四川省成都名校新课标高三最新英语模拟(二)

1、成都名校高三模拟测试之二 英 语 第-部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分40分）第-节 单项填空（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）1. In theUnited States,Obama has been elected _ President of _ America again.A. the; 不填B.不填; theC. a; theD. 不填；不填2. Yes, _ is difficult to find a job nowadays, but _ is more difficult is trying to find such a job with a high salary bu

2、t few things to do.A. it, it B. what, what C. it, what D. what, it3. _ with any common sense is able to make the appropriate decision and do whatever suits the occasion best.A. Those who B. Whoever C. Anyone D. Who ever4. With the approach of the Christmas, every corner of the city _ a festival air.

3、A. took on B. put up C. turned out D. came up with5.The two students answers are exactly the same one of them _ from the other.A. shall copy B. must have copiedC. ought to copyD. may have copied6. Seeing the teacher raising her finger to her lips as _ for silence, all the students sat down in a stan

4、dard _ A. a gesture; situation B. a mark; pose C. a sign; position D. a symbol; condition7. The boss insisted that every minute _ made full use of _ the work well.A. be, to doB. was, doing C. be, doing D. was, to do8. Hearing the news, he rushed out, _ the book _ on the table and disappeared into th

5、e distance. A. left; lain open B. leaving; lying openC. leaving; lie openedD. left; lay opened9. _ I know the money is safe, I shall not worry about it. A. Even thoughB. UnlessC. As long asD. while10. The sights of Chengdu never fail to _ foreign tourists, making them abandon themselves to the beaut

6、y of the city. A. impressB. inform C. convince D. addict第二节 完形填空(共20小题；每小题l.5分，满分30分)阅读下面短文，掌握其大意。然后从各题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项。I walked into the grocery store not particularly interested in buying something. The sorrow of 11 my husband of 37 years was still too painful. And this grocery store held so many s

7、weet 12 . Bob often came with me and almost every time hed 13 to go off and look for something special. Id always see him walking down the walkway 14 the three yellow roses in his hands. Bob knew I loved yellow roses. With a heart 15 with pain, I came to the meat shelf, I searched for the 16 small s

8、teak and remembered how Bob had loved his steak. Suddenly a woman came beside me. She was in a soft green dress. I 17 as she picked up a large pack of T-bones, 18 them in her basket, hesitated, and then put them back. She saw me watching her and she smiled. My husband loves T-bones, but 19 , at thes

9、e prices, I dont know. My husband passed away eight days ago, I told her. Buy him the steaks. And value every 20 you have together. She smiled and I saw the feeling in her 21 as she placed the package in her basket and 22 away. I turned and pushed my cart forward too. Several minutes later I saw fir

10、st the green suit and then 23 the pretty lady coming to me. In her arms she carried something. On her face was the 24 smile I had ever seen. As she came closer, I saw what she held and 25 welled down. These are for you, she said and placed three beautiful yellow roses in my arms. She placed a gentle

11、 kiss on my cheek, then smiled again. I wanted to tell her what the roses 26 , but still unable to speak. I watched as she walked away as tears clouded my 27 . I looked down at the beautiful roses and found it almost 28 . How did she know? Suddenly the 29 seemed so clear. I wasnt alone. Oh, Bob, you

12、 havent 30 me, have you? I whispered, with tears in my eyes. He was still with me, and she was his angel.11. A. losing B. leaving C. passing D. failing12. A. flowers B. roses C. memories D. thoughts13. A. decide B. happen C. refuse D. pretend14. A. by B. with C. during D. between15. A. full B. fille

13、d C. pleased D. crowded16. A. very B. beautiful C. pretty D. perfect17. A. watched B. saw C. found D. glared18. A. fell B. carried C. dropped D. took19. A. exactly B. generally C. usually D. honestly20. A. moment B. dinner C. time D. year21. A. hands B. eyes C. voice D. basket22. A. left B. ran C. s

14、lipped D. wheeled23. A. realized B. recognized C. received D. thought24. A. saddest B. funniest C. brightest D. strangest25. A. words B. tears C. feelings D. sweats26. A. stood B. described C. meant D. designed27. A. sight B. cart C. roses D. package28. A. unknown B. uncommon C. unreal D. unlike29.

