【高考模拟】湖北省九师联盟高考英语质检试卷（2月份）答案与祥细解析

1、试卷第 =page 14 14页，总 =sectionpages 14 14页试卷第 =page 13 13页，总 =sectionpages 14 14页湖北省九师联盟高考英语质检试卷（2月份）第二部分 阅读（共两节，满分37.5分）第一节（共4小题；每小题2. 5分，满分37. 5分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。1. Spring Festival is traditionally a family holiday, but there are plenty of ways for travellers to celebrate Chinese New

2、Year, which falls on February 12, 2021.Watch a lion or dragon danceLionand dragon dances have been part of the festival since the Tang Dynasty. Closely related to kung fu,these dances demand strength and balance. Dragon dances are performed by a group of people who work together to bring the dragons

3、 powerful yet graceful movements to life. Look out for the final and also the most exciting part of the dance called cai qing which means picking the greens. Competing groups will battle each other very hard to get the red envelope hidden in the green vegetables.Eatand dress yourself up luckyLikeany

4、 festival in China,Chinese New Year is all about food. So prepare to eat yourself lucky. A whole fish is a popular choice. It means youll have plenty of riches. Likewise,dumplings are also a lucky dish because they are said to look like the ancient silver coins. For more good luck, wear red underwea

5、r. If you happen to have been born in the Year of the Cow,youd better wear them all year,as your ben ming nian is believed to be a year of bad luck. Also,on New Years Day,dont clean anythingeven yourself or youll be washing away the good luck.Travel smart and cheapGenerally speaking,it is best to av

6、oid travel in China at all during the busy Spring Festival period known as chunyun. But if you fly on New Years Day,when offices are closed and Chinese families stay together,it can be surprisingly cheap with few passengers, particularly on popular routes, such as Beijing to Shanghai. You should avo

7、id trying to head to major cities by public transport later than five days before or after New Years Day, when millions of urban workers make their way home or back to work. （1）Why do dance groups fight so hard at the end of the dance？_A. To prove their power.B. To show their kung fu.C. To get the r

8、ed envelope.D. To hide the lucky vegetables. （2）What is a bad thing to do on New Years Day？_A. Eating fish.B. Wearing red underwear.C. Making dumplings.D. Having a shower in the evening. （3）When can you buy very cheap flight tickets during chunyun in 2021？_A. On February 6.B. On February 8.C. On Feb

9、ruary 12.D. On February 18.2. Ithadnt been easy,but Elia Gonzalez had always managed to keep her family fed by stretching her husbands modest income as a cook at a restaurant in Puerto Rigs capital, San Juan. But that changed in midMarch, when those bars closed and her daughters school, where shed g

10、otten free breakfast and lunch, did too.ByApril 20, Elia and her husband had to skip meals to save food for their children. Still, by the end of April, all they could give their children was a bowl of rice with an egg mixed in.Hersons, 4 and 5yearolds, would ask for more. But her oldest daughter, An

11、gellia, a talkative kindergartener, tried to comfort her mother.Shesaid, Mama, Im still hungry, Elia said, but she told me it was OK because she was big and could wait until I got more food. That hit me hard.Astudy in 2015 found that 22 percent of adults reported skipping meals because they didnt ha

12、ve money for food in Puerto Rico. Now, the rate is much higher, said Jose CaraballoCueto,coauthor of the study. The unemployment rate has risen to 46 percent and the average saving rate here is zero. Theworsening food crisis has brought people in Puerto Rico closer. Christel Galindez, a community le

13、ader, has been picking up thirty cooked meals a day from a church near her home and delivering them to different families every day. Do you know when people are really in need? Christel asked. When you show up with a plate of food and they start to cry!During her daily food delivery run last Wednesd

14、ay, she drove up to Elias front door playing a birthday song through her cars speakers. Angellia rushed out with a big smile and started dancing to the music when Christel handed three containers of food and three cupcakes to her mother.Thank you so much. Today happened to be Angellias sixth birthda

15、y. But I had nothing in the kitchen, said Elia, who was struggling to hold back her tears. （1）Where had Elias daughter got her breakfast and lunch on her schooldays？_A. At home.B. At her fathers restaurant.C. At school.D. At a church in the neighborhood. （2）Why are Jose CaraballoCueto and his study

16、mentioned in paragraph 5？_A. To summarize the previous paragraphs.B. To provide answers to the problem.C. To add some background information.D. To introduce a new topic for discussion. （3）Why did Christel come to Elias house？_A. She was on her way to help those in need.B. She was sent by a church to

