甘肃省天水一中2014届高三下学期第五次模拟考试英语试题Word版含答案

天水一中2013-2014学年2011级第五次模拟考试英语本试卷分为第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分，共8页。

满分120分，考试时间100分钟。

第I卷（满分70 分）第一部分阅读部分(共2节，满分40分)第一节阅读理解(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)阅读下列短文，从所给的A、B、C和D选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

ALife is full of sweet surprises for Chinese pop singer Edell.She majored in design in a Canadian college. But when she was looking for a job after graduation, she found herself rising as a star in singing. Then she became a hostess on TV. "These are roles I never expected to take," she said.Edell is open to every possibility in life, not afraid to try new things. She says that every day she tries to get herself ready to take any chance that occurs in life.“My mom told me chance only rewards those with a prepared mind,” she said. “So I’ve tried to explore my potential talents. Thus I won’t be at a loss when the right opportunity comes up.”Edell learned ballet in her childhood until she broke her back in practice. She then fell in love with music.Like many girls of her age, she has a rich collection of CDs. But she never dreamed of being a singer. One day she was noticed by a talent scout(星探). she gave a try and succeeded! And that’s not the end of the story.Once she was invited to be the hostess of the Asian MTV Awards in Thailand. Though she has never had any experience, she accepted the invitation. “At least I could make a trip to t he foreign country,” she said. Upon arrival at the ceremony, she had to read through a 91-page English biography of every guest. She studied it so much that she could recite all the details in it.It helped her greatly. She greeted those strange faces she had never seen before and talked with them like an old friend. She did a great job. The MTV channel was so satisfied that they offered her a job as a TV hostess.“Try to get yourself well-prepared in life,” she said. “In the meantime, try to live your l ife with brains.”1. What is the best title of the passage?A. Learn from EdellB. Prepare for your chancesC. Try to be a singerD. Do learn English well2. The writer mentioned Edell's mother to tell us_____________.A. her chances were given by her motherB. her mother had great influence on herC. she could do nothing without her motherD. all her success belonged to her mother3. What does the underline word "It" refer to?A. Studying the English biography hard.B. The 91-page English biography.C. The ceremony of the Asian MTV Awards.D. The MTV channel.4. What is Edell's strongest character?A. Liking to remember things.B. Liking to help others.C. Liking to think of problems differently.D. Liking to try new things.BAs you grow rapidly through your teenage years you will experience a lot of changes.The changes may seem monumental and they may seem to happe n quickly. Don’t panic! You will deal successfully with this time! The changes may seem difficult and your new-found responsibilities may seem daunting(令人畏惧的) but you’re not alone. Everyone that you’ve grown up with is going through the same things!With more responsibilities you will find more freedom to make your own choices. This is a time to be well informed about your choices so that you can make healthy balanced decisions that will help shape your future. You may already know your career path or you may have no idea at all of what you want to do. Both situations are fine! If you are diligent, the right opportunity will be ready for you. Young adulthood means greater freedom and more choices. You will probably begin to want to do things independently of your family/ care-givers. Try not to shut your family out of your life and remember to be considerate even though you are older and are capable of looking after yourself. Your family have been with you since you came into this world and they will be around you when you leave this world.It is also perfectly natural in this time of transition to want to spend more time with your friends than your family. Choose your friends wisely. Real friends are rarer than hen’s teeth. A true friend will stand with you, whatever the circumstances are.This period of transition is a part of the circle of life. There are some people who will be with you throughout the life’s journey and there will be some people with whom you part and go separate ways. Leaving school/college can be hard. The reality is that you may not ever see all of your classmates again. Sure, there may be reunions and you will keep in touch with some of them. But the fact is you will need to leave some of them behind as you move forwards on the path that you feel is right for you.5. Facing the changes, some teenagers may feel frightened because _____.A. they feel alone when their family and friends leave themB. there are usually difficult things for them to deal withC. they have no life plans and feel helplessD. they have no freedom to make their own choices6. The author thinks teenage stage is __________. .A. too hard for young students to get throughB. a very important time for young students to break away from their parentsC. so exciting and challenging that the young should make balanced decisions for their futureD. a period when young students may pay little attention to their future plans7. In the last paragraph, the underlined wo rds “some people” probably refer to__________.A. classmatesB. parentsC. relativesD. brothers8. Some teenagers think that leaving school can be hard because____________.A. they wouldn’t like to choose their careers so soonB. they never have ideal grades at schoolC. reunions with schoolmates are not within the foreseeable futureD. they are too worried about their futureCIt is obvious that doctors recognize obesity as a health problem. So why is it so hard for them to talk to their patients about it?The results of two surveys, one of primary care physicians and the other of patients, found that while most doctors want to help patients lose weight and think it is their responsibility to do so, they often don’t know what to say.