2016年河南郑州市高三第二次模拟英语试题及答案.docx

河南省郑州市2016届高三第二次模拟考试英 语 试 题 本试卷分第卷（选择题）和第卷（非选择题）两部分。考试时间120分钟，满分150分（听力成绩算作参考分）。考生应首先阅读答题卡上的文字信息，然后在答题卡上作答，在试题卷上作答无效。第卷第一部分 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15分，满分75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。1. How does the woman feel about smoking indoors? A. Terrible. B. Acceptable. C. Indifferent.2. Where are the two speakers? A. At a party. B. In a hospital. C. In a shop.3. What can we infer about the woman from the talk? A. She is a little worried. B. She is on vacation now. C. She isnt eager to find a job.4. When will Mr. Addison return? A. On Thursday night. B. On Friday morning. C. On Monday afternoon.5. What did the two girls do yesterday? A. They worked far into the night. B. They had a big dinner with Jeff. C. They went to the English evening.第二节（共15小题；每小题15分，满分225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、7题。6. What is the possible relationship between the two speakers? A. Policeman and driver. B. Salesman and customer. C. Manager and secretary.7. How much will the woman have to pay in all? A. $15. B. $50. C. $65.听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。8. Where does this conversation probably take place? A. In a flat building. B. In the mans office. C. In the womans house.9. What is the woman looking for? A. A 2-bedroom flat. B. A 3-bedroom flat. C. A large room.10. What does the woman think of the flat? A. It is too small to live in. B. It is too expensive to buy. C. It is satisfying on the whole.听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。11. What is the good news for the two speakers? A. They will be better paid soon. B. They will have more vacation. C. They will have a better position.12. How did the man know the good news? A. He got it from an official. B. He heard it when announced. C. He learned it from a newspaper.13. How does the woman like their present work? A. Interesting. B. Boring. C. Challenging.听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。14. What is James busy doing these days? A. Visiting his pen friend. B. Preparing for his final exam. C. Traveling around the country.15. How will James go camping? A. By bike. B. By bus. C. On foot.16. What wrong idea did James have about camping? A. Camping was so expensive. B. Camping was quite relaxing. C. He could camp wherever he wanted.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What is John Smith talking about?A. His wifes interests. B. His after-work activities. C. His success as an expert climber.18. What is the man going to do next year? A. Climb the Alps with his wife. B. Complete a course of climbing. C. Enter for the London Marathon.19. Why does the man run every day? A. To keep fit and healthy. B. To solve some difficult problems. C. To finish a course in physical training.20. When did the man do easy climbs in the Alps? A. Last year. B. 20 years ago. C. A few years ago.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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 AJumanji（勇敢者的游戏）is a story for children about a very strange gamea game that becomes far too real and frightening for the players. It was a story by Chris Van Allsburg, which was later filmed in 1996, starring the famous American actor Robin Williams. The story begins in 1869 in New Hampshire, America. Two young brothers bury a box under some trees. A hundred years later, in 1969, a boy, Alan Panish, finds the box and takes it home. He is unhappy that his father may want to send him to a boarding school. Alans friend, Sarah, arrives, and they open the box. Inside is a board game. At the start of tile game, some words appear: “Do you want to leave the world behind and go back to the past? Then this is the game for you.” Suddenly Alan finds that he is disappearing into the game.The story has a deep meaning. Through his adventures Alan learns something importantif you face your fears, your problems will go away. Alan turns to face Van Pelt, the hunter who is trying to kill him. In doing so, he completes the game and returns to reality. Then he finds that his father is not going to send him to a boarding school after all. In Jumanji, time is flexible. The film director Stephen Spielbergs “Back to the Future” films play with time in the same way. Top scientists even tell us now that time travel is theoretically possible !21. From the story we learn that Alan is a boy who _. A. dislikes his study at school B. is afraid of his serious father C. was born a hundred years ago D. goes back to the past in the game22. Through the game Alan has realized that whenever he has difficulties he should _. A. escape into the past B. face them bravely C. ask for his fathers advice D. read the words on the box23. What does the author mean when he says time is flexible? A. One can travel in time. B. Science can change the limit of time. C. Time travel is impossible in space. D. Time is a common topic in film-making.BIts that time of year when people need to lock their cars. Its not because there are a lot of criminals running around stealing cars. Rather, its because of good-hearted neighbors who want to share their harvest. Especially with this years large crop, leaving a car unlocked in my neighborhood is an invitation for someone to fill it with zucchini（西葫芦）. My sister, Sharon, recently had a good year for tomatoes. She and her family had eaten and canned so many that they had begun to feel their skin turn slightly red. Thats when she decided it was time to share her blessings. She started calling everyone she knew. When