广东省茂名市实验中学2013届高三下学期模拟(二)测试英语试题(详解).pdf

I. 语言知识应用 （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、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

Dad loved children. And he always wanted a ____1______ family. Eventually, he got what he wanted with twelve children in the family. Without fail, he would show us off to visitors. Once, Dad _____2_____ presented the first three children in the family, Ann, Mary and Ernestine, to some visitors. Then he picked up a fourth child, and said, "And this is our _____3_____ model, complete with all the improvements. And don't think that this is all; we are _____4_____ the 1953 model some time next month." But what he _____5_____ most was taking us out for a drive. On one occasion a man in a village we were passing through shouted _____6_____ that he had seen eleven people in our car, not _____7_____ Mum and Dad. _____8_____, Dad called out over his shoulder, "You _____9_____ the second baby up from the front here, Mister." Another time, Dad told us this joke, though we were not sure then whether he was telling us the____10_____. Mum, who was a psychologist (心理学家), once went to give a lecture and left Dad in charge of the _____11_____. When Mum returned, she asked him if everything had been OK. He said everything was fine _____12_____ one of the children had been taught a lesson because he had been _____13_____. When he pointed at the child that had been _____14_____, Mum looked at him calmly and said, "That's not one of ours, dear. He _____15_____ next door." 1. A. richB. lovelyC. closeD. large 2. A. surprisinglyB. nervouslyC. kindlyD. proudly 3. A. dearestB. smallestC. latestD. youngest 4. A. orderingB. sellingC. expectingD. improving 5. A. hatedB. enjoyedC. caredD. hoped 6. A. crazilyB. excitedlyC. curiouslyD. directly 7. A. countingB. namingC. showingD. reaching 8. A. ImmediatelyB. CarefullyC. AngrilyD. Easily 9. A. sawB. missedC. forgetD. left 10. A. truthB. storyC. adventureD. accident 11. A. lectureB. houseC. officeD. activity 12. A. even ifB. apart fromC. so thatD. except that 13. A. troublesomeB. carelessC. activeD. quiet 14. A. foundB. caughtC. punishedD. wounded 15. A. goes toB. belongs toC. worksD. plays 第二节 语法填空 (共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15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l6-25的相应位置上。

I was always told that the three Ps, patience, positive thinking and perseverance, were a sure path 16______success.But this advice does not always work as planned. My high school maths exam is one example. The exam, 17______was originally to be held in our classroom, 18_______(change) to the library at the last minute. This, 19______, didn’t bother me because maths had always been my strongest subject. I patiently walked to the library, took my seat and did some deep breathing to help relax20_____. But my mood changed quickly when I saw the first question. I had no idea how to do it. I tried to stay 21_______(positive) and persevered 22______I finally found the solution. With the problem23_______(solve),I felt proud of my achievement.24________(fortunate),I then noticed that I had just 10 minutes left 25______ (complete) the rest. II. 阅读 (共两节，满分50分) 第—节 阅读理解(共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分) 阅读下列短文，从26—45 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。

A My newly-rented small apartment was far away from the centre of London and it was becoming essential for me to find a job, so finally I spent a whole morning getting to town and putting my name down to be considered by London Transport for a job on the underground. They were looking for guards, not drivers. This suited me. I couldn’t drive a car but thought that I could probably guard a train, and perhaps continue to write my poems between stations. The writers Keats and Chekhov had been doctors. T.S. Eliot had worked in a bank and Wallace Stevens for an insurance company. I’d be a subway guard. I could see myself being cheerful, useful, a good man in a crisis. Obviously I’d be overqualified but I was willing to forget about that in return for a steady income and travel privileges — those being particularly welcome to someone living a long way from the city centre. The next day I sat down, with almost a hundred other candidates, for the intelligence test. I must have done all right because after about half an hour’s wait I was sent into another room for a psychological test. This time there were only about fifty candidates. The interviewer sat at a desk. Candidates were signaled forward to occupy the seat opposite him when the previous occupant had been dismissed, after a greater or shorter time. Obviously the long interviews were the more successful ones. Some of the interviews were as short as five minutes. Mine was the only one that lasted a minute and a half. I can remember the questions now: “Why did you leave your last job?” “Why did you leave your job before that?” “And the one before that?” I can’t recall my answers, except that they were short at first and grew progressively shorter. His closing statement, I thought, revealed a lack of sensitivity which helped to explain why as a psychologist, he had risen no higher than the underground railway.