广东省高考英语新题型之仿真模拟考试试题(十四)

广东省高考英语新题型之仿真模拟考试试题（十四）
英语
（本试卷共三大题，满分135分；考试用时1。

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Ⅰ语言知识及应用（共两节，满分45分)
第一节完形填空(共15小题；每小题2分．满分30分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意．然后从1—15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Shopping habits in the United States have changed greatly in the last quarter of the century. Early in the 1900s most American towns and cities had a Main Street. Main Street was always in the heart of a town. This street was 1 on both sides with many 2 businesses. Here, shoppers walked into stores to look at all sorts of merchandise: clothing, furniture, hardware, groceries. 3 , some shops offered 4 .These shops included drugstores, restaurants, shoe-repair stores, and barber or hairdressing shops. 5 in the 1950s, a change began to 6 .Too many automobiles had crowded into Main Street while too few parking places were 7 shoppers. Because the streets were crowded, merchants began to look with interest at the open spaces 8 the city limits. Open space is what their car-driving customers needed.
And open space is what they got when the first shopping centre was built. Shopping centres, or rather malls, 9 as a collection of small new stores 10 crowded city centres. 11 by hundreds of free parking space, customers were drawn away from 11 areas to outlying malls. And the growing 12 of shopping centres led 13 to the building of bigger and better stocked stores. By the late 1970s, many shopping malls had almost developed into small cities themselves. In addition to providing the 15 of one stop shopping, malls were transformed into landscaped parks, with benches, fountains, and outdoor entertainment.
1. A. built B. designed C. intended D. lined
2. A. varied B. various C. sorted D. mixed up
3. A. Apart from B. However C. In addition D. As well
4. A. medical care B. food C. cosmetics D. services
5. A. suddenly B. Abruptly C. Contrarily D. But
6. A. be taking place B. take place C. be taken place D. have taken place
7. A. available for B. available to C. used by D. ready for
8. A. over B. from C. out of D. outside
9. A. started B. founded C. set up D. organized
10. A. out of B. away from C. next to D. near
11. A. Attracted B. Surprised C. Delighted D. Enjoyed
12. A. inner B .central C. shopping D. downtown
13. A. distinction B. fame C. popularity D. liking
14. A. on B. in turn C. by turns D. further
15. A. cheapness B. readiness C. convenience D. handiness
第二节语法填空(共10小题；每小题l 5分．满分l5分)
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16—25的相应位置上。

The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese calendar. For thousands of years, the festival __16__________ (mark) by eating zong zi and racing dragon boats in honour of Qu Yuan, who is said to have committed suicide(自杀) by drowning himself.
Qu was a minister of the State of Chu ____17____ (situate) in the present-day Hunan and Hubei provinces, during the Warring States Period（战国时期）. He was upright, loyal and highly respected. ____18____, he was dismissed from office. __19____ (realize) that the country was in the hands of evil officials, Qu leapt into River Miluo on the fifth day of the fifth month. Nearby fishermen rushed over to save him but were ______ (able) to recover his body.
The people of Chu ____21____ mourned Qu’s death threw rice into the river to feed his ghost ____22____ year on the day of his death. But one year, the spirit of Qu appeared and told the mourners that a huge reptile（爬行动物）in the river had stolen the rice. The spirit then advised __23______ to wrap the rice and bind it _24_______ throwing it into the river.
During the Duanwu Festival, zong zi is eaten to symbolize（象征，表示）the rice offerings to Qu. And the dragon-boat races symbolize __25______ many attempts to rescue and recover Qu's body.
Ⅱ阅读(共两节，满分50分)
第一节：阅读理解（共；每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