“So while doctors may tell patients they are overweight, the conversation often ends there,” said Christine C. Ferguson, director of the Stop Obesity Alliance. “Patients are not told about the possibility of diabetes (糖尿病),” she said. “And doctors don’t feel they have good information to give. They felt that they didn’t have adequate tools to address this problem.The lack of dialogue hurts patients, too. The patient survey, of over 1,000 adults, found that most ov erweight patients don’t even know that they’re too heavy. Only 39 percent of overweight people surveyed had ever been told by a health care provider that they were overweight.Of those who were told they were obese, 90 percent were also told by their doctors to lose weight, the survey found. In fact most have tried to lose weight and may have been successful in the past—and many are still trying, the survey found. And many understand that losing even a small amount of weight can have a positive impact on their health and reduce their risk of obesity-related diseases like hypertension and diabetes.Dr. William Bestermann Jr., medical director of Holston Medical Group, in Kingsport, Tenn. , which ranks the 10th in obesity among metropolitan areas in the United States, said the dialogue had to be an ongoing one and could not be dropped after just one mention of the problem. “If you’re to be successful with helping your patients lose weight, you have to talk to them at actually every visit about their p rogress, and find something to encourage them and coach them,” he said.He acknowledged that many doctors tend to be not optimistic.“Part of this is that there's this common belief, and doctors are burdened by it, too, that overweight people are weak-willed and just don’t have any willpower and are self­indulgent and all that business,” he said. “If you think that way, you’re not going to spend time having a productive conversation.”9. How many of the patients surveyed have been advised by their doctors to lose weight?A. About 350.B. About 390.C. About 900.D. About 1,000.10. What can be inferred about obesity patients in Paragraph 5?A. Most of them have tried hard to lose weight, but in vain.B. Without their doctors’ constant coaching, there is little chance of their succeeding in losingweight.C. Most of them have just given up their hope of becoming less heavy.D. They are not as hopeless as doctors think they are.11. According to the passage, which factor contributes to the lack of dialogue between doctors andpatients?A. Most doctors never think of warning their patients about their weight problem.B. Many doctors find it difficult to persuade overweight people to lose weight.C. Most patients are too weak-willed to do anything about their weight.D. Many patients tend not to trust their doctors about their weight problem.12. Which of the following is the best title of the passage?A. Obesity in the U. S.B. Talk more, help better.C. Trouble of overweight Americans.D. Doctors or patients---who to bear more blame?DWith smart phones taking the world by Storm, a phone that can only send and receive voice calls and text messages may seem like a relic from a bygone age. Yet in East Africa，simple phones like these are changing the face of the economy, thanks to the mobile money services that are spreading across the region.Using the text-messaging function built into the GSM system(全球通)used by most cell phone networks, these services allow people without a bank account or credit card to use their phone as an electronic wallet that can be used to store. send or receive cash.It works like this: you pay cash to your local agent who then tops up your mobile money account using a secure form of text messaging. That money can be transferred(转账)to another person by sending a message to their cell phone account.For some the system is a lifeline. “If I didn’t have my mobile phone. I would be very poor, “says Neyasse Neemur, a mother of four children who lives in northern Kenya. “Now I can sell fish.”Neemur took up fishing in July last year, but making money from it was a little tricky, especially as Turkana people do not usually eat fish. A truck from Ethiopia to Tanzania passes through her village once a week, and she arranged to have the driver transport the fish several hundred kilometres south to market in Kisumu, where her relatives sell the fish.“I get the money transfer immediately.” says Neemur. “Then I can pay for my children to go to school and for vegetables and beans,”she adds, “so I don’t need to eat fish.”According to the Central Bank of Kenya, payments worth around l billion Kenyan shillings($13 million)per day were transferred through Kenya’s mobile money systems in 2009, equaling the country’s credit card tra nsactions(业务). The bank expects mobile money transfers to overtake credit cards in 2011.13．In Paragraph l，the author uses “simple phones” to________.A．make a comparison B．introduce a topicC．describe a scene D．offer an argument 14．What can we learn about the simple phones in East Africa?A．They might help the local people apply for a bank account．B．They will replace the banks completely in the near future．C．They provide a safe means for the locals to do business．D．They can do nothing except send and receive calls or messages．15．The story of Neyasse Neemur suggests that_______.A．the mobile money service plays a key role in the locals’ lifeB．Neemur uses her mobile phone to contact her customersC．her relatives tricks Turkana people to eat the fish they sellD．the Bank of Kenya helps her improve her living condition第二节七选五（共5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填入空白处的最佳选项。