“You’ve failed the psychological test and we are unable to offer you a position.” Failing to get that job was my low point. Or so I thought, believing that the work was easy. Actually, such jobs — being a postman is another one I still desire — demand exactly the sort of elementary yet responsible awareness that the habitual dreamer is least qualified to give. But I wasstill far short of full self-understanding. I was also short of cash. 26．The writer applied for the job chiefly because _________. A．he wanted to work in the centre of London B．he could no longer afford to live without one C．he was not interested in any other available job D．he had received some suitable training 27．The writer thought he was overqualified for the job because _________. A．he often traveled undergroundB．he had written many poems C．he could deal with difficult situations D．he had worked in a company 28．The length of his interview meant that _________. A．he was not going to be offered the job B．he had not done well in the intelligence test C．he did not like the interviewer at all D．he had little work experience to talk about 29．What does the writer realize now that he did not realize then? A．How unpleasant ordinary jobs can be. B．How difficult it is to be a poet. C．How unsuitable he was for the job.D．How badly he did in the interview. 30．What’s the writer’s opinion of the psychologist?A. He was very aggressive（有进取心的）.B. He was unhappy with his job.C. He was quite inefficient.D. He was rather unsympathetic. B Napoleon Bonaparte died on May 5, 1821, on the island of St. Helena off the coast of Africa. He was 51 years old at the time. When doctors examined Napoleon's body, they said that the former emperor of France had died from cancer of the stomach. That was the cause of death recorded in the official report. However, other doctors disagreed. One doctor who was present during the examination of the body saidthat Napoleon died of hepatitis（肝炎）. Other historians and medical experts have suggested that Napoleon died of syphilis（梅毒）, tuberculosis（肺结核）, or perhaps malaria. Now, after careful research, a British chemist thinks that Napoleon might have been poisoned -- not by a person, but by hiswallpaper. Napoleon was sent to the island of St. Helena in 1815 after he lost the battle of Waterloo. He was a prisoner on the island. Although he had servants to attend to him, he had to live in one small building. St. Helena is a very wet island, so the walls of the building were always covered with mold. Napoleon became ill from spending too much time inside his house. Almost constantly he had a fever, chills, and felt sick to his stomach. He often felt pain in his shoulders and in his side. His skin turned yellow. He got frequent headaches, and he would become dizzy and vomit. None of the medicine that the doctors gave Napoleon seemed to help. They were not sure what was the matter. Finally, Napoleon was too weak to leave the house. One night, while he was sleeping, he went into a coma （昏迷）and died. Many doctors who later reviewed the reports of Napoleon's illness found that the symptoms did not show a man who suffered from stomach cancer. It seemed obvious that Napoleon had died from some other cause. In 1961, a Swedish doctor examined some of Napoleon’s hair and found a high level of arsenic（砒霜）, a chemical poison. Was Napoleon murdered? It is doubtful. Arsenic was used in many types of medicine during Napoleon’s time, so he might have taken the arsenic as a cure for his illness. Then, in 1982, Dr. David Jones from England began to look into the mystery and suggested that Napoleon might have breathed in arsenic which was in the air of his house. In the 1700s and 1800s, arsenic was used to make a kind of green paint used on cloth and wallpaper. If the paint was used on a wet wall, the arsenic would go into the air. A person in the room might breathe that air. After studying the wallpaper in the room where Napoleon died, Dr. Jones found high levels of arsenic in the green paint on the walls. 31. The passage says that . A. a British doctor thinks he has found the cause of Napoleon's death B. many doctors have tried to guess the cause of Napoleon's death C. Napoleon could have died from poison D. all of the above 32. Why did Napoleon live on St. Helena?A. He owned the island.B. He was a prisoner there.C. His family lived there.D. He liked the island. 33. Napoleon suffered from the following symptoms except __________.A. chillsB. feverC. dizzinessD. bleeding 34. The official report said that Napoleon died of____________.A. cancerB. a comaC. moldD. poison 35. According to Dr. Jones, how did the arsenic probably get into Napoleon's body?A. He ate it.B. He breathed it in.C. He touched it.D. He drank it. C One reaction to all the concern about tropical deforestation is a blank stare that asks the question, "Since I don't live there, what does it have to do with me?" The answer is that your way of life, wherever you live in the world, is tied to the tropics in many ways. If you live in a house, wash your hair, eat fruits and vegetables, drink soda, or drive a car, you can be certain that you are affected by the loss of tropical forests. Biologically, we are losing the richest regions on earth when, each minute, a piece of tropical forest, the size of ten city blocks, disappears. As many as five million species