【优质文档】市统测模拟试题三

新马高级中学2014届高三英语第一次市统测模拟试题三
第二部分英语知识运用(共两节，满分35分)
21. Everybody has ______ responsibility to save water, if future generations are to enjoy _____
similar standard of living to the one we enjoy now.
A. the; /
B. a; a
C. /; the
D. a; the
22. Scientists say human activity contributes to climate change, but they do not agree on the rate
_______ climate change may be developing.
A. with which
B. with that
C. at which
D. at that
23. Mary ______ all the housework, she dropped herself into the sofa, sighing with relief.
A. finished
B. had finished
C. having finished
D. finishing
24. Each member country WTO must ___________ its laws and regulations and compete on the
principle of fairness and cooperation.
A. submit to
B. cater to
C. correspond to
D. relate to
25. The detective, ______ to be reading a newspaper, glanced at the man_____ next to a woman.
A. pretending, seated
B. pretended, seated
C. pretending, seat
D. pretended, seating
26．It is wise to put milk on a shelf close to the bottom because it is especially _______ to temperature changes
A．flexible B．fundamental C．sensitive D．positive
27. —I can’t manage this Sunday. Another time , but not Sunday.
—Why_______ me ea rlier ? I’ve been looking forward to it.
A. hadn’t you told
B. don’t you tell
C. not to tell
D. didn’t you tell
28. Everyone doesn’t agree to the plan. Some support it while I’m one of ______ oppos
A. those who
B. who
C. those
D. that
29. No one in the department but Tom and I_________ that the director is going to resign.
A. know
B. am to know
C. knows
D. have known
30. ______ intelligence, you are no worse than others. It is your attitude that makes the greatest
difference.
A. Regardless of
B. In terms of
C. In case of
D. On top of
31. Fully ________ in looking after three children at home, she no longer has time to enjoy
various activities in the club.
A. attached
B. occupied
C. contributed
D. devoted
32. ---I had practiced my spoken English many times, but still failed in the oral test.
---Don’t be discouraged. , and you will surely pass it.
A. Make a bit more effort
B. To make a bit more effort
C. Making a bit more effort
D. If you make a bit more effort
33. there is no restriction on foreign entries at the film festival, those that win are in
the minority.
A. Unless
B. When
C. Where
D. While
34. ________ some teenagers d on’t realize is ________ difficult life can be after they get
addicted to drugs.
A. What; how
B. That; how
C. What; what a
D. That; what
35. ---He is a very hard-working student.
---________. As far as I know, he often burns the midnight oil.
A. You can say that again
B. Absolutely not
C. Heaven knows.
D. No way
第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
One effective way of destroying happiness is to look at something and focus on even the
（铺瓦的）ceiling and concentrating on the space where smallest fault. It’s like looking at the tiled
one tile is 36 .
37 I see is hair.” Once you’ve
Once I heard a bald man said, “whenever I enter a room
38 what your missing tile is, explore whether acquiring it will 39 make you happy. Then
do one of the three things: get it, replace it with a different 40 , or forget about it and 41
the tiles in your life that are not missing.
We all know people who have a relatively 42 life, yet are essentially unhappy while
people who have suffered a great deal but 43 remain happy.
The first 44 is gratitude. All happy people are 45 . Ungrateful people cannot be
happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to 46 , but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.
The second secret is 47 that happiness is a byproduct of something else. The most
obvious 48 are those pursuit that give our lives purpose — anything 49 studying
insects to playing baseball. The more passions we have, the more happiness we are 50 to experience.
Finally, the belief that something permanent goes beyond us and that our 51 has some
larger meaning can help us to feel happier. We 52 a spiritual faith, or a philosophy, it
should 53 this truth: if you choose to find the 54 in every situation, you will be blessed,
and if you choose to find the awful, you will be cursed. As with happiness itself, this is 55
your decision to make.
