湖北省枣阳市白水高中高三英语上学期模拟考试试题(14)

枣阳市白水高中2015届高三英语模拟试题（14）
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 does the woman mean?
A. She doesn’t like the music.
B. She is not good at dancing.
C. She always prefers walking to dancing.
2. How much of a discount did the woman get for her new coat?
A. 20%.
B. 30%.
C. 50%.
3. Who will pay for the bill?
A. The man.
B. T he woman.
C. Both of them.
4. Why did the man call the office?
A. To make an appointment.
B. To ask someone to repair his car.
C. To tell the doctor he'll be late.
5. What is the woman's opinion of the film?
A. Interesting.
B. Disappointing.
C. Better than she expected.
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. When did the woman last call Patti?
A. Last month.
B. Last week.
C. Yesterday.
7. What is the man's number?
A. 763-4565.
B. 736-4565.
C. 763-6545.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

8. What is the relationship between the speakers?
A. Teacher and student.
B. Boss and employee.
C. Colleagues.
9. Where does the man say he is coming from?
A. His home.
B. The hospital.
C. His office.
10. What does the woman think of what the man said?
A. She is doubtful.
B. She is delighted.
C. She feels sorry for the man. 听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

11. Where will the speakers have coffee?
A. In the dining hall.
B. In their room.
C. At the cafeteria.
12. How will they go to the airport?
A. The hotel will arrange a taxi for them.
B. They will call a taxi themselves.
C. Their friend will take them to the airport.
13. When will they get up the next morning?
A. At 6:00.
B. At 6:30.
C. At 8:00.
听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。

14. Where did the woman just go?
A. A salon.
B. The man's home.
C. The doctor's.
15. What does the woman think of the man's clothes?
A. They are in style.
B. They are out of fashion.
C. They are too cheap.
16. What does the man think about one's appearance?
A. One should be true to himself.
B. Appearance is the most important thing.
C. You can judge a person by his appearance.
17. What will the woman do next?
A. Go shopping with the man.
B. Work out in a gym.
C. Buy some pills. 听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. When will the space possibly become a popular place to go on vacation?
A. By 2020.
B. By 2017.
C. By 2016.
19. What do we know about the space holiday center?
A. It will look like a bicycle.
B. It will be completed by 2016.
C. It will offer short trips to the moon.
20. What will the Lunar Hotel be like?
A. The hotel will be above ground.
B. The rooms will look like normal rooms.
C. There will be a lot of water.
第二部分：词汇知识运用（共两节，满分40分）
第一节：多项选择（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
从A、B、C、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。

21. Due to the unreasonable individual income _____, the gap between the rich and
poor has become an outstanding issue.
A. accommodation
B. association
C. distribution
D. contribution
22. After putting on these specially designed clothes, you can walk into your own
home, without a chance of _____ even by your loved ones.
A. attempt
B. credit
C. effect
D. recognition
23. AH this was used to _____ what percentage of time people spent in an unpleasant state.
A. accumulate
B. calculate
C. accelerate
D.
circulate
24. This school gives most of the children hope for the future by providing them with
a chance to _____ knowledge.
A. require
B. achieve
C. acquire
D. discover
25. Of the estimated 42 million homeless people around the world, children again _____ one third.
A. make up
B. take up
C. build up
D. turn up
26. If I had known my life was going to _____ like this, I would have let them kill me.
A. find out
B. turn out
C. give out
D. work out
27. As oil is running out on the earth, we are in need of searching for other _____ energy resources.
A. alternative
B. abundant
C. creative
D. automatic
28. Mark is such a(n) __ salesman that he can manage to complete the whole year's
marketing program within only six months.
A. ridiculous
B. appropriate
C. optimistic
D. aggressive
29. Since there is _____ an expanding market for mystery novels, all publishers will
want to increase the number of mystery novels they publish.
A. eventually
B. faithfully
C. apparently
D. conventionally
30. Drink your tea, and take your breath, and stop your laughing: laughter is sadly
_____ under this roof, and in your condition!
A. out of control
B. out of place
C. out of practice
D. out of question
第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（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。

