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高新部2017届高三考前模拟考试（一）英语试题第i卷（选择题 共100分）第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分） 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。1.what time is it now?a. 9:10 b.9:50 c.10:002.what does the woman think of the weather?a. its nice. b. its warm. c. its cold.3.what will the man do? a. attend a meeting b. give a lecture c. leave his office4.what is the womans opinion about the course?a. too hard b. worth taking c. very easy.5.what does the woman want the man to do?a. speak louder b. apologize to her c. turn off the radio.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，从题中所给我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段对话，回答第6、7题。6.how long did michael stay inchina?a,five days. b. one week c.two weeks7.where did michael go last year?a.russia b.norway c. india听第7段对话，回答第8、9题。8.what food does sally like?a. chicken b. fish c. eggs9.what are the speakers going to do?a. cook dinnerb. go shoppingc. order dishes听第8段对话，回答第10至12题。10. where are the speakers?a. in a hospitalb. in the officec. at home11.when is the report due?a. thursdayb. fridayc. next monday12.what does george suggest stephanie do with the report?a. improveb. hand it in laterc. leave it with him.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13.what is the probable relationship between the speakers?a. salesperson and customerb. homeowner and cleanerc. husband and wife14.what kind of apartment do the speakers prefer?a.one with two bedrooms.b. one without furniturec. one near a market.15.how much rend should one pay for the one-bedroom apartment?a.350.b.400.c.41516.where is the apartment the speakers would like to see?a. onlake street.b. onmarket street.c. onsouth street.听第10材料，回答第17至20题。17.what percentage of the worlds tea exports go tobritain?a. almost 15%b. about 30%c. over 40%18.why do tea tasters taste tea with milk?a. most british people drink tea that way.b. tea tastes much better with milk.c. tea with milk is healthy.19.who suggests a price for each tea?a.tea tasters.b. tea exporters.c. tea companies.20.what is the speaker talking about?a. the life of tea tasters.b. afternoon tea inbritain.c. thelondontea trade centre.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)afor many people, being on the job might just sound like a picnic compared to a day at home filled with housework, meals and childcare. even for those with a happy family life, home can sometimes feel more taxing than work.in a new study, researchers at penn state university found significantly and consistently lower levels of cortisol(皮质醇) released in response to stress, in a majority of subjects when they were at work compared to when they were at home. this was true for both men and women, and parents and people without children.both men and women showed less stress at work. but women were more likely to report feeling happier there. men were more likely to feel happier at home. experts say there are other reasons why work is less stressful than home for many. “paid work is more valued in society,” says sarah damaske, the lead researcher on the study. “household work is boring and not particularly rewarding.”we get better at our job with time and the increased competence means less stress and more rewards. yet none of us, no matter how long weve been doing it, ever truly feels like an expert at parenting or even at marriage.the support and friendship of co-workers also offer stress relief. at home, meanwhile, stress spreads and accumulates quickly. “thats the reason why most housewives wish they were the bread earners,” dr. damaske says.much of the advice to families and couples include the warning to “leave work stress at the office” and even to change our mind-set from work to home, for example, a walk around the block. the recent findings, though, suggest our home life, not our attitude, might be due for some change.21which of the following can replace the underlined word “taxing”?a. stressful. b. cheerful. c. worthwhile. d. rewarding.22what did the research in the second paragraph prove?a. men felt better at home.b. women felt they had less time.c. women were easier to feel happier.d. most people felt more stress at home.23what do most people think of work at office?a. it is competitive. b. it improves ability.c. it cant relieve stress. d. it doesnt always pay off.24according to the recent findings, what should we change to solve the problem mentioned?a. our attitude. b. our mind-set.c. our home life. d. our working style.bits an ordinary morning，like all the othersbut instead of being woken up by the buzzing of an alarm clock, youll be roused by the smell of freshly made coffee，light entering your room as the curtains open automatically，and a gentle back massage（按摩）provided by your high-tech bed.this is what a typical(典型的) persons life will be like two decades from now，according to the guardian. want to know more?after you get up, your apartment will be like an electronic orchestra with you as the conductor. with simple moves of your hand and spoken instructions, youll be able to control your apartments temperature, humidity, music and lighting. youll be able to look through the days news on translucent screens while your breakfast waits for you in the automatic oven.as you move into your kitchen, you might accidentally hit your toe on a cupboard. if