江苏省普通高等学校2017年高三招生考试20套模拟测试英语试题(八) Word版含解析

江苏省普通高等学校招生考试高三模拟测试卷(八)
英语本试卷分第Ⅰ卷(选择题)和第Ⅱ卷(非选择题)两部分。

满分120分，考试时间
120分钟。

第Ⅰ卷(选择题共85分)
第一部分：听力(共两节，满分20分)
第一节(共5小题；每小题1分，满分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 do we learn from the conversation?
A. The man hates to lend his tools to other people.
B. The man hasn't finished working on the bookshelf.
C. The man lost those tools.
()2. What do we know about the man?
A. He doesn't like his job.
B. He will not give up his job.
C. He has a large family to support.
()3. What's the relationship between the two speakers?
A. Classmates.
B. Teacher and student.
C. Headmaster and teacher.
()4. Who is worried about gaining weight?
A. The son.
B. Aunt Louise.
C. The mother.
()5. Why doesn't the woman buy the coat?
A. It is expensive.
B. There isn't her size.
C. She doesn't like the color.
第二节(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15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. What is the woman probably?
A. A hotel clerk.
B. A house agent.
C. A shop assistant.
()7. What is the pillow filled with?
A. Cotton.
B. Dried flowers.
C. A special material.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

()8. What kind of skills does the woman not have?
A. Operating computers.
B. Doing business.
C. Typing.
()9. Which company did the woman work in?
A. A trading company and a trust company.
B. A trust company.
C. A trading company.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

()10. What's wrong with the woman's mother?
A. She has been sick.
B. She misses her family and friends.
C. She can't earn enough to support her family.
()11. Where does the woman live?
A. In America.
B. In India.
C. In Britain.
()12. What does the woman plan to do next year?
A. Study a new language.
B. Travel to India.
C. Visit her father's native country.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

()13. How many Economics lectures will the man attend every week?
A. 5 times, from Monday to Friday.
B. Two times, on Thursday and Friday.
C. Two times, on Tuesday and Thursday.
()14. Why did the man miss the meeting for the new students yesterday?
A. Because he hadn't received any notice about that meeting.
B. Because he had to attend the group discussion.
C. Because he had to do some part time jobs yesterday.
()15. If a student wants to earn the scholarship, what is the required attendance rate?
A. 80%.
B. 90%.
C. 100%.
()16. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the conversation?
A. The man is a grade one student in the university.
B. The man has to work after school.
C. The man thinks the time of the lecture is too early.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

()17. How long has the speaker lived in a big city?
A. One year.
B. Ten years.
C. Eighteen years.
()18. What is the speaker's opinion on public transport?
A. It's comfortable.
B. It's time－saving.
C. It's cheap.
()19. What is good about living in a small town?
A. It's safer.
B. It's healthier.
C. It's more convenient.
()20. What kind of life do the speakers seem to like most?
A. Busy.
B. Colorful.
C. Quiet.
第二部分：英语基础知识运用(共两节，满分35分)
第一节：单项填空(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)
请认真阅读下面各题，从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