36. A、different B、missing C、short D、broken
37. A、nothing B、none C、all D、anything
38. A、determined B、predicted C、assumed D、imagined
39. A、completely B、naturally C、hopefully D、really
40. A、tile B、brick C、ceiling D、house
41. A、look on B、focus on C、count on D、rely on
42. A、peaceful B、difficult C、easy D、ordinary
43. A、certainly B、merely C、hardly D、generally
44. A、secret B、factor C、rule D、key
45. A、wealthy B、grateful C、proud D、generous
46. A、upset B、quarrel C、complain D、depress
47. A、admitting B、assuming C、proving D、realizing
48. A、sources B、results C、answers D、goals
49. A、among B、from C、through D、for
50. A、probable B、possible C、likely D、capable
51. A、value B、destination C、survival D、existence
52. A、need B、lack C、demand D、expect
53. A、involve B、include C、absorb D、mean
54. A、worst B、best C、positive D、negative
55. A、absolutely B、totally C、exactly D、largely
第三部分：阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
A
Pacing and Pausing
Sara tried to befriend her old friend Steve's new wife, but Betty never seemed to have anything to say. While Sara felt Betty didn't hold up her end of the conversation, Betty complained to Steve that Sara never gave her a chance to talk. The problem had to do with expectations about pacing and pausing.
Conversation is a turn-taking game. When our habits are similar, there's no problem. But if our habits are different, you may start to talk before I'm finished or fail to take your turn when I'm finished. That's what was happening with Betty and Sara.
It may not be coincidental that Betty, who expected relatively longer pauses between turns, is British, and Sara, who expected relatively shorter pauses, is American. Betty often felt interrupted by Sara. But Betty herself became an interrupter and found herself doing most of the talking when she met a visitor from Finland. And Sara had a hard time cutting in on some speakers from Latin America or Israel.
The general phenomenon, t hen, is that the small conversation techniques, like pacing and pausing, lead people to draw conclusions not about conversational style but about personality and abilities. These habitual differences are often the basis for dangerous stereotyping (思维定式). And these social phenomena can have very personal consequences. For example, a woman from the southwestern part of the US went to live in an eastern city to take up a job in personnel. When the Personnel Department got together for meetings, she kept searching for the right time to break in --- and never found it. Although back home she was considered outgoing and confident, in Washington she was viewed as shy and retiring. When she was evaluated at the end of the year, she was told to take a training course because of her inability to speak up.
That's why slight differences in conversational style --- tiny little things like microseconds of pause --- can have a great effect on one's life. The result in this case was a judgment of psychological problems --- even in the mind of the woman herself, who really wondered what was wrong with her and registered for assertiveness training.
56. What did Sara think of Betty when talking with her?
A. Betty was talkative.
B. Betty was an interrupter.
C. Betty did not take her turn.
D. Betty paid no attention to Sara.
57. According to the passage, who are likely to expect the shortest pauses between turns?
A. Americans.
B. Israelis.
C. The British.
D. The Finns.
58. We can learn from the passage that ______.
A. communication breakdown results from short pauses and fast pacing
B. women are unfavorably stereotyped in eastern cities of the US
C. one's inability to speak up is culturally determined sometimes
D. one should receive training to build up one's confidence
B
New technology links the world as never before. Our planet has shrunk. It’s now a village” where countries are only seconds away by fax or phone or satellite link. And, of course,
our ability to benefit from this high-tech communications equipment is greatly increased by
foreign language skills.
Deeply involved with this new technology is a kind of modern businesspeople who have a
growing respect for the economic value of doing business abroad. In modern markets, success
overseas often helps support domestic business efforts.
Overseas assignments are becoming increasingly important to advancement within executive
ranks. The executive stationed in another country no longer need fear being “out of si He or she can be sure that the overseas effort is central to the company’s plan for
of mind.”　
success, and that promotions often follow or accompany an assignment abroad. If an employee
can succeed in a difficult assignment overseas, superiors will have greater confidence in his or
her ability to manage back in the United States where cross-cultural considerations and foreign
language issues are becoming more and more common.