you do, youll grab your cell phone and open the diagnostics(诊断) app. inside your phone there will be a tiny microchip(芯片) that uses x-ray waves to scan your body. the scan will tell whether your toe is bruised or broken.after breakfast, your driverless car will take you to work. while you “drive”, your central computer system will suggest a list of chores(家务事) that your housekeeping robots can do that day and it will also remind you to buy a gift for your mothers upcoming birthday.as you can see, with the help of advanced technology, our lives will be more efficient(有效率的). technology will mitigate our forgetfulness and free us of many small burdens that distract us, such as buying a ticket. our brain will therefore be able to focus on more important things like preparing for a presentation or doing “deep thinking”.however, the development of technology might have some disadvantages as well. by 2036, well be relying heavily on the virtual(虚拟的) world, which will mean that all of our data will be stored in the cloud, a remote digital storage system with near limitless capacity(容量). that will increase the possibility of someone else accessing, sharing or manipulating(操控) our personal information.25what might be the authors purpose in writing the text?a. to stress the importance of developing technology.b. to remind people not to depend too much on computersc. to introduce one new invention that will benefit our future lives.d. to describe how advanced technologies will affect our future lives.26according to the text, in two decades, _.a. youll be able to rely on an electronic orchestra to wake you up instead of an alarm clockb. a tiny microchip in your phone will treat you when you are sickc. you will be able to adjust the conditions of your apartment via oral instructions or simple hand gesturesd. technology will be smart enough to help us with important things like preparing for a presentation27what does the underlined word “mitigate” in paragraph 6 mean?a. make up for. b. worsen. c. cure. d. take advantage of.cwhen we know somewhere well，we say we “know it like the back of our hand”. but new research has shown that we dont actually know as much about our hands as we think we do.wider and shorterprofessor matthew longo at the university of london and his team did an experiment, covering the left hands of 100 people. then they asked the people to point to where they thought their fingertips and knuckles (指关节) were. they made some quite big mistakes.“people think their hand is wider than it actually is,” said longo. the fingers also seem shorter than they are. this mistake gets worse as you go across the hand from the thumb to the little finger.sense of position“it is connected to our sense of position,” explained longo. this is our ability to tell where different parts of our bodies are, even when we cant see them. “it tells us whether a joint is straight, or not” he said. it also tells us whether we are going up or down in an elevator. all this information comes from signs from nerves in real time. its like our brain has maps maps that show the size and shape of our body. “this experiment tried to find those maps,” said longo.strength(强度) of feelingbut these maps make mistakes. these mistakes may be made because of how the brain understands different parts of the skin. “our brains see areas as larger where the skin feels touch strongly,” said longo. body parts dont appear as their true size, but appear bigger or smaller depending on how strongly they feel touch. our lips, for example, have more nerves than our nose. so brain “sees” lips on its map of the body as being bigger than our nose. the same thing happens for other parts of the body that have lots of nerves.longo believes that more research in this area may help us to understand eating problem better, because people suffering from these problems may not know their bodies properly.28which of following statement is true about the experiment according to the article?a. people think their body parts are larger than they actually are.b. people made more mistakes about their little fingers length than their thumbs length.c. peoples fingers are actually shorter than they think.d. people were asked to draw their hands from memory29what does the underlined “it” in paragraph 4 refer to?a. the new experiment. b. the location information.c. the mistake people made. d. the sizes of fingers and hands.30we can learn from the article that _.a. the maps of peoples bodies form before they are bornb. the maps of our body are based on information from nervesc. our sense of position tells how different parts of the body workd. how we feel about our body shape is only decided by our sense of position31we can infer from the article that _.a. the hand feels touch more strongly than fingers dob. our lips have a weaker sense of touch than our nosec. there are more nerves in the finger than in the handd. our sense of position should not be trusted because it is too often incorrectdcertain aspects of music have the same effect on people even when they live in very different societies, a new study reveals.researchers asked 40 mbenzele pygmies in the congolese rainforest to listen to short clips of music. they were asked to listen to their own music and to unfamiliar western music.the same 19 selections of music were also played to 40 amateur or