15、A. question B. answer C. case D. puzzle30. A. missed B. disappointed C. hated D. forgotten第=部分 阅读理解 (共20小题, 每小题2分, 满分40分)阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A, B, C, D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑，（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）AFor many of us, printed books are satisfying in ways beyond the words they contain Billions of printed books ha

16、ve been published, read and saved in the 600 years since movable type was invented, so why mess with a good things? Sony Electronics is doing just that, betting that readers will be won over by the convenience of readability of its new electronic book devices Sonys reader, the PRS-505, can hold 160

17、books in its fixed memory, enough to line the shelves on a good-sized wall in the average American home The $299 device is about the size of a paperback book, but a half-inch thick and weighs less than a pound The Sony book reader is revolutionary not only in its storage capacity The font（字体） is hig

18、hly readable and adjustable by size Unlike laptop computers, you can put the Sony in your purse, read it in direct sunlight and even bookmark the pages And you can connect it to your PC to download booksSurprisingly, though the reader has liberated the book from paper, electronic books arent always

19、a bargain For example, David Baldaccis Stone Cold download retails（零售） for $1519 at the Sony site, while Amazon（卓越网） will deliver a hard copy to your mailbox for $1619 The Sony reader also lets you store and play or display music So whats not to like about the Sony? Well, for many bibliophiles, a lo

20、t Book lovers like to have, hold and keep their volumes, which dont need charging You can write notes in the margins, and enjoy the ambience they provide on your book shelvesThe need for electronic reading devices is likely to grow as more people worried about the billions of tons of paper used for

21、printed material Many believe the time will come when devices like the Sony reader are as common as printed newspapers and magazines today 31According to the passage, the Sony book reader _A is as light as a laptop computer B can hold more than 200 booksC is convenient to carry aroundD cannot be con

22、nected to a PC32What is the authors point when he mentions “Stone Cold”?A Amazons printed books are very cheapB “Stone Cold” can be got from the Sony site and AmazonC The Sony book reader is not very cheap to useD The Sony book reader can benefit its buyers a lot33The underlined word “bibliophiles”

23、in Paragraph 5 refers to “_”A music loversB book loversC electronic reading devicesD Sony readers34According to the author, whats the future for the electronic reading devices?A Theyll replace printed newspapers and magazinesB Theyll still be more expensive than printed newspapersC Theyll become a m

24、ust in peoples daily lifeD Theyll become more popular as time goes onBAs kids, my friends and I spent a lot of time out in the woods “The woods” was our part-time address, destination, purpose, and excuse If I went to a friends house and found him not at home, his mother might say, “Oh, hes out in t

25、he woods, ” with a tone（语气） of airy acceptance It is similar to the tone people sometimes use nowadays to tell me that someone Im looking for is on the golf course or at the gym, or even “away from his desk” For us ten-year-olds, “being out in the woods” was just an excuse to do whatever we feel lik

26、e for a whileWe sometimes told ourselves that what we were doing in the woods was exploring（探索） Exploring was a more popular idea back then than it is today History seemed to be mostly about explorers Our explorations, though, seemed to have less system than the historic kind: something usually came

27、 up along the way Say we stayed in the woods, throwing rocks, shooting frogs, picking blackberries, digging in what we were briefly persuaded was an Indian burial moundOften we got “lost” and had to climb a tree to find out where we were If you read a story in which someone does that successfully, b

28、e skeptical: the topmost branches are usually too skinny to hold weight, and we could never climb high enough to see anything except other trees There were four or five trees that we visited regularlytall beeches, easy to climb and comfortable to sit inIt was in a tree, too, that our days of fooling

29、 around in the woods came to an end By then some of us had reached seventh grade and had begun the rough ride of adolescence（青春期） In March, the month when we usually took to the woods again after winter, two friends and I set out to go exploring We climbed a tree, and all of a sudden it occurred to

30、all three of us at the same time that we really were rather big to be up in a tree Soon there would be the spring dances on Friday evenings in the high school cafeteria35The author and his friends were often out in the woods to _ A spend their free timeB play golf and other sports C avoid doing thei

31、r schoolworkD keep away from their parents36 What can we infer from Paragraph 2 ? A The activities in the woods were well planned B Human history is not the result of exploration C Exploration should be a systematic activity D The author explored in the woods aimlessly37The underlined word “skeptica

32、l” in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to _A calm B doubtfu C serious D optimistic38. How does the author feel about his childhood? A Happy but short B Lonely but memorable C Boring and meaningless D Long and unforgettableCMadam,Just over six months ago, I saw an advertisement in the Morning Mail f

33、or a set of the complete works of William Shakespeare. Your company, Cosmo books Ltd., offered this set (eight books of plays and two books of poetry) at what was claimed to be a remarkable price: fifteen pounds and fifty pence, including postage and packing. I had wanted a set of Shakespeares plays

34、 and poems for some time, and these books, in red imitation leather, looked particularly attractive; so I sent for them.Two weeks later, the books arrived, together with a set of the complete works of Charles Dickens which I had not ordered. So I returned the Dickens books to you, with a cheque for

35、fifteen pounds and fifty pence for the works of Shakespeare. Two more weeks passed. Then there arrived on my door step a second set of the works of Shakespeare, the same set of novels by Dickens and a six book set of the plays of Moliere, in French. Since I do not read French, these were of no use t

36、o me at all. However, I could not afford to post all these books back to you, so I wrote to you at the end of August of last year, instructing you to come and collect all the books that I did not want, and asking you not to send any other books until further notice.You did not reply to that letter.