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Microwaves may be great at warming up food, but what about warming people?
Using microwaves to directly heat owners of a room would save much of the energy wasted by heating walls and furniture. And despite popular ideas about microwaves, this technique would be safe, according to Charles R. Burlier of the Microwave Research Center in Marlborough, New Hampshire. Low-power microwaves only
penetrate (贯穿) the skin (low-power microwave penetration in a ham is about 0.2 inches, for example) and with no negative effects.
To test this idea, Buffler subjected himself to microwaves in a special room using a standard 500-watt, 2459 MHz magnetron (磁控管). He found that a person will start to feel warmth at about ilowatts per square centimeter (mw. / sq. cm. ) ; a satisfactory feeling of warmth occurs between 35 and 50 mw. / sq. cm. By comparison, a person standing in noonday summer sun feels the amount of 85 mw. / sq. cm. And a frozen meat pie in your microwave oven receives about 1000 mw. / sq. cm.
In houses of the future, each room could be provided with its own magnetron, says Buffler. When you stepped into the living room, for example, a motion detector (运动感应器)would turn on the magnetron, filling the room with low-power microwaves. In the same way that a microwave oven heats up a hamburger, but not the plate it’s on, you would feel warmth from the microwaves without changing the temperature of your coffee table. (You could, however, make your favorite easy chair even more comfortable by treating it with a radiation-absorbing chemical.)
While it might be some time before homeowners are comfortable enough with the idea to set up whole-body microwave heaters in houses, Buffler says microwaves may attract livestock(家畜) farmers. Lambs that are born outdoors in winter, for example, are frequently lost to cold. Microwaves could warm the lambs safely and quickly.
26. Which of the following can tell the main idea of the passage?
A. A new heating system.
B. A new microwave oven.
C. A popular technique.
D. The magnetron.
27. According to Paragraph 2, which of the following does not describe the characteristics of a microwave heater?
A. It directly heats people in a room.
B. It heats walls and furniture in a room.
C. It is safe.
D. It saves energy．
28. The test conducted by Buffler shows that when a person feels comfortable warmth, he receives about
________________.
A. w. / sq. cm.
B. 40 mw. / sq. cm.
C. 60 mw. / sq. cm.
D. 85 mw. / sq. cm.
29. According to Paragraph 4, which of the following fills the room with low-power microwaves?
A. The magnetron.
B. The motion detector.
C. The microwave oven.
D. The radiation-absorbing chemical.
30. Which of the following statements about microwave heaters would Buffler most probably agree with?
A. Microwave heaters will soon be widely used by homeowners.
B. Microwave heaters sometimes make people feel uncomfortable.
C. Perhaps microwave heaters will be first used by livestock farmers, who wish to protect their lambs in
winter.
D. Microwave heaters cannot be accepted by the public because they are somewhat unsafe.
B
Everywhere man is altering the balance of nature．He is facilitating the spread of plants and animals into new regions, sometimes deliberately, sometimes unconsciously．He is covering huge areas with new kinds of plants, or with houses, factories, slag-heaps and other products of his civilization．He exterminates some species on a large scale, but favors the multiplication of others．In brief, he has done more in five thousand years to alter the biological aspect of the planet than has nature in five million．
Many of these changes which he has brought about have had unforeseen consequences．Who would have thought that the throwing away of a piece of Canadian waterweed would have caused half the waterways of Britain to be blocked for a decade, or that the provision of pot cacti for lonely settlers’ wives w ould have led to Eastern Australian being overrun with forests of Prickly Pear? Who would have prophesied that the cutting down of forests on the Adriatic coasts, or in parts of Central Africa, could have reduced the land to a semi desert, with the very soil washed away from the bare rock? Who would have thought that improved communications would have changed history by the spreading of disease-sleeping sickness into East Africa, measles into Oceania, very possibly malaria into ancient Greece?
These are spectacular examples; but examples on a smaller scale are everywhere to be found．We make a nature sanctuary for rare birds, prescribing absolute security for all species; and we may find that some common and hardy kind of bird multiplies beyond measure and ousts the rare kinds in which we were particularly interested．We see, owing to some little change brought about by civilization, the starling spread over the English country-side in hordes．We improve the yielding capacities of our cattle; and find that now they exhaust the pastures which sufficed for less exigent stock．
31．The following examples except _______________ reflect man altering the balance of nature．
A．man is covering huge areas with new kinds of plants
B．man is facilitating the spread of animals into new regions．
C．man is killing some species on a large scale
D．man is getting to know the importance of keeping the balance of nature．
32．What had a piece of Canadian waterweed cause?
A．Eastern Australian was overrun with forests．
B．Half the waterways of Britain blocked for a decade．
C．In parts of central Africa, the land reduced to a semi desert．
D．Disease-sleeping has been caused．
33．What have spread diseases?
A．Disease-sleeping sickness．B．Measles．
C．Improved communications．D．Malaria．
34．We make a nature sanctuary for rare birds but _______________.