that failed, she began asking everyone in the neighborhood, eventually finding a neighbor delighted to have the tomatoes. “Feel free to take whatever you want,” Sharon told her. Later that day, Sharon found that her garden had indeed been harvested. She felt happy that she could help someone and that the food didnt go to waste. A few days later, Sharon answered the door. There was the neighbor, holding a hot loaf of bread. The neighbor smiled pleasantly, “I wanted to thank you for all of the tomatoes, and I have to admit that I took a few other things and hoped you wouldnt mind.” Sharon couldnt think of anything else in her garden that had been worth harvesting and said so. “Oh, but you did,” the neighbor said. “You had some of the prettiest zucchini Ive ever seen.” Sharon was confused. They hadnt even planted any zucchini. But her neighbor insisted that there really were bright-green zucchini in her garden. Sharon felt curious and decided to go to see where the zucchini had grown. The two of them walked together into the backyard. When the neighbor pointed at the long green vegetables, Sharon smiled. “Well, actually, those are cucumbers（黄瓜）that we never harvested, because they got too big, soft and bitter for eating.” The neighbor looked at Sharon, shock written all over her face. She gulped（哽住）a few times, and then, smiling, held out the bread, part of a batch she had shared all over the neighborhood. “I brought you a nice loaf of cucumber bread. I hope you like it.”24. Why does the author ware people in the neighborhood to lock their cars? A. They might be stolen by thieves at night. B. They might be moved away by the police. C. Their neighbors might fill them with their harvest. D. Their neighbors might throw cucumbers into them.25. How did Sharons friends react to the invitation to take her tomatoes? A. They did not accept her kind offer. B. They were all delighted to have the tomatoes. C. They said they would go when they were free. D. They began to tell everyone they knew about it.26. What did the neighbor do in Sharons garden? A. She only harvested some tomatoes. B. She took some cucumbers mistakenly. C. She took something with Sharons help. D. She harvested a few zucchini by accident.27. We can infer that the neighbors bread would taste _.A. soft and sweet B. hard and sour C. funny and bitter D. fragrant and deliciousCLand Art, sometimes referred to as Earth Art or Earthworks, is a form of art which involves using physical landscapes to create art, taking art out of the museum and into the outside world. Modern Land Art movement really got going in the 1960s, when American artists began creating Land Art on a large scale. Today, works of modern Land Art can be seen all over the world, sometimes right alongside much older pieces of Land Art created by people who lived thousands of years ago. Land Art, which is not necessarily unchangeable, can take a number of forms. For example, in 1970 Robert Smithson created the Spiral Jetty （螺旋状防波堤）, made of a collection of stones and mud, in the Great Salt Lake. The American artist made a large jetty in a spiral shape which sticks out into the waters of the lake. Reshaping the landscape is a common characteristic of Land Art, which can be created by moving parts around. People can also add things to the environment to create Land Art, like salt, which is added to the Spiral Jetty. It is possible to use plants. In all cases, Land Art is immovable. Land Art is designed to gradually form, change, and eventually decay（衰落）. Thats one of the biggest differences between Land Art and most of the art one sees in the museums. Some works of art can exist only for a few hours or days. Others are exposed to rain and wind so that they develop and decay over time, which is part of the attractiveness in the eyes of the artists.28. What can be learned from the first paragraph? A. Land Art was the most popular art in the 1960s. B. Land Art aims to get people interested in nature. C. American artists were the first to create Land Art. D. People have been creating Land Art for thousands of years.29. What do we know about Robert Smithson? A. He is a great creative artist. B. He lives near the Great Salt Lake. C. He made the most famous Land Art. D. He was a pioneer in creating Land Art.30. One of the unique characteristics of Land Art lies in _. A. it shows the extreme beauty of nature B. it develops and decays gradually over time C. it combines the landscapes around completely D. it offers the artists a chance to get close to nature31. What is the passage mainly about? A. Works of Land Art. B. History of Land Art.C. Changes of Land Art. D. Introduction of Land Art.DPeople have been wondering why elephants do not develop cancer even though they have lifespans（寿命）that are similar to humans, living for around 50 to 70 years. Now scientists believe they know why. A team at the University of Chicago, US has found that elephants carry a large number of genes that stop tumors（肿瘤）developing. To be precise, they found 20 copies of an anti-tumor gene called TP53 in elephants. Most other species, including humans, only carry one copy. According to the research, the extra copies of the gene improved the animals sensitivity to DNA damage, which lets the cells quickly kill themselves when damaged before they can go on to form deadly tumors. “An increased risk of developing cancer has stood in the way of the evolution of large body sizes in many animals ,” the study author Dr Vincent Lynch told The Guardian. If every living cell has the same chance of becoming