light beingreflected can be controlled from Earth and the light can even be_ 45_ , if necessary.While the multiple mini moons will certainly appear picturesque, their main purpose is toconserve_ 46_ The Chengdu Aerospace experts claim the mini moons dusk-like glow will allowthe government to eventually_ 47_ costly streetlights in cities. They estimate that using the artificialsatellite to light up Chengdus streets at night will_ 48_ the city 1.2 billion yuan anally. Since theorbs location can be_ 49_ moved, it could also be used to shine light over disaster-struck areas thathave lost_ 50_Once the first mini moonis_ 51_ successfully, the experts plan to launch three_52_ ones.Together, the satellites, which will take turns depending on their_ 53_ in relation to the sun, areexpected to_ 54_an area of 3,600 to 6,400 square kilometers. While the orbs will be_55_ througha telescope from anywhere on the globe, their real beauty will only be seen by visiting Chengdu.Officials,_ 56_ , believe they will be a huge tourist attraction, helping improve the citys _57_.As is often the case with major _ 58_ , some experts are concerned. They _ 59_ that themoons will impact on the sleep patterns of humans and animals. However, officials believe thesatellites will cause little, if any,_ 60_.41. A. pleasedB. surprisedC. alarmedD. relieved42. A. traditionalB. uniqueC. naturalD. famous43. A. carriedB. reflectedC. introducedD. transformed44. A. colourB. speedC. sourceD. amount45. A. sent outB. switched offC. given awayD. turned down46. A. resourcesB. animalsC. farmlandD. space47. A. rebuildB. expand C. improveD. remove48. A. bringB. leaveC. saveD. cost49. A. hardlyB. easilyC. frequentlyD. normally50. A. moneyB. homeC. contactD. power51. A. travellingB. appearingC. workingD. signaling52. A. additionalB. specialC. brightD. colourful53. A. sizeB. importanceC. position D. function54. A. pick upB. take upC. hold upD. light up55. A. reliableB. visibleC. availableD. testable56. A. thereforeB. howeverC. otherwiseD. moreover57. A. populationB. educationC. evolutionD. conflict58. A. drawbackB. breakthroughsC. technologyD. economy59. A.doubtB. concludeC. worryD. agree60. A. disturbanceB. destructionC. satisfactionD. discussion第二节(共10小题:每小题1.5分，满分15分)阅读下面材料，在空白处填写1个适当的单词或用括号内单词的正确形式。A grape seed that falls into the soil of Xinjiang is very fortunate, as Xinjiangis 61_ (well)suited for growing grapes than anywhere else. Here, a grape seed can grow to its full potential._ 62_its high altitudes(海拔), long periods of dry weather and abundant sunshine, Xinjiang produces fruitswith