A．some common and hardy kind of bird multiplies
B．rare kinds multiply
C．all bird multiply
D．no bird multiply
35．The main idea of the passage is ______________．
A．that man is deliberately destroying the balance of nature
B．that man has foreseen the consequences of altering the balance old nature
C．that improved communications have changed history
D．that man is altering the balance of nature
C
The way people hold to the belief that a fun-filled, pain free life equals happiness actually reduces their chances of ever attaining real happiness. If fun and pleasure are equal to happiness then pain must be equal to unhappiness. But in fact, the opposite is true: more often than not things that lead to happiness involve some pain.
As a result, many people avoid the very attempts that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment （承担的义务）, self - improvement.
Ask a bachelor（单身汉）why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he is honest he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment. For commitment is in fact quite painful.
The single life is filled with fun, adventure, excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features.
Couples with infant children are lucky to get a whole night’s sleep or a three - d ay vacation. I don’t know any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children. But couples who decide not to have children never know the joys of watching a child grow up or of playing with a grandchild.
Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those who are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.
36．According to the author, a bachelor resists marriage chiefly because ____________ .
A. he is reluctant to take on family responsibilities
B. he believes that life will be more cheerful if he remains single
C. he finds more fun in dating than in marriage
D. he fears it will put an end to all his fun adventure and excitement
37．Raising children, in the author’s opinion is ____________ .
A. a moral duty
B. a thankless job
C. a rewarding task
D. a source of inevitable pain
38．From the last paragraph, we learn that envy sometimes stems from ____________ .
A. hatred
B. misunderstanding
C. prejudice
D. ignorance
39．To understand what true happiness is one must ____________ .
A. have as much fun as possible during one’s lifetime
B. make every effort to liberate oneself from pain
C. put up with pain under all circumstances
D. be able to distinguish happiness from fun
40．What is the author trying to tell us?
A. Happiness often goes hand in hand with pain．
B. One must know how to attain happiness.
C. It is important to make commitments.
D. It is pain that leads to happiness.
D
In a few years, you might be able to speak Chinese, Korean, Japanese, French, and English
— and all at the same time. This sounds incredible, but Alex Waibel, a computer science professor at US's Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Germany's University of Karlsruhe, announced last week that it may soon be reality. He and his team have invented software and hardware that could make it far easier for people who
One application, called Lecture Translation, can easily translate a speech from one language into another. Current translation technologies typically limit speakers to certain topics or a limited vocabulary. Users also have
Another prototype(雏形机) can send translations of a speech to different listeners depending on what language they speak. “It is like having a simultaneous translator right next to you but without disturbing the
Prefer to read? So-called Translation Glasses transcribe(转录) the translations on a tiny liquid-crystal(液晶)
Then there’s the Muscle Translator. Electrodes capture the elect rical signals from facial muscle movements made naturally when a person is mouthing words. The signals are then translated into speech. The electrodes
During a demonstration held last Thursday in CMU's Pittsburgh campus, a Chinese student named Stan Jou had 11 tiny electrodes attached to the muscles of his cheeks, neck and throat. Then he mouthed —without speaking aloud —a few words in Mandarin(普通话) to the audience. A few seconds later, the phrase was displayed on a computer screen and spoken out by the computer in English and Spanish: “Let me introduce our
This particular gadget(器械),when fully developed, might allow anyone to speak in any number of languages or, as Waibel put it, “to switch your mouth to a foreign language”. “The idea behind the university's prototypes is to create ‘good enough’ bridges for cross-cultural exchanges that are becoming more common in the world,”
With spontaneous(自发的) translators, foreign drivers in Germany could listen to traffic warnings on the
radio, tourists in China could read all the signs and talk with local people, and leaders of different countries could have secret talks without any interpreter
41. Which of the following statements is not TRUE?
C. Muscle Translators can translate what you think into spee
D. The spontaneous translators will help us a lot.
42. What kind of equipment is NOT mentioned in this passage?
A. Lecture Translation.
C. Multiple Translator.
D. Translation Prototype.
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C. To make people live i
D. To help people learn more foreign languages in the future.
44. What can be inferred from the seventh paragraph?
B. T
C. With the help of the translator, you only need to open your mouth when you want to say something without
D. The translator needs to be improved before being put into market.
45. Where can this passage probably be excerpted from?
A. A newspaper.
C. A fairy tale.
D. A scientific fantasy book.
第二节信息匹配(共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)
请阅读下面应用文和相关信息，按照要求进行匹配，并在答题卡上将对应题号的相应选项字母涂黑。