17、 deliver food.C. She came to celebrate Elias birthday.D. She made some cupcakes for the children. （4）What is the best title for the text？_A. Angellia， a Lovely GirlB. The Health Crisis in San JuanC. Crisis Can Bring People CloserD. Hunger Spreads Quickly in Puerto Rico3. ElonMusk isnt content with e

18、lectric cars, shooting people into orbit and populating Mars. He also wants to get inside your brain.Hisgoal is to develop devices that can provide treatment to neural（神经的）diseasesand that may one day be powerful enough to put humanity on an equal footing with possible future super intelligent compu

19、ters.Notthat its anywhere close to that yet.Inavideo Friday obviously aimed at seeking new employees, Musk showed off the second version of the Neuralink, a device about the size of a large coin. Its designed to be put in a persons head. An earlier version of the device has to be placed behind an ea

20、r like a huge hearing aid.Butthe young company is far from having a commercial product, which would involve complex human trials and governmental approval. Fridays video showed three pigs. One, named Gertrude, had a Neuralink device in its brain.Musk,a founder of both the electric car company Tesla

21、Motors and the spaceexploration firm SpaceX,has always been worried about that smarter AI machines will _ humans. His solution? Link our brains to computers so we can keep up with or even win over them in intelligence!Muskurged coders（程序员）,engineers and especially people who have actually created a

22、product to apply. You dont need to have brain experience, he said, adding that this is something that can be learned on the job.Connecting a brain up directly to electronics is not new. Doctors have already put similar devices in brains to treat such conditions as Parkinsons disease. In 2016, resear

23、chers reported that a man regained some movement in his own hand with a similar brain implant. But Musks proposal goes beyond this. Neuralink wants to build on those existing medical treatments and work on devices that could link our brains to computers one day. （1）What can we learn about the first

24、version of the Neuralink？_A. It is smaller than a hearing aid.B. It can be put in a persons head.C. It has to be placed behind the ear.D. It is already available at the market. （2）Which of the following can replace the underlined word outwit in paragraph 6？_A. Copy.B. Defeat.C. Understand.D. Destroy

25、. （3）What kind of candidates does Elon Musk particularly want？_A. Someone who also wants to create the same device.B. Doctors who already know how to treat brain diseases.C. People who have already designed some unique product.D. Engineers who are good at linking brains to computers. （4）Where is thi

26、s text likely from？_A .An advertisement.B. A test report.C. A science fiction.D. A news report.第二节（共1小题；每小题2. 5分，满分12. 5分）阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 Online security generally refers to keeping others from getting access to your online information. （1）_ . If you dont want to be target

27、ed， take the following steps for better protection.Use strong and unique passwords. It turns out that the steps to protect your security are more clearcut than you might think： use stronger passwords for your accounts.（2）_ . Dont use the same password for different websites.Download the latest secur

28、ity updates.（3）_ . Instead，you are more often attacked because of bugs（漏洞） that have been publicly reported， and that security updates have been published. If you do not download the updates on time， you do not get the benefit of the work of the security engineers.（4）_ Not all online attacks come th

29、rough software. Its common that youre tricked into handing over your passwords or personal information to bad actors. These attempts can happen via email， text message or phone call. And generally theyre trying to get your username and password， or perhaps your ID number. But there are often signs t

30、hat these messages are usually filled with spelling and grammar mistakes， or that the email is coming from a strange address. If it feels fishy， it might be fishing.Start small and take these steps now. Faced with this scary landscape， getting a complete hold on your digital security can feel challe

31、nging. （5）_ .A. Be aware of fishingB. Dont use 1234567890C. Keep passwords in different placesD. Dont read and reply those strange emailsE. It includes stealing the passwords of your online accountsF. But even such basic steps can make your accounts much more secureG. Usually， you are not attacked b

32、ecause of those problems that nobody knows about 第三部分 语言运用（共两节，满分15分）第一节（共1小题；每小题15分，满分15分）阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 Robin was 12 years old when his mother sent him to me for his first piano lesson. I preferred that students begin at an earlier （1）_ . I explained it to Robin that he w

33、as too old, but he said it had always been his mothers（2）_ to hear him play the piano. So I took him as a student.（3）_Robin tried very hard,he didnt seem to have the basic sense of music. However,he（4）_ and at the end of each lesson he never forgot to say,My moms going to hear me play someday. But i

34、t seemed impossible, and I was （5）_ by his slow progress. One day,he（6）_me that his mother was sick and he couldnt come to my class any longer. I was glad that he stopped coming, since he was really a bad advertisement for my teaching!Several months later when I was preparing my students for a music

35、 show,Robin came to my home and said he had to（7）_ the show. I dont know what led me to（8）_ him to do that. Maybe it was the （9）_ in his eyes or maybe it was something inside of me saying that it would be all right. I was even more（10）_ when Robin announced that he had chosen one of the most difficu