()21. Though Tom was physically challenged, he did not ________ himself to his fate.
A. resist
B. reserve
C. resign
D. rescue
()22. Press enter and the application form will be displayed on the screen ________ your address could be changed.
A. where
B. which
C. that
D. as
()23. — Look where you're going! Anything wrong?
—Oh, I ________ about the accident I saw in the morning. I was terrified when two cars collided.
A. have thought
B. was thinking
C. would think
D. will be thinking
()24. The Olympic Games, the world's greatest sporting event, advocate the principle that ________ matters is not winning but participating.
A. that
B. which
C. what
D. how
()25. The magician picked several persons ________ from the audience and asked them to help him with the performance.
A. by accident
B. at random
C. at risk
D. on average
()26. Despite her recent surgery she has been carrying on ________．
A. consequently
B. otherwise
C. likewise
D. regardless
()27. To get promoted, I must ________ my colleagues, who are committed to their jobs.
A. take after
B. take to
C. take in
D. take on
()28. ________ we never get entirely knocked out of the game, hope always remains.
A. Although
B. So long as
C. Even though
D. Unless
()29. Only when you try will you find how tough the bottleneck may be ________ through.
A. to squeeze
B. squeezed
C. squeezing
D. being squeezed
()30. He made great achievements in spite of his lowly ________．
A. resource
B. belief
C. origin
D. source
()31. His injuries were severe. Five minutes late, ________ he would have died.
A. but
B. or
C. so
D. and
()32. — Do you still remember when we went to Australia?
—I can't remember now but ________ sometime last winter?
A. might it be
B. could it be
C. could it have been
D. should it have been
()33. Much time ________ sitting at a desk, office clerks are generally troubled by various health problems.
A. being spent
B. having spent
C. spending
D. spent
()34. My sister is quite ________ and plans to get a PhD degree within one year.
A. aggressive
B. enthusiastic
C. considerate
D. ambitious
()35. — It really annoys me when a person's cell phone goes off during a movie!
—Yeah, me too. It really ________．
A. costs me an arm and a leg
B. gets on my nerves
C. beats my brains out
D. pulls my legs
第二节：完形填空(共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分)
请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

