2019年1月郑州市高考一模英语试卷

1、精品文档2019 年郑州市高考一模英语试卷第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40 分）阅读下列短文， 从每题所给的 ABCD四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并且在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AA month ago, I broke a nail. My other nails looked amazing, but now one was a mess. Clearly, there was no point in keeping the others, so I look out the nail scissors to cut them all off.“What are you doing, Mom?”

2、my daughter cried,“your nails look great! Dontcutthem! ”“But theyre ruined, ”Isaid, waving the broken one in her face.“Theyre not ruined,”she said .”you still have nine nails left!”I hesitated, with the scissors still in my hand. My nails certainly werentperfect anymore, and the opposite of“perfect

3、”is “ruined”,right? I mean, this ishow I think about most things: itsall or nothing. Take my finances for example.I can spend weeks beingsensibleand buyingonlyessentialitems,such as foodfor my family. And then one day, Illsee something expensive that I really likeand buy it.Then, Ithinktomyself,“wel

4、l,Ialreadyspent 100dollarson thatdresslast week,so Imay as wellspend 50dollarson thislipstick（口红） ”and give up savingentirely, Ive thought about why I act this way, but I dontknow what causes thisbehavior. I seem to go from“good ”to “complete disaster”in a matter of moments. Mybrain only sees“perfec

5、t”or“disaster”,which is extremely unhelpful.We humans are never just good or bad-we are far more complex. We have wins andwe have lossesand,occasionally,theyarehard totellapart.Somepeople understandthis instinctively（本能地）， while others struggle. For most of us, learning notto do the thing were used

6、to requires effort and discomfort. However, we shouldremind ourselves that we sometimes make mistakes, and that this doesntmean we vefailed. We need to accept that things will sometimes go wrong.Indeed,failureispartoflife.Weallfalloccasionally,and we normally getstraight back up. And so, with my dau

7、ghterswords ringing in my ears, I decidedto keep my nine nice nails. I feel annoyed every time I look at my hands , but Im determinedto live withmy choice.It s a perfectexerciseinimperfection.Maybesoon, I llswitch off my computer the next time I feel like I might buy somethingelse I don tneed, altho

8、ugh I may need my daughter there to guide me again.21. why did the author want to cut off her nails?A.She got all of them ruined.B.She didntlike long nails at all.C.She didn twant to have imperfect nailsD.She wanted to prevent them beingbroken.22. what is the authorsproblem with her life?A. She is r

9、ather crazy about shoppingB. She looks at life in an extreme wayC. She is toocarefulwithher financesD.She isunwillingto change hermind.23. What does the author think of failure?A. It is just a normal part of lifeB. It can help people to be stronger。1欢迎下载精品文档C. It can completely destroy our lifeD. It

10、 is something we need to overcomeBMy son Sam is16 andautistic(自闭症 ).There s a lotof going on inthatbeautifuland brilliant mind of his, but even on a good day he can be easily at a loss. Throwin some diagnosedanxiety,an inabilitytoreadsocialcues( 信号 )and an unexpectedchange to his daily routine, and

11、you have the way to deal with a very publicmeltdown( 崩溃 ) 。It was Sam svery first day at high school. Wed set up a plan for how hed gethome: I dpick him up outside the shop near his school at 3:30 pm and I believedthis was a perfect plan. Unknown to me, very bad weather was on its way and I wasunabl

12、e to warm him to take a shelter.With the combination of his dead phone battery and my dead car battery, I wasrunning late and unable to communicate that to him. As a result, he was left aloneand extremely frightened. He became very upset outside the shop,exactly where Idtold him to wait.Thiswas when

13、 a beautifulolderVietnameselady not only went toCHECHON him,but took him insideher shop, calmed him down, got my phone number formhim and calledme.Five years later he continued to go into her shop every afternoon, bought adrink, hada chat and she senthim home with enough bread and rollsto feed a sma

14、llnation.Sam will graduate this year, and Im increasingly feeling the need to drop bythe shop to let this wonderful lady know that she has saved Sam, and that she hassaved me. I m not sure if I can communicate all of this, but at least I will getto thank her.There are people I will not get to thank,

15、 though-the many kind strangers whohave been there for Sam. And believe me, if youre wondering if this world is acomplete mess right now , Im here to say that is not.So I guess this is a love letter to those of you who have helped a strangerout of the goodness of your heart. Pleased know hyou are ap

16、preciated, that yourbeautiful heart and kindness are appreciated , and that ,perhaps unknowingly, youhave make a great difference in someoneslife.24. what can we learn about Sam from the first paragraph?A. He is rather slow with his studiesB. He can deal with sudden changes wellC. He has difficulty