37、Instead you sent me a bill for forty two pounds, and a set of the plays of Schiller, in German. Since then, a new set of books has arrived every two weeks, the works of Goethe, the poems of Milton, the plays of Strindberg; I hardly know what I have. The books are still all in their boxes, in the gar

38、age, and my car has to stand in the rain outside.I have no room for any more books, and even if I read from now until the Last Judgment, I should not finish reading all the books that you have sent me.Please send no more books, send no more bills, send no more angry letters demanding payment. Just s

39、end one large lorry and take all the books away, leaving me only with the one set of the complete works of Shakespeare for which I have paid. Yours faithfully, SIMON WALKER39. Simon Walker wrote the letter to _ A. show his anger to Cosmo Books Ltd. B. complain about getting books he didnt want. C. a

40、dvise readers not to order books from Cosmo Books Ltd. D. urge for the final solution to the problem with the unwanted books. 40. The advertisement that Mr. Walker saw in the Morning Mail was for _ A. unlimited number of Cosmo Books. B. a set of 10 books of the works of Shakespeare. C. fifteen pound

41、s and fifty pence. D. a book containing all the plays and poems of Shakespeare.41. It can be inferred that _ A. Cosmo Books have sent bills for books that they have not sent. B. Mr. Walker took some action after receiving the books he did not order. C. Mr. Walker hasnt received the books that he ord

42、ered. D. Several sets of books have been sent to Mr. Walker free of charge.42. The tone of the letter is that of _ A. bitterness B. respect C. annoyance D. humorDAbout 200 people who thought their only experience of the London 2012 Olympic Games would be minor heats of synchronized swimming （花样游泳） h

43、ave received an unexpected change to the mens 100m final because of an embarrassing ticketing mistake.The London 2012 Organizing Committee （Locog） confirmed on Wednesday that an error in its ticket selling had led to four synchronized swimming competitions being oversold by 10, 000 tickets.Locog and

44、 its ticket agent spent the Christmas period contacting ticket holders and offering them alternatives that included the tickets they had applied for but unsuccessful. The changes need no additional cost. It has also offered to return any discrepancy（差额） if the new tickets cost less than the original

45、s. Locog said the replacement tickets would come from a number of unsold seats across the Olympic Games and that it was doing all it could to make up the error to the fans who bought tickets.Locog said the error occurred in the summer, between the first and second round of ticket sales, when a membe

46、r of staff made a mistake, entering “20,000” into the computer rather than the correct figure of 10,000 remaining tickets. The error was discovered when Locog checked the number of tickets that had been sold against the final seating numbers, and began contacting ticket holders before Christmas.Thou

47、sands of ticket holders have already struck lucky, changing to tickets for major events including swimming and athletics finals, and in around 200 cases the hottest of all, the mens 100m final. Locog said the decision to award 100m final tickets was made because one of the synchronized swimming comp

48、etitions was on the same afternoon as the event, August 5.43.Due to the ticketing mistake, about 200 people _.A. will luckily be able to watch the mens 100m finalB. will not enjoy the synchronized swimming eventsC. will have to change their tickets to other gamesD. have applied for tickets to the me

49、ns 100m final44. In order to solve the problem, the Locog _.A. required the holders to return the ticketsB. allowed the holders to apply for another ticketC. would charge the discrepancy for changing the ticketsD. offered to change the tickets without any extra cost45. The underlined word “it” (Para

50、graph 3 ) refers to _.A. Locog B. the ticketing mistakeC. the Olympic Games D. the additional cost46. How many ticket holders will have to change their tickets?A. 200. B. 10,000. C. 20,000. D. 30,000.EFor high school leavers starting out in the working world, it is very important to learn particular

51、 skills and practice how to behave in an interview or how to find all internship（实习）. In some countries, schools have programs to help students onto the path to work. In the United States, however, such programs are still few and far between. Research shows that if high schools provide career-relate

52、d courses, students are likely to get higher earnings in later years. The students are more likely to stay in school, graduate and go on to higher education. In Germany, students as young as 13 and 14 are expected to do internships. German companies work with schools to make sure that young people g

53、et the education they need for future employment. But in America, education reform programs focus on how well students do in exams instead of bringing them into contact with the working world. Harvard Education school professor Robert Schwartz has criticized education reformers for trying to place a

54、ll graduates directly on the four-year college track. Schwartz argued that this approach leaves the countrys most vulnerable（易受影响的）kids with no jobs and no skills. Schwartz believed that the best career programs encourage kids to go for higher education while also teaching them valuable practical sk

55、ills at high school. James Madison High School in New York, for example, encourages students to choose classes on career-based courses. The school then helps them gain on-the-job experience in those fields while theyre still at high school. However, even for teens whose schools encourage them to connect with work, the job market is daunting (使人气馁的). In the US, unemployment rates for 16-to-19-yea