You and I agree to meet at four－thirty. I show up at 4：33. I don't say anything, because that's close enough to satisfy our social __36__. Only after five minutes do you __37__ me to say, “Sorry I'm late.”At ten minutes I owe you an __38__：“The freeway exit was closed. I had to go four miles out of my way.” After twenty minutes I have to make a full and serious __39__. After forty minutes I'd better not __40__ at all.
That sort of thing—so formally __41__ and never explicitly stated—drives people from other cultures __42__. Anthropologists(人类学家) list the __43__ things to cope with in a foreign land. Second only to the language barrier is the way we deal with __44__．
Now psychologists look at our __45__ of time another way. They go into several countries and measure the __46__ of life. They measure the accuracy of bank clocks and how fast city residents walk. They time transactions(交易) in banks and post offices. They see __47__ people take to answer questions.
Japanese keep a __48__ of the fastest pace. Americans are a __49__ second. Italians and Indonesians are at the bottom of the __50__. Italians give long answers to your questions. Indonesians don't __51__ setting their bank clocks.
__52__ American cities, Boston and Kansas City are fastest. New York is up there, of course, but we keep a faster pace here in Houston. California's “slow－pace” reputation is __53__，as the slowest pace of all is kept in Los Angeles.
In a technology－dense world, the tension of life has changed our view of time. __54__，if we are smart enough, we should not live by the clock only when we have to.
Now it's 4：55. I'm walking __55__，towards our 4：30 meeting.
()36. A. contract B. connection C. construction D. confidence
()37. A. order B. intend C. require D. expect
()38. A. action B. announcement C. explanation D. eruption
()39. A. apology B. excuse C. option D. opinion
()40. A. look up B. stay up C. keep up D. show up
()41. A. observed B. introduced C. impressed D. imitated
()42. A. immoral B. unaware C. crazy D. thrilled
()43. A. fastest B. toughest C. strangest D. funniest
()44. A. study B. time C. budget D. transport
()45. A. view B. comment C. contact D. phenomenon
()46. A. rhyme B. pace C. ratio D. session
()47. A. how often B. how far C. how soon D. how long
()48. A. tradition B. note C. record D. secret
()49. A. narrow B. shallow C. close D. severe
()50. A. mood B. address C. reference D. list
()51. A. take over B. care about C. reply to D. answer for
()52. A. Off B. Among C. Despite D. Besides
()53. A. ruined B. accomplished C. erased D. deserved
()54. A. However B. Therefore C. Thus D. Rather
()55. A. consistently B. unconsciously C. unhurriedly D. anxiously
第三部分：阅读理解(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)
请认真阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A
Every year, countless nonprofit organizations want to double their donations. Many companies in the United States have a Matching Gift program, which offers certain amount of money to these organizations when its employee makes a personal donation. The following list includes information on four major companies' matching gift programs.
()56. When a company's employee makes a donation to a nonprofit, the Matching Gift programs will ________．
A. compensate the employee
B. donate instead of the employee
C. give certain donations as well
D. organize some voluntary events
()57. From the list we know that ________．
A. Coca－Cola offers three times donations of its employees' to religious groups
B. Coca－Cola handles its employees' donation request quickly
C. GE and Verizon will give the same amount, if an employee donates $20
D. Google's employees can claim matching gifts in various forms
()58. The purpose of this passage is ________．
A. to inform
B. to entertain
C. to explain
D. to persuade
B
Flickering lights are annoying but they may have an advantage. Visible light communication(VLC) uses rapid pulses of light to transmit information wirelessly. Now it may be ready to compete with conventional Wi－Fi.
In a recent TED talk, Harald Haas from the University of Edinburgh, UK demonstrated one VLC prototype(原型), “Li－Fi”，transmitting a video from a store－bought LED lamp to a solar cell to a laptop. “Li－Fi is essentially the same as Wi－Fi, except for a small difference—we use LED lights around us to transmit the data wirelessly as opposed to using radio，”Haas says.
Once established, VLC could solve some major communication problems. In 2009, the US Federal Communications Commission(FCC) warned of a spectrum(波谱) crisis: because our mobile devices are so data－hungry we will soon run out of radio－frequency bandwidth. Li－Fi could free up bandwidth, especially as much of the infrastructure is already in place. “There are around 14 billion light bulbs worldwide, they just need to be replaced with LED ones that transmit data，”says Haas.
The idea of transmitting data through the visible light spectrum is not new. Alexander Graham Bell transmitted sound via a beam of sunlight in 1880 using a photophone, a sort of solar －powered wireless telephone. In the past several decades, a number of researchers have looked at using visible light to transmit data.
But what Haas seized_on is the use of simple LED light bulbs for data transmission. LED bulbs are controlled by a driver, which can rapidly dim the light or turn it on or off. Therefore, Haas figured, data could be encoded in subtle shifts of the light's brightness. Eventually, he created a working transmitter and receiver system with an IKEA lamp and a solar panel.
Li－Fi stands to be much faster than Wi－Fi. According to Haas' research, Li－Fi can achieve data density 1，000 times greater than Wi－Fi, because Li－Fi signals are contained in a small area, as opposed to the more diffuse(分散的) radio signals. The system wouldn't mean having to keep your lights on all the time either, Haas says—bulbs could be dimmed to such a
point that they appear off, but still transmit data.
Now, Haas' team hopes that Li－Fi could make its way into homes in a few years. The system can easily network any device with an LED light—an electric kettle, an oven. Eventually, this could bring about the Internet of Things era much faster. Haas also sees Li－Fi as a way to bring Internet to remote locations, using hilltop transmitters and rooftop solar panels. LED streetlights could even be used to form a network of outdoor Li－Fi, making it possible to stay connected when walking around the city.
But some sound a cautious note about VLC's future. It becomes less powerful, for example, when light is blocked, whether due to fog or other conditions.
()59. By saying “There are around 14 billion light bulbs worldwide，”Hass intends to tell us that ________．
A. mobile devices will consume more data
B. radio－frequency bandwidth needs to be freed up
C. VLC might solve the spectrum crisis
D. the world has a complete lighting infrastructure
()60. The underlined phrase “seized on” in the passage is closest in meaning to “________”．
A. distinguished
B. exploited
C. created
D. figured
()61. We can learn from the passage that ________．
A. Li－Fi cannot work outdoors
B. Li－Fi can work with LED lights off
C. Li－Fi can be used with all household appliances
D. Li－Fi needs improving to meet diverse needs
C
“There's no point in talking with you: you don't understand me. Yo u don't even know me.”
A teen spits these words at a parent, who is hurt and annoyed. How can her own child say these things? She's worked hard getting to know him, learning to read his feelings from his voice and gestures. How can her own child now say to her, “You don't know who I really am”？
Nothing shakes a parent's confidence as much as the starting of a child's adolescence. The communication that has flowed easily through word, glance and touch becomes a minefield(雷