Professor Mihaly, from the University of Chicago, has interviewed thousands of people who have a happy life to find out how they do it. ‘I've been studying 31 for over 30 years,’ says Mihaly. ‘My 32 in the subject came from my own experience as a child during World War II, when I saw many adults 33 by the terrible events. But there were always a few who 34 their courage, helped others, and were able to give a sense of 35 and meaning to their lives. I wanted to find out how a person could 36 a fulfilling and enjoyable life.’
In general, his research showed that people were unhappy doing 37 . The professor stresses that happy people don’t 38 time, either at w ork or when they’re 39 . ‘Many people 40 that the time they spend at work or at school is wasted. But often their free time is also wasted. Many people are used to doing 41 things —watching television, for example —without using any skills. 42 , life goes past in a series of boring experiences.’
But it doesn't have to be this way. The professor has found that people are 43 when they get into something he calls ‘flow’. When people get involved in a task that they have chosen, and which is well-defined and challenging, they 44 ‘flow’，a state where they don't notice time passing.
They also experience enjoyment. Professor Mihaly makes a contrast 45 enjoyment and pleasure. ‘I used to think they were the same thing —but they’re not! 46 is a big bowl of ice cream, or taking a hot bath on a cold day — nothing bad at all! But enjoyment is about doing something and 47 something. It isn’t really important what we do, but it’s more important to do something, feel 48 about it, and try to do it well.
People who are not used to happiness can 49 how to be happy, says the professor, if they constantly get into ‘flow’ 50 . Is happiness as easy as that? Perhaps it is.
31. A. life B. happiness C. war D. courage
32. A. interest B. addiction C. opinion D. dream
33. A. released B. protested C. destroyed D. moved
34. A. lost B. kept C. missed D. forgot
35. A. humor B. security C. question D. purpose
36. A. send B. build C. share D. afford
37. A. everything B. anything C. nothing D. something
38. A. take B. make C. spend D. waste
39. A. free B. comfortable C. excited D. busy
40. A. show B. indicate C. feel D. understand
41. A. passive B. negative C. active D. sensitive
42. A. However B. As a result C. What's more D. Therefore
43. A. painful B. puzzled C. happy D. cautious
44. A. test B. choose C. experience D. practice
45. A. between B. before C. among D. besides
46. A. Comfort B. Happiness C. Pleasure D. Excitement
47. A. making B. achieving C. finishing D. forgetting
48. A. sensible B. sorry C. pitiful D. positive
49. A. learn B. follow C. beat D. obtain
50. A. movements B. states C. standards D. periods
第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下列短文，从每篇短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