professional musicians in montreal. musicians were included in the montreal group because mbenzele pygmies could be considered musicians as they all sing regularly for ceremonial purposes, the study authors explained.both groups were asked to rate how the music made them feel using emoticons, such as happy, sad or excited faces.there were significant differences between the two groups as to whether a specific piece of music made them feel good or bad. however, both groups had similar responses to how exciting or calming they found the different types of music.our major discovery is that listeners from very different groups both responded to how exciting or calming they felt the music to be in similar ways, hauke egermann, of the technical university of berlin, said in a news release from mcgill university in montreal. egermann conducted part of the study as a postdoctoral fellow at mcgill.the montreal participants felt a wider range of emotions as they listened to the western music than the pygmies expressed when listening to either their own or western music. this may be due to the different roles music plays in the two cultures.negative emotions are felt to disturb the harmony of the forest in pygmy culture and are therefore dangerous, nathalie fernando, of the university of montreals faculty of music, said in the news release. if a baby is crying, the mbenzele will sing a happy song. if the men are scared of going hunting, they will sing a happy song in general, music is used in this culture to evacuate all negative emotions, so it is not really surprising that the mbenzele feel that all the music they hear makes them feel good, she explained.32why could mbenzele pygmies be regarded as musicians?a. they are crazy about music.b. they major in music at school.c. they can play musical instruments well.d. they often sing songs on ceremony.33the study mainly finds that _.a. music is universal across culturesb. music varies among different countriesc. western music results in negative emotionsd. music makes people happy34the underlined word “evacuate” probably means _.a. set off b. benefit from c. get rid of d. account for35the examples mentioned in the last paragraph are to show that _.a. music plays different roles in the two culturesb. music plays the same role in the two culturesc. negative music disturbs the harmony of the forestd. happy music is welcomed everywhere第二节 (共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)根据短文内容，从短文后的七个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the way to lift up your moodeveryone has periods in their lives when everything seems very hard, when theres nobody to talk to and the mood (情绪)is just getting worse and worse. 36 the first thing you should try is socializing and thinking positively. its very hard, because usually when we feel sad we lock ourselves at home and try to think about all the bad things we have. bui if youll try to force yourself and call a friend for a cup of coffee, the chances for changing your mood into better are very good. just try to avoid bad thoughts. 37 38 it could be something you wanted for a long time a short trip, a coat, a ring or anything that could lift up your mood. it doesnt have to be costly, but it has to be good to yourself.not only giving gifts to yourself can lift up your mood. 39 think of your friends, family, relatives or even local charities (慈善机构), choose one person and give him a gift. it doesnt have to be something expensive or big. it may be just a little toy to your poor neighbors child. making another person feel happy will make you feel good in your heart and mind.take control of your feelings. dont let them control you. 40 just follow the advice above and start doing something.a. cry aloud if you feel it is necessary.b. here are some things that may help you lift up your mood.c. making yourself feel better isnt that hard.d. buying things to others may be a perfect way to feel happy.e. do your best to find someone to talk to.f. instead, try to think about the bright side of your life.g. you should also try doing something only for yourself, something totally selfish.第三部分 英语知识运用（满分45分）第一节 完形填空（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。dear son,i have been thinking very hard about how your little world is about to change. for two and a half years, our 41 have been on you every morning and night, 42 your wet hair after you have a bath, 43 away every one of your tears when you get 44 and cry, and hugging you on the couch.after tomorrow, youll be going from being our little boy to our big boy and a big 45 . i still 46 becoming a big sister myself: i was almost eight, so it was very 47 from the way it will be for you. your father was 10 when his first sister came along, but 48 of us knows what it will be like for you.i remember how much i 49 sharing the love, and i shouted when my brother 50 my birthday party. i 51 him over and he needed stitches (缝线) to fix the cut above his eyebrow. i was very 52 for being so rude to him and i was nicer to him from then on. your father was much 53 and was more patient than i was back then. i know that this will 54 you for the better, i hope. you have 55 told me that you are not a baby any more, 56 i can see that you are taking big steps forward into independence. i hope that 57 your little sister comes, you will enjoy our new family.y