17、in dealing with thingsD. He tries hard to learn how to read social cues25. The underlined part“check on”in paragraph 4 probably means“”A.discoverB.visitC.recognize D. examine26. what happened to Sam after his first day at high school?A.He couldgeton wellwithhisclassmatesB.He made good friendswiththe

18、nice ladyC. He brought the lady some food to thank her D.he became willing to communicatewith others.27. what is the authorspurpose in writing the passage?。2欢迎下载精品文档A. To express her thanks to kind peopleB. To remind us all to help autistic peopleC. To show how difficult life is for autistic peopleD

19、. To tell us how to make a difference in otherslives.CIf youve everhad a dog,you know justhow deep a connectionyou can developwith“mans best friend”. But a dogslife is much shorter than humans, about 12 to 15years long, which meansevery dog owner has to go through the heartbreaking momentwhen their

20、loving their loving pet passes away.Why not make a clone of that dog then? This is the solution offered by a SouthKoreacompany,SooamBiotechResearchFoundation.The company hasalreadysuccessfully cloned at least 400 dogs, mostly for US customers, ever s9ince itpioneered the technique in 2005. Now , soo

21、am Biotech has introduced its businessto UK dog owners as well, offering them dogs that look just like their lost ones.To clone a dog, researchers first need to take a skin cell from a living dog orone thathasjustdied.Meanwhile,anotherdogisselectedtosupplyanegg.Researchers then replace the DNA in th

22、e egg with that from skin cell and implantthe egg into the womb(子宫 ) of a female dog. The egg grows into a puppy over thefollowing two months.Thewholeprocesstakeslessthana day,butitcomes at a shockinglyhighpricearound 63000dollars. But if you cantafford it now, you can also save the cellin a laborat

23、ory and access it at a later date.However,magicalas cloningmightsound, thereisno guaranteethatthecloneddog willbe a perfectcopyofthe originalone. Justlikeidenticaltwinsofhuman,they share the exactly same DNA but there will still be small differences betweenthem. “thespots on a Dalmatian(斑点狗 )clonewi

24、ll be different,forexample, ”InsungHwang, head of Sooam Biotech, told The Guardian.Dog owners willalsohave to acceptthefactthatpersonalityisnot “clneable ”.Apart from genes, personality is also determined by upbringing and environment,whichare bothranoomelementsthatcloningtechnologiessimplycannotove

25、rcome,Professor Tom Kirkwood at Newcastle University, UK, told The Telegraph.Perhapsbringingourdogs back by cloningisnotthebestway to remember themafter all. Kirkwood, a dog owner himself, pointed out,“An important aspect of ourrelationship with them is coming to terms with the pain of letting go.28

26、. What service does Sooam Biotech Researcher Foundation offer?A.Makingcopiesofpetdogs.B.GivingpetdogsidenticaltwinsC. Helping dogs give birth to more puppiesD. Helping dog owners love their dogs more29. Which order is correct in the dog cloning process? a. An egg is taken from another dogb.a skin ce

27、ll is taken from the pet dogc. The egg grows into a puppy in two monthsd.The egg is placed in the womb of a female doge. The DNA in the egg is replaced by the DNA from the skin cell.。3欢迎下载精品文档A. a-d-b-e-cB. a-e-b-d-cC. b-a-d-e-cD. b-a-c-d-c30. What can we learn about dog clonign from the passage? A.

28、 it has not been put into practice until recentlyB. it is very popular among US and UK pet ownerC. it might not give the owners an exactly same dog.D. it is very expensive and usually takes half a year to complete.31. What does Kirkwood think of dog cloning?A. He disagrees with itB. He supports itC.

29、 He is courious about itD. He thinks it unbelievableDAre you a procrastinator(拖拉者 ) ？ It s a commonproblem.And itcan be harmful,as previous research has shownthat people who procrastinate have higher levels ofstressand lowerwell-being,reportedthe AsoociationforpsychologicalScienceinthe US. But a new

30、 study has found a way to deal with problem: Be more connected toyour future self.Psychologiststhinkthateach person believethattheyare reallytwo people:“Present Me ”and“Future Me ”. “people act as if they perfer their current selvesneeds and desires to those of their future selves,”wrote pyschologis

31、tsNeil Lewisand Daphna Oyserman.Oyserman and Lewis decided to try to find a way to make“Present Me ”imagineexactly how“Future Me ”would feel the night before a big paper was due, though“Present Me ”hadn tstarted yet. They made“Present Me ”think about a far-off eventas a number of days away, not mont

32、hs or years.Thinkingabout eventsin thisway meant thatsomethinglikea friends weddingseemed 16.3 days soonerwhen considered in daysrather than months and 11.4 monthssooner when considered in months rather than years.The researchersalsotriedto findout whetherpeoplewould take actionsoonerif they were to