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Ellen MacArthur started sailing when she was eight, going out on sailing trips with her aunt. She loved it so much that she saved her money for three years to buy her first small sailing boat. When she was 18, she sailed alone around Britain and won the ‘Young Sailor of the Year’ award.
But Ellen really became famous in 2001. Aged only 24, she was one of only two women who entered the Vendee Globe round the world solo race, which lasts 100 days. Despite many problems, she came second in the race out of 24 competitors and she was given a heroine's welcome when she returned.
Ambition and determination have always been a big part of Ellen's personality. When she was younger, she lived in a kind of hut for three years while she was trying to get sponsorship to compete in a transatlantic race. Then she took a one-way ticket to France, bought a tiny seven metre Classe Mini yacht, slept under it while she was
repairing it, and then she raced it 4,000 kilometres across the Atlantic in 1997, alone for 33 days.
Ellen has had to learn many things, because sailing single-handed means that she has to be her own captain, electrician, sailmaker, engineer, doctor, journalist, cameraman and cook. She also has to be very fit, and because of the dangers of sleeping for long periods of time when she’s in the middle of the ocean, she has trained herself to sleep for about 20 minutes a time.
And she needs courage. Once, in the middle of the ocean, she had to climb the mast of her boat to repair the sails — at four o'clock in the morning, and with 100 kph winds blowing around her. It took her many hours to make the repairs; Ellen says: ‘I was exhausted when I came down. It's hard to describe how it feels to be up there. It's like trying to hold onto a big pole, which for me is just too big to get my arms around, with someone kicking you all the time and trying to shake you off.’But in her diary, Ellen also describ e moments which make it all worthwhile: ‘A beautiful sunrise started the day, with black clouds slowly lit by the bright yellow sun. I have a very strong feeling of pleasure, being out here on the ocean and having the chance to live this. I just feel lucky to be here.’
51. E llen bought her first sailing boat _______ .
A. soon after going out sailing trips with her aunt
B. when she was about eleven
C. when she won the ‘Young Sailor of the Year’ award
D. when she was able to sail alone
52. E llen lived in a hut for three years because _______ .
A. she was training herself to be physically strong enough
B. she enjoyed a simple way of life
C. she wanted to show people her personality
D. she wanted to save enough money to compete in a race
53. W hy does she only sleep for about twenty minutes at a time?
A. Because she can’t sleep long alone.
B. Because she was not fit enough to sleep longer.
C. Because she had a problem in sleeping.
D. Because dangers might occur while she was asleep.
54. F rom the passage, we can infer that _______ .
A. Ellen learned a lot from her aunt
B. Ellen could cook very well
C. Ellen enjoyed the life on the sea
D. Ellen repaired the sails by herself
B
Lionel Messi became a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in March 2010. What does that mean, you ask? Read and find out!
In the 1950s, the United Nations had an idea: Why not use celebrities to help promote children's rights? So they created the idea of UNICEF (the UN children's fund) ambassadors. Ever since then, hundreds of sports, music and film stars have been seen spreading the word for the international peace organization at photo calls all over the world.
A lot of stars are brought in independently by the various UN agencies. The UN Development Programme uses Ronaldo, the Brazilian footballer, to draw people's attention to poor children. And the refugee (难民)agency UNHCR uses Angelina Jolie to focus on people made homeless because of war. These days, Angelina is probably as famous for her humanitarian work as she is for her acting!
But perhaps the agency most represented by the stars is UNICEF. There are lots of stars who are Goodwill Ambassadors for UNICEF: for example, footballer David Beckham, singer Shakira and actor Susan Sarandon. There are also celebrities used to promote one-off projects every now and then: pop singer Robbie Williams has given several concerts for UNICEF even though he isn't Goodwill Ambassador. The UN has got offices in more than 200 countries, so of course it's important that they are represented by an international mix of celebrities. And some of their most important stars, like West African singer, Angelique Kidjo, aren't exactly household names in many parts of the world.
They have to be very careful to choose the right people. UNICEF looks for celebrities who haven't just made it big, but who are also probably going to stay famous for quite a few years to come. ‘We can't have someone who has just enjoyed success for a few minutes and then disappeared. ’ a spokeswoman said. In the same way, the star has to want to do more than just look caring in front of the camera. ‘Our celebrities do it because they really care about children,’ says the spokeswoman. ‘They should have the power to draw the cameras but without wanting the attention for themselves.’
So, now you know — that's what Goodwill Ambassadors do!
55. _________________________________________ UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador is
intended for _______ .
A. people who help poor children around the world
B. footballers who can play as well as Messi
C. celebrities who spread the name of UNICEF worldwide
D. celebrities who care about children's rights
56. ____________________________ Angelina Jolie is famous for _______ .
A. being an ambassador of UNICEF
B. drawing people’s attention to poor children
C. raising money for good causes
D. performing well in many films
57. _________________________________________________ A ngelique Kidjo is selected to represent UNICEF because _______ .
A. she is more famous than Susan Sarandon
B. she is a world-known singer
C. she is popular in West Africa
D. she did a lot to help poor children
58. ____________________________ UNICEF thinks Lionel Messi _______ .
A. is and will be a super star in the world
B. is a promising young footballer for the future
C. needs help from UNICEF
D. draws attention in front of the camera
C
At first it was only kings who were recognized as important enough to have a birthday celebration. To protect them, friends and family would visit the king and bring good thoughts and birthday wishes.
As time went by, children became included in birthday celebrations. The tradition of children's birthday parties first started in Germany.
One of the largest private birthday parties that ever happened was in 1970 for Colonel Harland Sanders' (the founder of KFC) 80th birthday — it was attended by over 35,000 people.
Many centuries ago, birthdays were considered a time when the bad spirits were able to harm you. It was believed that you should have your friends and family around you, so that their good wishes and present-giving would keep the bad spirits away. The custom of lighting candles also had a spiritual origin. People believed that the gods lived in the sky, and that by lighting candles and torches, people were sending a signal or prayer to the gods.
Later on, candles started to be used to decorate birthday cakes. One theory about the origin of the birthday cake is that it started with the Greeks, who baked round cakes representing the full moon for their moon goddess, Artemis. They also placed candles on the cake to make it glow, again like the moon.
However, the Germans are also credited with the first cakes and candles. They used a sweet cake and they put a large candle in the centre of the cake to represent ‘the light of life’.