区)．
Recent discoveries that the human brain undergoes specific and dramatic development during adolescence offer new “explanations”of teen behavior, particularly of the impulsiveness(冲动) of teenagers. During this development, there may be too many synapses(神经元突触) for the brain to work efficiently; the mental capacities of decision－making, judgment and control are not mature until the age of twenty－four.
An older explanation is that anger hormones account for the apparently unreasonable moodiness(情绪化) of teens. Though hormones do play a role in human feelings, the real task of adolescence, and the real cause of the unrest, is the uncertainty of teenagers about who they are, alongside their eagerness to establish a sense of identity.
This involves self－questioning, self－discovery and self－development across a range of issues, including sex, faith, intellect and relationships. A sense of who we are is not a mere luxury; without it we feel worthless. A teen often looks upon his or her friends as models: “I don't know who I am, but I know who he is, I'll be like him，”is the underlying thought. Parents also become such mirrors: teens want that mirror to reflect back to them the vividness and clarity they themselves do not feel.
Arguments with parents can often be understood in this context. While those common teenager－parent quarrels, which explode every few days, are often over small things such as homework, housework, and respect; a teenager's real focus is on a parent's recognition of his maturity and capability and human value. “No, you can't go out tonight，”implies that a parent doesn't trust him to make decisions. And, in a teen's eyes, that's not only unfair, but shame. “Have you got your keys？” or “Do you have enough money for the bus？” are questions that can be easily accepted if asked by a concerned friend, but awaken a teen's own doubts if asked by a parent. Feeling the need to distinguish himself from the kid who can't remember to take his lunch, his keys or his money, he blames the parent for reminding him of the child－self still living within him. What my research shows is that quarreling with your teen doesn't necessarily mean you have a bad relationship. The quality of teenager－parent relationship has several measures.
()62. According to the text, teenagers ________．
A. can fully understand their parents' feelings
B. need guidance in every aspect of their life
C. may experience a huge mental change
D. know themselves better than their parents do
()63. What do we learn from the text?
A. Parents hate talking to their children because they can't understand them.
B. The brains of teenagers work more efficiently because of the synapses.
C. Hormones are the real causes of unrest and moodiness in teens.
D. What teens really care about is being recognized by their parents.
()64. What is implied in the last paragraph?
A. Quarrels between children and parents often involve serious issues.
B. A parent should not ask a child about money.
C. A child wants respect, especially from his or her parents.
D. Quarrels are a sign of a bad relationship.
()65. What will probably be written in the following paragraph?
A. Other ways of assessing teenager－parent relationship.
B. The anger and sadness of parents about their teens.
C. How important the friends of teenagers are.
D. When children become mentally mature.
D
The Toltecs—as they were now called—began to know great abundance and enjoy the generous gifts of the land, as had been foretold by Quetzalcoatl.
“He has great powers. He has made us rich. We have not known hunger since he arrived. Where he places his eyes and hands, everything is abundance and beauty.”
They were happy, they were proud. At that time they all still worked at the jobs Quetzalcoatl assigned to them.
Tula grew. People came from far away to admire its growth. Many asked permission to settle down and enjoy its abundance, which was distributed according to the needs of the people. Topiltzin was in charge of distributing the riches, under the orders of Quetzalcoatl, so that no one would want. They were all content because they all had more than they had ever had. Many worked. They were busy all day.
Quetzalcoatl had spent six years among the Toltecs. The house for the heart of the people was
almost finished and the granaries full when he decided：
“There is prosperity(繁荣) and abundance in all the land. Let us extend it beyond the mountains. We shall go to the land of the Chichimecs. It is time to take my mission to them. I shall make them better, I shall make them live together, I shall gather them in towns, I shall teach them to till the land and to build their homes.”
“Let us leave them in their land as they are now，”Topiltzin argued. “They are savages(野蛮人); their life is violent and disorderly. They move freely, like the wind in the mountains and the plains, with nothing to keep them. Leave them where they are. There is much that we must do in our own land.
“I do not belong to this land alone. They are all my brothers, and I am to give to all of them.
I shall look for them. I shall take the gods of Tula to them，”Quetzalcoatl said.
“Think carefully about what we shall do. You do not know them. They do not understand words. They are like savage animals, like jaguars，”Topiltzin insisted.
“I shall go，”said Quetzalcoatl. “My life must be accomplished. This time you will not accompany me because you do not have the will to go. I shall leave soon with some of my followers.”
“Do not go with so few people! I shall accompany you with skillful warriors who are used to killing Chichimecs and avoiding their traps.” Topiltzin insisted.
“I am not going there with violence. I shall go to them as I came here, to take them the gifts of life and the doctrine of sin and redemption(原罪与救赎)．”
“You have not spoken of sin and redemption for a long time，”Tattle remarked. He had been listening attentively to the dialogue, and was then close to seventeen years of age. “You have not come near the Tree you planted in the square in a long time. The Tree has no shoots, it has not grown, it looks sad and lonely.”
“During this time, Tattle, I have often thought of it. There was confusion in my spirit. Now the Tree orders me to spread good in other lands, to make other brothers happy. It will soon have shoots.”
()66. This reading passage is most probably an account of ________．
A. history
B. politics
C. a contemporary life
D. a myth or legend
()67. From the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. The city of Tula owed its growth to Quetzalcoatl.
B. Quetzalcoatl believed he had been entrusted with a sacred mission.
C. The followers will persuade him not to go to the land of the Chichimecs.
D. Quetzalcoatl's Tree was a symbol for him and the Toltecs.
()68. According to the passage, the prosperity of Tula ________．
A. was due to Toltecs' godlike behavior
B. occurred prior to Quetzalcoatl's appearance
C. was a relatively recent development
D. was yet to be established
()69. When Tattle refers to Quetzalcoatl's Tree, saying that the Tree is “sad and lonely”，he means that ________．
A. the Tree is near its death
B. Quetzalcoatl has forgotten the Tree's significance
C. the Toltecs have ignored the Tree
D. there should have been celebrations around the Tree
()70. The “shoots” mentioned in the last paragraph refer to ________．
A. the spread of Quetzalcoatl's beliefs to other areas
B. the Tree's growing roots and branches yet to develop
C. the Toltecs outlying settlements
D. the “savage animals, like jaguars”
第Ⅱ卷(非选择题共35分)
第四部分：任务型阅读(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)
请认真阅读下面短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。