33、ld a certain event was happening in X days rather than years. Forexample , participants imagined they had a newborn child, and that the child wouldneed to go to college in either 18 years or 6570 days. The researchers found thosein the“days”condition planned to start saving four times sooner than th

34、ose inthe “years ”condition.So ifyou think of yourlife in days instead ofyears, you may get things donequicker.32. What did Oyserman and Lewis intend to do through their study？A. To work on a solution to test if someone is a procrastinator.B. To find out whether human beings usually have two differe

35、nt charactersC.To discoverprocrastinatorsare more likelyto have a lower sense of well-beingD. To prove its helpful to connect our current selves more with future selves.33. The underlined part“this way”in paragraph 4 refers to“”A. settingup tough deadlinesB.followingschedulesstrictlyC.countinginsmal

36、ler units of timeD.imagining how your future self will feel34. What helps prevent people from procrastinating? A. Comparing their future selves with present selves。4欢迎下载精品文档B. Considering their current selvesnees and desires.C.Thinking about far-off events in days rather than yearsD.Marking importan

37、t events on a calendar as a reminder35. What does the passage mainly talk about? A. A way to get things done in time.B.The harmful effects of procrastinatingC.The reason to overlook future needs and desires D.The way to reduce stress and improve happiness第二节（共五小题，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够填入

38、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。If youre a gamer who sconstantly glued to your phone, it could be time to askfor medical help.On June 18, 2018, the World HealthOrganization(WHO)officiallylisted“gainingdisorder”as a mental health condition _36.“Videogamingislikeanon-financialkindofgambiling( 赌 博 )fr

39、omapsychological poingt of view,”Mark Griffiths, a professor from Nottingham TrentUniversity in the UK, told the Associated Press(AP).”Gamblers use money as a wayof keeping score, while gamers use points.”_37.“people need to understand this doesntmean every child who spends hours intheir room playin

40、g games is an addict, otherwise doctors are going to be floodedwith requests for help,”Joan Harvey, a spokeswoman for the British PaychologicalSociety, told AP._38 For example, a 21-yearold Chinese woman surnamed Wu in Guangdongrovince went blind in one eye after playing the mobile game King of Glor

41、y for a whole day. On days when I have no work, I usually get up at 6am, eat breakfast and playuntil 4pm,“she told the South China Morning Post. Then Illeat something, have anap( 小睡 ) and play until 1 am.”Wu isn talone. According to a study published by China Youth Daily, about oneinfiveyoung Chines

42、e peope playonlinevideogames foratleastfourto fivehoursperday. _39 In April, theMinistry of Education issued a notice askingChinese schools and parents to prevent students from becoming addicted to the Internet and game.Other countrieshave alsotaken action._40 Meanwhile, in Japan, some mobilephones

43、have a special mode for children thatlets their parents controlwhat gamesthey can download and how long they can play.A. This means it snow on the same list as other mental illnessesB. Thankfully, meansures have been taken to deal with the problem.C. We often see people around us playing games on th

44、eir mobile phonesD. In South Korea, children are forbidden to play video games after midnight.E. WHOsmain work is to improve the mental health of individuals and societyF.But ifyou lose controlover your gaming habits,you ll face seriousproblems.第三部分 语言只是运用（共两节，满分45 分）。5欢迎下载精品文档第一节 完形填空（共 20小题，每小题 1.

45、5分，满分30 分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A,B, C和 D 四个选项中，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。It was a cold and dark winter night. A town, in Wenchuan County, one of theworst 41_areas intheMay 12 earthquake,2008,was extremelyquietexcept thatthesound of42_ came out ofa small house. Thiswas notan ordinaryhouse 43_a community

46、KTV set up by a young man in late September.Ever since its opening, it has become a place for local people to heal their44_.From sentimental( 伤感的 ) love songs tohappy pop songs,singinghas becomepart of the long an d hard process of easing people back to a 45_life.The young man still remember the KTV

47、searly days. The room were46_ on theopening day and many people chose to 47_the whole night. In the following fourmonths,theKTV has 48_nearlyallthelocalpeopleandthosefromnearby49_shelters. Manhy couldnthelp50 _as they sang their favorite songs.The young man may not have known their names, but he51 _

48、their sorrow andrelief. He remembers one young woman who 52_ many times with her friends. Whenshe first visited, she sat alone in the corner without saying a word, staying53_all night. She finally chose a heartbreaking love song, Be Your Lover, andher cheeks were _54_in tears as she sang.Later, he learned that the woman was in great 55_because of her husbandsdeath. The yojng woman would regularly visit the KTV and sing the same love song.Every time she cried 56_.“But recently, I saw57_of her and on the last two occasions she didntsingthe58_song, “he recalles,”Ihope t