首先，请阅读下列广告信息：
A. ENGLISH LANGUAGE CENTER
Classes for beginners for 3 months.
Focus on grammar as well as writing and oral English.
3:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Small classes with maximum 8 students
Course fee: $300(10% discount for the first to enroll)
Tel: 22325445
B. HALIFAX PLAYHOUSE
Ring’s Cross Street, Halifax.
Oct. 10th –17th on Golden Pond by Emest Thompson.
This is a magical comedy about real people. A well-acted play for everyone. Don’t miss it.
Performances: 7:30 p.m.
Admission: $3.
Tel: 3659 9988
C: LONDON COLLEGE OF ENGLISH
Classes for foreign students of all levels.
3 months, 6 months, 9 months and 1 year course.
Focus on spoken language.
Open through all year from 8:00 a. m. to 5:00 p.m.
Small class with maximum 12 students.
Course fee for English for one year: $1,Discount at shorter period of study. Tel: 22342381
D: EXHIBITIONS OF OIL PAINTINGS
Gallery of the Central Academy of Fine Art
A combination of Eastern and Western Art
8:00 am to 5:00 p.m. from January 3rd to 19th
Admission: $2 for adults, $1 for students
Tel: 33569875
E: WESTERN ART SHOW
China National Art Museum
European modern art, Chinese art and African ancient art.
Open from 7:30 am to 4:00 pm from January 6th to
Admission: $3 for adults, $1.5 for middle school students.
Tel: 25545569
F: GRAND THEATRE
Oxford Street, Leeds.
Restaurant and Café.
Sept. 1-19
Admission: Tues-Thurs. $2~6; Fri. & Sat. $4~8
Sue Townsend’s musical play.
Performances: Evenings 7:45. October 10~17, at 2:30 p.m. No Monday performance.
All kinds of drinks offered
Tel: 5611
然后请阅读下列Wendy 等人的信息，并匹配各人所需要联系的电话号码：
46. Wendy, a student who is interested in comedy and performing, happens to be free on Oct. 12th and wants to
relax herself by enjoying some performances, but she has no more than $4.
47 Carol happens to be free on October 15th and plans to enjoy some performances while having a cup of coffee.
48. Jenny, a student who is a major in art is interested in Italian art as well as Chinese, will be free after school
at 4:30.
49. Tom will go to study in the USA for a master’s degree. He wants to have a full-time special training for
several months to improve his oral English.
50. Mark, a worker of an export company, needs to improve his writing and oral English. He can only go to the
training class after work every day.
46. Wendy A. 22325445
47 .Carol B. 3659 9988
48. Jenny C. 22342381
49. Tom D. 33569875
50. Mark E. 25545569
F. 5611
Ⅲ写作(共两节,满分40分)
第一节基础写作(共1小题，满分15分)
[写作内容]
根据下面地图及提示，用英语给某报社写一篇短文，介绍你的家乡揭阳。