36、lt pieces of Mozart. I was not prepared for what happened next.However,on the show his fingers danced（11）_ on the keys. He played so well that everyone（12）_excitedly when he was leaving the stage. In excitement,I （13）_ up to stage to congratulate him.Howcould you do it? I could not help asking him a

37、 few days later.Well,I kept practising at home. My mom had cancer and just passed away the day I went to your（14）_ to ask for your permission to take part in the show. It was the first time she could hear me play on the stage. I wanted to make it（15）_ . （1）A.levelB. convenienceC. ageD. moment （2）A.t

38、askB. planC. dreamD. hobby （3）A.UnlessB. BecauseC. UntilD. Although （4）A.actedB. continuedC. commandedD. proved （5）A.encouragedB. disappointedC. touchedD. guided （6）A.toldB. showedC. convincedD. promised （7）A.look forward toB. sign up forC. focus onD. learn from （8）A.warnB. persuadeC. allowD. force

39、（9）A.determinationB. happinessC. reflectionsD. anger （10）A.excitedB. satisfiedC. relievedD. surprised （11）A.gracefullyB. awkwardlyC. slowlyD. quickly （12）A.shookB. clappedC. dancedD. laughed （13）A.followedB. droveC. wokeD. ran （14）A.houseB. officeC. classD. stage （15）A.specialB. importantC. similarD

40、. popular第二节（共1小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。 Long， long ago， the King of the Skies had a lovely daughter，to（1）_ he made many careful plans for her future. However， the pretty princess fell in love（2）_ dancing. She would put on her shiny dress and dance her way into the night. Whi

41、le （3）_ （watch） her beauty， many a star fell for her.As the princess grew up， the King got more（4）_（worry）because he could not bear to see a princess dance for the common people. Finally， he asked the princess to make a（5）_（choose）：either marry the Rainbow Prince， settle down and give up dancing，（6）

42、_ be put into prison for life at the North Pole of the earth.The princess decided to dance. To this day，we can still catch her dancing in the northern hemisphere and see （7）_ （star） falling. Not many people have experienced her beauty， but those who have are changed forever.Those amazing light shows

43、 in（8）_ sky of the arctic regions occur（9）_（frequent） between September and October and then occur again between March and April. They can also（10）_ （see） sometimes in winter. 第四部分 写作（共两节，满分15分） 第一节（满分15分） 假定你是李华，临近高考，你的英国朋友Henry写信询问你的近况。请你给他回一封电子邮件，内容包括：1.感谢他的关心；2.介绍你的学习近况。注意：1.写作词数应为80左右；2.可以适当增加细

44、节，以使行文连贯。 第二节（满分25分） 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。One day， when 1 was walking through the empty street in Stanislau， California， I saw an old man stand in front of a little house. He invited me in. In the house，I saw a bright rug（小地毯）on the clean floor. Pictures hung all around the room. On

45、the little tables there were books and vases full of flowers.The pleasure I felt in my heart must have shown on my face.Yes， he smiled， it is all her work. Everything in this room has the touch of her hands. She is nineteen. We were married just six months ago. Youll see her tonight!Where is she now

46、？ I asked.Oh， she went to visit her parents， the man sighed. They live forty miles from here. She has been away for two weeks and she will be back soon.The man told me his name was Henry. Then we talked about many different things， but mainly about her.In the evening， we had a visitor. He was a grey

47、haired gold miner named Tom. I just came for a few minutes to ask when she is coming home， he explained. Is there any news？Oh yes. I got a letter. Would you like to hear it？ the old man replied， taking a yellowed letter out of his pocket and started reading to us.It was full of loving messages to hi

48、m and to other peopletheir close friends and neighbors. When the man finished， he looked at his friend. Oh， Tom! You always cry when I read a letter from her， Im going to tell her this time!No， you must not do that， Henry， Tom said. I am getting old. And any little sorrow makes me cry. I really hope

49、 she would be here tonight.Then he started to give Henry glasses of wine. When I reached for one， he stopped me. After Henry emptied the last glass， he got very drunk and fell fast asleep.His wife has been dead for nineteen years， Tom said， looking into my eyes.Dead？ I whispered.注意：1.续写词数应为150左右；2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。Tom explained that she went to see her parents after they got married. _Then Tom went to the old letter that Henry had just read to us._ 参考答案与试题解析 湖北省九师联盟高考英语质检试卷（2月份）第二部分 阅读（共两节，满分37.5分）第一节（共4小题；每小题2. 5分，满分37. 5分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的