The ‘Happy Birthday’ song is more than a hundred years old. The music was written in 1893 by two sisters, Patty and Mildred Hill, who were schoolteachers in Louisville, Kentucky. The music was originally a morning greeting to their students entitled ‘Good Morning To All’. In 1935 the words were copyrighted (that is, the words legally belonged to the Hill sisters), and copyright has been bought and sold in multi-million dollar deals ever since. The current copyright is owned by Warner Communications. They bought it in 1989 for more than $22 million.
‘Happy Birthday to You’ is recognized around the world and has been translated into many different languages. And children still love to make new versions of it.
59. Long ago people had friends and families with them on their birthdays in order to _______ .
A. get more presents
B. keep the bad spirits away
C. light the candles
D. celebrate the party together
60. The Greeks put candles on their cakes because they wanted to _______ .
A. see where the cakes were
B. make the cakes shine
C. know how old they were
D. make them look like the moon
61. Why did the Hill sisters first write their song?
A. To hold its copyright.
B. To help people sing songs in their birthday parties.
C. To say hello to their students in the morning.
D. To celebrate the school's birthday.
62. Which of the following statements is NOT a fact about birthday?
A. Kings were the first people to celebrate birthdays.
B. German children celebrated birthday parties first.
C. The ‘Happy Birthday’ song has got only two owners.
D. Children like to rewrite the ‘Happy Birthday’ song.
D
Juan Cabello takes pride in not using a mobile phone or the internet to communicate. Instead, he whistles.
Cabello, 50, is a silbador on tiny, mountainous La Gomera, one of Spain's Canary Islands off West Africa. Like his father and grandfather before him, he knows ‘Silbo Gomero’, a lang uage that is whistled, not spoken, and can be heard more than two miles away. This unusual way of communicating is said to have arrived with early African settlers 2,500 years ago. Now, educators are working hard to save it from extinction by making school children study the language up to the age of fourteen.
Silbo, which comes from the Spanish silbar (meaning to whistle), can be used to form more than 4,000 words. ‘I use it for everything: to talk to my wife, to tell my kids something, to find a friend if we get lost in a crowd.’ Cabello says. In fact, he makes a living from Silbo, performing daily exhibitions at a restaurant on this island of 220 square kilometres and 19,000 people.
People throughout La Gomera are known to have used Silbo in the past as a way of communicating over long distances. A strong whistle saved farmers from going over the hills to give messages or news to neighbors. Then came the phone. Nowadays, it's hard to know how many people still use Silbo. In 1999, it was introduced as a compulsory subject in La Gomera's primary schools, in an effort to prevent the language from becoming extinct. Now 3,000 students are studying it, but only a few people are believed to be able to communicate fully in the whistling language. ‘Silbo is said to be the most important cultural heritage we have.’ said Moises Plasencia, the director of the Canary Islands' government's historical heritage department.
It might seem appropriate for a language that sounds like birdsong to exist in the Canary Islands, but there is thought to be no connection between the island's name and the birdsong-like way of communicating. In fact, little is known about Silbo's origins. Silbo-like whistling has been found in parts of Greece, Turkey, China and Mexico, but none is as developed as Silbo Gomero. One study is looking for signs of Silbo in Venezuela, Cuba and Texas, all places to which Gomerans have emigrated in the past during hard economic times.
Now Plasencia is heading an effort to get UNESCO to declare it a ‘cultural her itage’ and to support efforts to save it. ‘Silbo is so unique, and it has many historical and linguistic values,’ he said. And, as Cabello explains, ‘It's good for just about anything except for romance: everyone on the island would hear what
you're saying!’
63. How did Silbo came into being on the island, La Gomera?
A. Taught to the local people by the Spanish.
B. Created by the islanders themselves.
C. Brought there with the early African settlers.
D. Learned from birds thousands of years ago.
64. ______________________________________________ Farmers in La Gomera used Silbo in the past because _______ .
A. they were too poor to afford phones.
B. they could communicate over long distances.
C. they couldn't speak any other language.
D. their fathers asked them to do so.
65. ________________________________________________________________ According to the passage, Silbo can possibly be found in other countries like _______ .
A. Spain
B. China
C. Greece
D. Cuba
66. ____________________________________ Moises Plasencia tried to save Silbo by _______ .
A. teaching young people how to use Silbo
B. leading an effort to ma ke Silbo a ‘cultural heritage’
C. finding more people who can speak Silbo well
D. telling romantic stories in Silbo
E
When Danny Wallace, 26, got bored, he put an ad on the worldwide web reading simply: ‘Join Me. Send a passport photo.’ A year and a h alf later his east London flat is the headquarters for a global internet-based ‘club’ whose members carry out good deeds for strangers every Friday.
It's not common for people in London to talk to strangers. If you see someone struggling with something, pa rt of the brain goes “I want to help”. But the trained part of the brain says：“They will think you are mad or going to mug them”, so you walk away.
Join Me now has about 3,000 members around the world who do an act of kindness every Friday. For example, I'm usually out on a Friday so I go for one of the standard acts — the unexpected cup of coffee. You might be sitting in a cafe and see an old
man in the corner drinking coffee or tea, and you walk up with another cup of whatever they are drinking , and say：“ I've bought you a coffee” and walk away. It's a pleasure to see the look of surprise on their faces. There can be some suspicion, but I think that was mostly in the early days when I didn't know how to do it properly. I would walk up quite nervously like I was doing something wrong and I didn't know when to leave. In the end, I learned through trial and error. Sometimes it worked, other times it didn't. I discovered that you have to walk up with confidence and humour and not “get in their faces”. You say: “This is for you”, then you go. It's hit-and-run kindness. And there is no point in doing it half-heartedly. You've got to do it because you really mean it.
Join Me is without geographical boundaries, but there are quite a few members in London, and such stories about things happen on the Underground or on the buses. One lady got on the bus and put a £10 note down and said：“That's for me and the next nine pe ople”. So at every stop, anyone who got on was told it was paid for. A lot of people were doing this sort of thing anyway. For them it's an excuse or reason to do something nice for a complete stranger, and it gives them the confidence to walk up and start chatting.
67. When Londoners see someone in trouble, they _______ .
A. often give a hand
B. stop and ask questions
C. pretend not seeing it
D. telephone the police
68. According to the passage, members of Join Me often _______ .
A. do an act of kindness every Friday
B. put an advertisement on the worldwide web
C. go out and make friends with strangers
D. buy coffees for the strangers
69. The underlined expression in the third paragraph possibly means _______ .
A. finding something very difficult
B. experimenting to get the right result
C. doing something without much effort
D. making a few mistakes
70. Which would be the best title for the passage?
A. History of Join Me
B. Danny Wallace and Join Me
C. Why not Join Me
D. Hit-and-run Kindness
第四部分：书面表达（共两节，满分50分）
第一节：完成句子（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）
阅读下列各小题，根据汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子，并将答案写在答题卡上的相应题号后。