揭阳市位于广东省东南部，素有“水上莲花”的美称；全市总人口590.54万; 历史悠久、见诸史载已有2，名胜古迹甚多，有特色鲜明的地方文化；交通运输便捷，自然、矿产资源比较丰富；改革开发以来，经济发展快，特别是“30亿”工程的实施，使得市容市貌发生了巨变（如：大型的榕江喷泉、文化广场）。

参考词汇：文化广场Cultural Square
美称laudatory title
[写作要求]
1.只能使用5个句子表达全部的内容；
2.将5个句子组织成连贯的短文；
3.可适当增加情节，使表达连贯。

[评分标准]
句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。

第二节读写任务(共1小题，满分25分)
阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

Increased College Enrollment
In recent years, there is a steady increase in college enrollment. To many high-school students, it's definitely
good news，for they would have better chance of receiving higher education.
You don't have to look very far to find out the advantages of the increased college enrollment. For one thing, it lessens the worries of both high school graduates and their parents. Besides，increased college enrollment can contribute to raise the educational level of our nation. What's more, increased college enrollment can provide more students with specialized knowledge, thus serving our development in a positive way.
On the other hand, we can not deny that there are some potential problems about increased college enrollment. To begin with, with the increased number of students, the shortage of teaching staff and facilities becomes clearly seen. Worst of all, increased college enrollment leads to increased competition in the job market.
It's not an easy task to tell whether the tendency should be encouraged. As to me, it's laudable to grant more students higher education. But a college degree is by no means a guarantee for a better job or future. To cast a promising career, we need a lot more abilities which we can not learn from college.
[写作内容]
1. 以约30个词概括短文的要点；
2. 然后用1写一篇文章, 包括一下要点：
1）高校扩招的益处：缓解了父母和高中生们的心理压力;提高全国教育水平;
培养更多有专长的人才。

2）扩招造成的一些问题：造成大学里师资和教学设施短缺;使就业市场竞争更加激烈。

3）我对大学扩招的看法
[写作要求]
1）文章可参照阅读材料的内容,但不要抄袭阅读材料中的句子；
2）不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；3）题目自定。

[评分标准] 概括准确, 语言规范, 内容合适, 篇章连贯。

参考答案
Ⅰ语言知识及应用（共两节，满分45分)
第一节完形填空(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)
1~15 DBCDD BBDAB ADCBC
1. D 本句的意思是“街道的两旁排列着很多各种各样的商店”，build的意思是“建造，修建”，design 的意思是“设计”，intend意思是“打算”，line是“沿……排列”的意思。

2. B varied是“变化多端”的意思，various为“各种各样的”，sorted意为“分类的”，mixed-up意为“困惑的，迷惘的，不适应社会的”。

本句意为“各种各样的商店”。

3. C 本句的意思是“除了各种各样的商店销售各种各样的商品之外，有些商店还提供服务”，apart from 意为“除此之外”，后必须接名词或动名词，however是连词“然而”的意思，in addition可单独使用，意为“除此之外”，as well用在句末。