注意：每个空格只填1个单词。

Everybody loves self－improvement. That's why we're such enthusiastic consumers of “top 10” lists of things to do to be a more productive, promotable, mindful—you name it—leader. But these lists seldom work. What if we didn't think of self－improvement as work? What if we thought of it as play—specifically, as playing with our sense of self?
Traditionally, people work on themselves, committed to doing everything in their power to change their leadership style. You set your goals and objectives, you are mindful of your time, and
seek efficient solutions. You're not going to deviate(偏离) from the straight and narrow. You focus on what you should do, especially as others see it, as opposed to what you want to do. It's all very serious and not whole lot of fun. There is one right answer. Success or failure is the outcome. We judge ourselves.
In contrast, no matter what you're up to, when you're in “play” mode, your primary drivers are enjoyment and discovery instead of goals and objectives. You're curious. You lose track of time. Like in all forms of play, the journey becomes more important than a pre－set destination. Much research shows how play develops creativity and innovation. Playing with your own idea of yourself is similar to playing with future possibilities. So, we stop evaluating today's self against an unachievable ideal of leadership that doesn't really exist. We also stop trying to will ourselves to “commit” to becoming someth ing we are not even sure we want to be—what we call the “feared self”，which is composed of images of negative role models. And, we shift direction, from submitting to what other people want us to be to becoming more self－authoring. As a result, when you play, you're more creative and more open to what you might learn about yourself.
Unfortunately, we don't often get—or give ourselves—permission to play with our sense of self. In life, we equate playfulness with the person who dips into a great variety of possibilities, never committing to any. We find inconsistency distasteful, so we exclude options that seem too far off from today's “authentic self”，without ever giving them a try. This kills the discontinuous growth that only comes when we surprise ourselves.
Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips once said, “people tend to play only with serious things—madness, disaster, other people”. Playing with your self is a serious effort because who we might become is not knowable or predictable at the start. That's why it's as dangerous as it is necessary for growth.
第五部分：书面表达(满分25分)
How many times have you heard the expression that most people spend more time planning their vacation than they do planning their lives. I would expand that expression by adding that most people spend more time “thinking” about their vacation than they do thinking about what's important in their life.
While rest and relaxation are a must in living a balanced life, it's not what we were created to do. After all, the Master Creator took his R&R(Rest and Recreation)on the seventh day, only after six days of “definitely directed thought.”
Wallace D. Wattles, wrote “There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and continuous thought; it is the hardest work in the world.” And yet it is the first and primary labor achievement.
What is your life's purpose or your personal mission statement? Is it written down? Do you review it and think about it often? Is your life organized around your purpose and a set of goals that support that purpose?
Without purpose and goals—definitely directed thought—you are like the proverbial “ship without a rudder(舵)”. There is power in your purpose and in your goals. It is the power that
takes you over obstacles, the fuel that pushes you toward the life you expect.
【写作内容】
1. 用约30个词写出上文概要。