71. All the students on the playground are looking up into the sky, with their eyes
__________________ the helicopter flying over their heads. (fix)
所有操场上的学生们都抬头望向天空，眼睛盯着正在头顶上飞过的直升飞机。

72. It is Tom as well as his two friends __________________the job. (apply)
已经申请了那个工作的是汤姆和他的两个朋友.
73. My aunt's house in the downtown is much smaller than ours, but it is __________________ . (as)
我姑姑在市中心的房子比我们的小得多，但是价格却是我们的两倍。

74. With our food and water supplies__________________, the only hope for us is to
walk out of the mountain as soon as possible. (run)
随着食物和水渐渐耗尽，我们唯一的希望就是尽快走出这座山。

75. Compare yourself now with__________________and try to exceed past achievements
so that you can make progress step by step. (be)
将现在的你与过去的你相比较，然后试图超越过去的成就，你就可以慢慢地进步了。

76. As a policeman, he has realized that __________________, drugs are always behind it. (violence)
作为一名警察，他意识到，在有暴力的地方，其后面总有毒品。

77. The young dancer is very thankful to her teacher, with the help__________________ her ambition. (achieve)
这位年轻的舞者很感激她的老师，在他的帮助下她实现了她的志向。

78. You can't imagine what difficulty a single mother had__________________a child on her own, especially
when she was laid off those days. (bring)
你无法想象，一个单身母亲独自抚养一个孩子有多难，尤其是在她下岗失业的时候。

79. The singer told his fans that not until he was recognized by the tutors in the
TV program, the Voice of China,__________________to continue his music dream.(decide)
这位歌手告诉歌迷，直到得到了“中国好声音”导师的认可，他才决定继续他的音乐梦想。

80. But for a serious injury which put him out of basketball,
Kobe__________________for Lakers last season. (play)
要不是受了重伤而告别篮球，上赛季科比本来能够为湖人打球的。

第二节: 短文写作（共1题；满分30分）
请你根据以下提示，并结合事例，用英语写一篇短文。

Many hands make light work. The partners we fully cooperate with can make us a successful team.
注意: ①无须写标题；
②除诗歌外，文体不限；
③内容必须结合你生活中的一个事例；
④文中不得透露个人姓名和学校名称；
⑤词数不少于120，如引用提示语则不计入总词数。