of plants, animals, and insects (40 to 50 percent of all living things) live there, and are being lost faster than they can be found and described. Their loss is immeasurable. Take rubber for example. For many uses, only natural rubber from trees will do. Synthetics are not good enough. Today over half the world's commercial rubber is produced in Malaysia and Indonesia, while the Amazon's rubber industry produces much of the world's four million tons. And rubber is an important material in making gloves, balloons, footwear and many sporting goods. Thousands of other tropical plants are valuable for their industrial use. Many scientists strongly believe that deforestation contributes to the greenhouse effect -- orheating of the earth from increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. As we destroy forests, we lose their ability to change carbon dioxide into oxygen. Carbon dioxide levels could double within the next half-century, warming the earth by as much as 4.5 degrees. The result? A partial melt-down of polar ice caps, raising sea levels as much as 24 feet; even 15 feet could threaten anyone living within 35 miles of the coast. Unbelievable? Maybe. But scientists warn that by the time we realise the severe effects of tropical deforestation, it will be 20 years too late. Can tropical deforestation affect our everyday lives? Now, you should have got the answer. 36. The underlined word "synthetics" probably means .A. natural rubberB. tropical materialsC. man-made materialD. commercial rubber 37. In the last paragraph the author tries to . A. tell people how to avoid the tropical deforestation B. persuade people to buy something synthetic C. show us how important it is to protect the tropical forests D. let people realise the effect of tropical deforestation 38. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true? A. The forests are losing their function in turning carbon dioxide into oxygen. B. Many of our daily uses are related to the tropical forests. C. Tropical plants can be used to make industrial products. D. High carbon dioxide levels will make the earth warmer. 39. The author's attitude towards the tropical deforestation is .A. puzzlingB. coldC. supportingD. opposed 40. Which of the following might be the best title for the passage?A. Tropical ForestsB. the value of Tropical ForestsC. Tropical Forests and Our LifeD. The Greenhouse Effects W D China has recently been faced with serious issues of product safety. In Panama, it is said that medicine made with a poisonous chemical sickened some people. A Chinese company had identified it as diethylamide glycol （ [化]乙二醇）, a low cost substitute commonly used in automobile antifreeze（防冻剂）. Some countries have banned Chinese-made toothpaste containing diethylamide glycol. China has nowtold companies to discontinue its use, even though it says the toothpaste is safe. Another industrial chemical, melamine, was found in wheat flour used to make pet food in North America. Thousands of dogs and cats became sick. The United States has restricted some imports of Chinese seafood because they contained banned substance. And questions have been raised about other products, including children’s toys covered with lead paint. Chinese officials promised to provide the European Union, the biggest trading partner, with detailed reports on enforcement efforts against unsafe goods. Meglena Kuneva, commissioner (理事) for consumer protection of the European Union said China should have kept its promise. China recently closed three companies linked to the Panama and the pet food scare. And it dismissed the former head of its food and drug administration. He was found guilty of corruption (腐败) for approving unsafe drugs. This week, a conference of the State Council approved a proposed special measure on the supervision of food safety. The Xinhua News Agency said it calls for stronger controls over producers, greater responsibilities for government and more serious punishment for illegal activities. But Chinese officials have accused some foreign media of overstating problems with goods made in China. They say food imports from the United States also fail inspection sometimes. Next Week, American and Chinese food safety officials are planning to hold 5 days of meetings in Beijing to discusscooperation. 41．How many cases with safety problems are mentioned in the passage? A．Six B．Five C．Four D．Three 42．How was Panama case dealt with afterwards? A．Three companies linked to it were closed down. B．The former head of food and drug administration was removed from his position. C．More serious punishment was conducted for leaders linked to it. D．Both A and B. 43．We can infer the followings except that ________. A．Chinese- made toothpaste is safe B．the safety of “made in China” is doubted C．there are safety problems with more Chinese products D．44．The passage is mainly about________. A．China is facing product safety problems B．more controls are taken of Chinese goods C．overstated problems with Chinese goods D．China is losing its trade partners 45．What does “it” refers to in the last but one paragraph? A．China B．The European Union C．Chinese officials D．The Chinese company 第二节: 信息匹配 (共5小题, 每小题2分, 满分10分) 请阅读下列应用文及其相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。