cancerous（癌变的）, large creatures with a long lifespan like whales and elephants should have a greater risk of developing cancer than humans and mice. But across species, the risk of cancer does not show a connection with body mass. This phenomenon was found by Oxford University scientist Richard Peto in the 1970s and later named “Petos paradox（悖论）”. Biologists believe it results from larger animals using protection that many smaller animals do not. In the elephants case, the making of TP53 is natures way of keeping this species alive. The study also found that when the same genes were brought to life in mice, they had the same cancer resistance as elephants. This means researchers could use the discovery to develop new treatments that can help stop cancers spreading or even developing in the first place. “Nature has already figured out how to prevent cancer,” said Joshua Schiffman, a biologist at the School of Medicine, University of Utah, US. “Its up to us to learn how different animals deal with the problem so that we can use those strategies to prevent cancer in people.”32. Why are elephants unlikely to develop cancer? A. They have a rather large body size. B. Their genes suffer no DNA damage. C. Certain genes in their body kill existing tumors. D. They carry many genes to prevent tumors developing.33. According to the passage, what has been a risk in the evolution of large animals? A. Deadly tumors. B. The huge body mass. C. Cells killing themselves. D. Sensitivity to DNA damage.34. What does the underlined part “This phenomenon” in Paragraph 5 probably refer to?A. Larger animals have protection from TP53. B. The risk of cancer is not related to body size. C. Larger animals suffer the same risk of cancer as smaller ones. D. The larger animals are, the bigger risk of cancer they will have.35. What can be concluded from the passage? A. Depending on nature is surely enough to fight against cancer. B. The TP53 genes have proved useful in stopping cancer in people. C. Humans are expected to prevent cancer with the making of TP53. D. The extra copies of elephants genes are used to cure cancer patients.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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项Study Links Video Game Use to Problems in School A new study warns that too much time spent playing computer games could affect a childs performance at school. 36 They show that too many hours spent playing games can reduce students chances of success in school. More than 600 teenagers between the ages of 14 and 16 took part in the research project. _37 It is said to be the first ever long-term study in Northern Ireland on the influence of information technology on school test results. The study found that teenagers who played computer games less than once a week were more successful in school than those who played them twice a day or more. 41% of the students who used gaming devices two or more times a day received passing grades on school exams. 38 The study found that social media use did not affect school performance. Celine McStravick is the director of the National Childrens Bureau Northern Ireland. She says the study showed no connection between social media and test results. “ 39 I think thats more because social media is part of every childs life. Its the way they communicate. Its the way they keep in touch with their friends.”Many parents say their children are becoming increasingly dependent on computer games. Some have compared gaming to a drug addiction. 40 It suggested that computer games can cause children to stay awake late at night. Less sleep makes children tired and unable to pay attention in school the next day.A. However, the study did not explore addiction.B. The new games are much different from older ones.G. It was clear that social media didnt have any effect.D. It took place over a period of three years from 2013 to 2015.E. That compared with 77% of those who rarely played the games.F. Drug addiction does great harm to their health and performance at school.G. Britains National Childrens Bureau Northern Ireland reported the results of the study.第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题15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。 I had just started my second year studying at Cambridge University when I was faced with the news I had never expected. A lump in my neck 41 out to be cancer. I would 42 six months of chemotherapy（化疗）. After the shock, I was struck by this thought: my 43 didnt have any room for cancer. I had so much I wanted to 44 and so many goals I wanted to chase. I was faced with the 45 job of telling my friends and family. Then, I had to decide whether to 46 in Cambridge and take five exams at the end of the year. My doctor 47_ against it, and so did my parents and teachers. My doctors and teachers convinced me that taking some time off to 48 and relax would be the best thing for me. I could not think of anything 49 . I did not want to 50 a year of my life, receiving pity from those around me.Together with my parents, I tried to persuade the university to 51 me to stay at Cambridge and study only halt the course. At the end of the year I would take two exams. It was really a 52 to persuade them to agree. Treatment began and I was up and down from Cambridge to London every other week. It made me feel 53 , but to a much lesser degree than I had expected. I was 54 to read, eat and socialize exactly as I used to. I slept a lot and rested a lot, but I also worked hard at my studies. It gave me focus, and i