2. 用约120个词发表你的观点，内容包括：
(1) 你如何规划中学以后的人生？为什么？
(2) 为了实现你的目标，你将如何行动？
【写作要求】
1. 写作过程中不能直接引用原文语句。

2. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。

3. 不必写标题。

【评分标准】
内容完整，语言规范，语篇连贯，词数适当。

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听力
1~5 CBBCB 6~10 ACBAB 11~15 ABCAB 16~20 CBCAB
单项填空
21.C 解析：考查动词辨析。

resign在这里意为“听从于”，符合句意，即Tom虽然身体不太好，但是他不愿听从于命运（的摆布）。

22.A 解析：考查定语从句。

句意：按回车键，你的申请表便出现在屏幕上，你便可以在这里修改你的地址了。

where引导定语从句，修饰先行词screen，where在定语从句中作状语，指地点。

23.B 解析：考查动词的时态。

根据题干可知，答话者是说刚才在想早上看到的事故，故用过去进行时，即因为刚才正在想早上发生的事故，所以走错地方了。

24.C 解析：考查名词性从句。

空格前的that引导同位语从句，修饰名词principle；what引导的主语从句作同位语从句的主语，且what在这个主语从句中作主语。

25.B 解析：考查介词短语辨析。

by accident意为“偶尔地”；at random意为“任意地”；at risk意为“处于危险中”；on average意为“平均地”。

句意：魔术师从观众中随意挑出了几个人，要求他们帮他表演节目。

根据句意可知，B项符合。

26.D 解析：考查副词辨析。

consequently意为“因此”；otherwise意为“要不然”；likewise意为“同样地”；regardless意为“不顾一切地”。

根据句意可知D项正确，即虽然最近刚做过外科手术，她却不顾一切地继续工作。

27.A 解析：考查动词短语辨析。

take after意为“仿效”；take to意为“喜欢”；take in意为“欺骗”；take on意为“承担；雇用；呈现”。

这句话是说要向那些努力工作的同事们学习。

只有A项符合语境。

28.B 解析：考查连词辨析。

B项意为“只要”，引导条件状语从句，符合语境。

句意：只要我们没有被彻底淘汰出局，就仍然有希望。

A项意为“虽然”；C项意为“即使”；D项意为“除非”。

29.A 解析：考查非谓语动词。

“sth.+be+ adj. +动词不定式”为固定句式，其中动词不定式常用主动形式表示被动含义。

A项正确。

30.C 解析：考查名词辨析。

lowly origin为固定短语，意为“出身低微”。

句意：尽管他出身低微，但是却取得了很大的成就。

31.D 解析：考查祈使句。

这是一个并列句，这里的名词短语five minutes late相当于come five minutes late的省略，与后半句构成固定句式“祈使句+and+简单句”，相当于if条件句。

32.C 解析：考查情态动词的用法。

表示已经发生过的事情，用“情态动词+have done”，根据时间状语last winter可以排除A、B两项；根据I can't remember now可知，这是表示对过去事情的推测，故选C项。