4. D medical care意为“医疗护理”。

food是“食物”，cosmetic是“化妆品”，service是“服务”，根据上题意思，service一词放在这里最合适。

5. D 本句的意思是“在五十年代，情况发生了变化”，有转折的意思。

suddenly和abruptly都是“突然”的意思，contrarily指“相反地”，but是“但是”的意思,表转折。

6. B take place只有主动语态，故可排除C，而begin to后应接动词不定式，只有take place“发生”可用。

7. B be available to sb.为固定搭配，意为“对某人来说可用的，可得到的”，本句意为“顾客可用的停车场地”，故选B。

8. D 本句意为“商人们开始对城市界限以外的开阔地感兴趣”，out of表示“……的外面”而outside指“超过某一个界限，范围等”。

9. A 本句的意思是“购物中心是从聚集一些小的店铺开始的”，只有started as有此意。

10. B 本句意为“远离拥挤的市中心”, out of指“在……之外”，away from表示距离，“远离”，next to 指“靠近，下一个”，near是“近”的意思。

11. A 本句意为“被……所吸引”，surprise意为“使……惊奇”，delight意为“使……喜悦”，enjoy意为“欣赏,喜爱”。

12. D 本句意为“顾客从市区被吸引到城市以外的商业中心”，只有downtown“市区”符合此意。

13. C 本句意为“这些购物中心越来越大的名气反过来导致了更大，设备更好的商店的建成”。

distinction声望；fame卓越，好名声；popularity名气很大，知名度很高；liking喜爱，喜好。

故选C。

14. B 根据上题解释，in turn应为“依次”的意思，引申为“反过来”。

15. C 这里convenience与providing组成短语“提供方便，便利”，符合上下文义。

本句意为“商业街被变成了带有长椅、喷泉及户外娱乐的风景优美的公园”。

第二节语法填空(共10小题；每小题l.5分，满分l5分)
【答案与解析】本文讲述中国传统节日端午节的由来及其背后的故事。

16. has been marked。

由时间状语for thousands of years可知，句子谓语动词应用现在完成进行时，表示端午节一直以来都以吃粽子和赛龙珠的方式进行庆祝，而且将来也会如此，故填has been marked。

17. situated。

表示某地方位于何地时，用be situated in /on, 句中“situated…”相当于定语从句，“which was situated…”。

18. However。

前后两句是转折关系，而空格前后都有标点，故应填副词However。

19. Realizing。

因逻辑主语Qu与realize是主动关系，故应填Realizing。

unable。

由but可知，渔民未能救活他，故用able相反意思的unable。

21. who。

引导定语从句并在从句中作主语，先行词是The people of Chu，故应填who。

22. every。

根据常识，是指“每一”年。

23. them。

代替the mourners，在句中作宾语，故应填them。

24. before。

因“将它裹好、绑好”应是在“将粽子扔进河里”之前，才不会给河里的一种爬行动物偷吃，故应填介词before。

25. the。

因many / little / few 等词在后面有定语从句或不定式等成分修饰时，其前面用the表特指，故该处填the。

Ⅱ阅读(共两节，满分50分)
第一节阅读理解(共；每小题2分，满分40分)
A
【答案与解析】26—30 ABBAC
本文是一篇说明文，谈及微波炉可以使人暖和，人们不必浪费能量给墙壁和家具加热。

微波直接进入人的皮肤使人温暖，既安全又省能源。

在未来，微波炉也许还有其它的用途。

26. A。

细节理解题。

文章第二自然段说明微波炉可以使人暖和，不必浪费能量给墙壁和家具加热。

27. B。

细节理解题。

文章第二自然段说明微波直接进入人的皮肤使人温暖，既安全又省能源。

28. B。

细节理解题。

从“a satisfactory feeling of warmth occurs between 35 and 50mw./sq. cm.”
可知。

29. A 从第四自然段a motion detector would turn on the magnetron…可知答案为A。

30. C。

主旨大意题。

最后一自然段暗示了答案。

B
【答案与解析】31~35 DBCAD
本篇文章主要讲的是人类正改变着自然界的平衡。

31．D。

细节理解题。

根据文章第一段，A、B、C都是三项人类改变生态平衡事例，D项叙述的是事实，但不属于人类改变生态平衡事例。

32．B。

推理判断题。

第二自然段第二句给出答案：
33．C。

细节理解题。

第二自然段后半部分给出此答案。

34．A。

细节理解题。

第三自然段头两句给出此答案。

35．D。

主旨大意题。

文章的主题是人类正改变着自然界的平衡。

C
【答案与解析】36—40 ACBDA
本文是一篇议论文，阐述了幸福的获得这一话题，试图澄清人们在幸福问题上的一些误解。

36．A。

细节理解题。

本题要求学生判断单身汉拒绝结婚的主要原因。

依据文章第3段第1行“Ask a bachelor why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he is honest he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment”（……害怕作出对义务的承诺，即不愿承担义务）。

A项与
之等同，故正确。

37．C。

推理判断题。

依据文章第4自然段第1句“带有婴儿的父母要是能睡上一整晚觉或度一个三天的假日，那真是太幸运了。

在我认识的人中，不会有人用fun（好玩）来描述他们抚养孩子的感受”，似乎会认为作者的意图是B项（出力不讨好，毫无回报的事）或D项（不可避免的痛苦来源）。

实际上，作者真实想法应在第2句中体现：但是决定不生孩子的夫妻永远也体会不到看着孩子成长以及和孙子玩耍的那种乐趣、那种欣喜。

这种乐趣、欣喜实际就是一种回报。

所以选项C正确。

38．B。

推理判断题。

依据文章最后一句“And it liberates us from envy：we now understand that all those who are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.”说明：我们现在的这种理解就可免除嫉妒，那么反过来，嫉妒产生于我们的理解不当，即misunderstanding，故选项B正确。