33.D 解析：考查非谓语动词。

这是一个独立主格结构。

由于spend与句子主语office clerks之间没有逻辑关系，因此要给它加上一个逻辑主语，构成独立主格结构；而spend 与其逻辑主语time之间是动宾关系，故用过去分词。

D项正确。

34.D 解析：考查形容词辨析。

aggressive意为“侵略性的；有进取心的”；enthusiastic 意为“热情的”；considerate意为“考虑周到的”；ambitious意为“雄心勃勃的”。

根据题干后半句“plans to get a PhD degree within one year”可知我的妹妹雄心勃勃，想在一年内取得博士学位。

故选D。

35.B 解析：考查习语。

A项意为“使我付出沉重代价”；B项意为“令我非常烦恼”；C 项意为“动脑筋”；D项意为“同我开玩笑；愚弄我”。

根据题干第一句话可知，说话者对于
看电影时某人手机突然响起感到很恼火，而根据答语中的me too可知，答话者对此有同感，故B项符合语境。

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【文章大意】本文讨论了哪些国家的生活节奏最快的问题。

文章告诉我们，节奏最快的是日本，其次是美国。

36.A 解析：A项意为“合同；契约”，符合语境，social contract（社会契约），即约好4:30，而“我”是4:33到的，这符合社会契约。

37.D 解析：仅仅在五分钟过后，你便想让“我”说“对不起，我迟到了。

”expect sb. to do（期待某人做）。

38.C 解析：根据冒号后面的内容可知，此处是“我”对迟到原因的解释（explanation）。

action意为“行动”；announcement意为“宣布；通知”；eruption意为“爆发”。

39.A 解析：根据前面的五分钟、十分钟可知，这里在意思上表示递进，即迟到五分钟“我”要说对不起、迟到十分钟“我”要给出解释、而迟到二十分钟则要做出隆重、严肃的道歉（apology）。

因此选A。

40.D 解析：show up意为“出现”；look up意为“查阅；尊重”；stay up意为“熬夜”；keep up意为“保持；不低落”。

这里是进一步递进，即如果迟到四十分钟，干脆不要来了。

故选D。

41.A 解析：observe意为“遵守”，符合语境，即这些（上一段提到的）规则必须是严格遵守的。

introduce意为“介绍”；impress意为“打动”；imitate意为“模仿”。

42.C 解析：这些规则必须要遵守，而这些规则让来自于其他文化国家的人感到发疯。

drive sb. crazy为固定短语，意为“使某人发疯”。

A项意为“不道德的”；B项意为“不知道的”；D项意为“刺激的”。

43.B 解析：根据后面一句话中的barrier可知，toughest符合语境，即列出在国外最难处理的事情。

44.B 解析：根据第一段和下文内容都可知道，本文主要讲的是处理时间方面的问题。

故选B项。

45.A 解析：我们对于时间的观点（view）。

46.B 解析：rhyme意为“韵律”；pace意为“步伐”；ratio意为“比例；比率”；session 意为“会议；学期”。

根据上下文语境可知B项正确，因为讨论的是时间，当然是可以衡量生活节奏了。

47.D 解析：句意：他们观察人们回答问题要花多长时间。

48.C 解析：record意为“记录”，符合语境。

句意：日本人保持着生活节奏最快的记录。

49.C 解析：narrow意为“狭窄的”；shallow意为“浅显的；浅的”；close意为“近的；靠近的”；severe意为“严重的”。

根据前后两句话可知，C项正确，即美国人的生活节奏占第二，接近日本的生活节奏。

50.D 解析：考查名词。

at the bottom of the list本义为“在名单的最下面”，符合语境，即意大利和印尼是节奏最慢的国家。

51.B 解析：care about意为“关心；在乎”，符合语境。

take over意为“接管”；reply to意为“回答”；answer for意为“对……负责”。

52.B 解析：句意：在美国城市中波士顿和堪萨斯节奏是最快的。

among表示“在……中”，符合句意。

53.D 解析：根据这句话后面的“as the slowest pace of all is kept in Los Angeles”可知，D项正确，即加利福尼亚“慢节奏”的名声是应得的。