39．D。

推理判断题。

依据文章第一自然段第1句“The way people hold to the belief that a fun-filled, pain free life equals happ iness actually reduces their chances of ever attaining real happiness”（人们坚持充满趣味、毫无痛苦的生活就等于幸福这一信条实际上减少了他们获得真正幸福的可能性）。

再依据文章最后一句“…all those who are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all”（……生活中总是有如此多的fun的人实际上也许一点都不幸福）。

可以看出要理解真正的幸福是什么就必须把fun和happiness区分开来。

因为两者绝不等同。

故选项D正确。

C项应该是回答“怎样才能获得真正的幸福”这一问题，且作者并没在文中明确提到获得快乐就必须在任何情况下都忍受痛苦。

40．A。

主旨大意题。

作者的意图出现在第一自然段最后一句：“But in fact，the opposite is true：more often than not things that lead to happiness involve some pain” （但事实上，导致你幸福的事情多半伴随着痛苦），故选项A符合题意。

D
【答案与解析】41—45 BCADB
C篇是一篇说明文，内容是有关科技发明成果的阐述。

41.B。

细节理解题。

根据文章第六自然段可推出B项是错误的。

42.C。

推理判断题。

在短文第二自然段中提到了Lecture Translation,在第三段中提到了prototype,在第五自然段中又提到了Muscle Translator,因而没有被提到的应该是C项。

43.A。

主旨大意题。

根据短文倒数第二自然段所述“The idea behind the university’s prototypes is to create ‘good enough’ bridges for cross-cultural exchanges that are becoming more common in the world.”其含义为：隐藏在雏型机背后的理念是为今后世界上越来越普通的跨文化交流搭建足够好的桥梁，由此可以推断出A项就是发
明翻译器的真正目的。

44.D。

推理判断题。

根据短文倒数第二自然段所述“This particular gadget, when fully developed...”，其含义
为“当这种特别的器械得以充分的改进时……”，可以推测出：目前这种器械尚在发展完善之中。

45.B。

推理判断题。

这篇文章是有关科技发明成果的阐述，根据常识，它极有可能会节选自科学杂志。

第二节信息匹配(共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分) 46—50 BFDCA
Ⅲ写作(共两节,满分40分)
第一节基础写作(共1小题，满分15分)
Located in the southeast of Guangdong Province, my hometown Jieyang is a beautiful city with the laudatory title “The Lotus on Water”. It has a population of 5,905,400 and the people here lead a happy life. With a recorded history of over 2,years, the ancient city has many famous historical spots and distinct local culture, which attract tourists from home and abroad. Thanks to the rich natural, mineral resources and convenient transportation, the economy has been developing quickly after the reform and opening up. Especially since “The Three Billion” project was carried out, our city has been taking on a completely new look and great changes have taken place, including the newly-born Great Rongjiang Fountain and Cultural Square that make our hometown more beautiful. 第二节读写任务(共1小题，满分25分)
Increased College Enrollment
The college enrollment has risen steadily over the past years, which acts as a way to cultivate more well-educated people to serve the society. However, people’s opinions on it are divided.
On the whole, increased college enrollment is just like a double-edged sword, which has both benefits and potential shortcomings.
People who are in favor of the increased enrollment rate subscribe to the view that it not only relieves the high pressure on parents and students to some extent, but is also a suitable tool to raise the educational level in our country. What’s more, it can also help to cultivate more young labors with specialties.
On the contrary, there are also some people who are opposed to this policy, because they fear that it will lead to the shortage of teaching staff and educational facilities. Worse still, increased enrollment rate will intensify the already-fierce competition in job market.
In my point of view, this tendency should be continued, as we need more capable people to contribute to the fast-growing economy. But in the meantime, the government and universities ought to invest more to guarantee the quality of education.。