Thanks to a variety of relatively inexpensive communications devices with business applications, even small businesses in the United States are able to get into international markets.
English is still the international language of business. But there is an ever-growing need for
generally required to get a job
people who can speak another language. A second language isn’t
in business, but having language skills gives a candidate the edge when other qualifications
appear to be equal.
language has an opportunity to The employee posted abroad who speaks the country’s
fast-forward certain negotiations, and can have the cultural insight to know when it is better to
move more slowly. The employee at the home office who can communicate well with foreign customers over the telephone or by fax machine is an obvious asset to the firm.
59. With the increased use of high-tech communications equipment, businesspeople ________.
A. are eager to work overseas
B. have to get familiar with modern technology
C. are gaining more economic benefits from domestic operations
D. are attaching more importance to their overseas business
60. In this passage, “out of sight and out of mind” (Line 3, Para. 3) probably means ______
A. leaving all care and worry behind
B. being unable to think properly for lack of insight
C. being totally out of touch with business at home
D. missing opportunities for promotion when abroad
61. According to the passage, what is an important consideration of international corporations in
employing people today?
A. Ability to speak the customer’s language.
B. Connections with businesses overseas.
C. Technical know-how.
D. Business experience.
62. The advantage of employees having foreign language skills is that they can ________.
A. fast-forward their proposals to headquarters
B. better control the whole negotiation process
C. easily make friends with businesspeople abroad
D. easily find new approaches to meet market needs
C
When an ant dies, other ants take it out of the nest, often within an hour after its death. This
behavior interests scientists and they wonder how ants know for sure—and so soon—that another
ant is dead.
One scientist recently came up with a way to explain this ant behavior. Dong-Hwan Choe is
a biologist, a scientist who studies animals and plants. He found that ants have a chemical on the
outside of their bodies that signals to other ants, “I'm dead—take me away” when it But there's a question to answer: As we know, if an ant is dead, it stops moving. But when an
ant is sleeping or knocked unconscious, it is also not moving. However, other ants don't move the
living ant out of the nest. How do they know this ant is not dead? Choe found that ants have
I'm not dead
another chemical on their bodies, which tells nearby ants something like, “Wait—
yet” when it is not dead. Choe suspects that when an ant dies, the chemical that says, I'm
not dead yet” quickly goes away. When other ants detect the “dead” chemical without th dead yet” chemical, they move away the body.
To test his theory, Choe and his team put different chemicals on ants. When the scientists
used the “I'm dead” chemical, other ants quickly moved the treated ant away. When the scientists used the “Wait—I'm not dead yet” chemical, other ants left the treated ant alone. Choe believes
overrides the “dead” chemical when picked
this behavior shows that the “not dead yet” chemical
chemical fades away. Other
up by other ants. And that when an ant dies, the “not dead yet”　
nest.
nearby ants then detect the remaining “dead” chemical and remove the body from the Understanding this behavior can help scientists figure out how to stop ants from invading
new places and causing problems.
63. What is the function of the first paragraph?
A. Leading the following paragraphs.
B. Showing the main idea of the passage.
C. Introducing the background of the passage.
D. Giving a summary of the passage.
in the 64. Which of the following has the closest meaning to the underlined word “overrides”　
fourth paragraph?
A. is weaker than
B. is stronger than
C. is better than
D. is worse than
65. What can we learn from the passage?
A. Living ants can also be taken away when they are not moving.
B. When an ant dies, it can tell others using a certain chemical.
C. A living ant can pretend to be dead using a special chemical.
D. Ants often use chemicals to communicate with each other.
66. Which of the following descriptions about Dong-Hwan Choe is right?
A. Choe did this study in order to stop ants from invading new places.
B. Choe is a biologist who is only interested in animals, especially in ants.
C. Choe first came up with an idea to explain this ant behavior，and then did some tests to
prove his theory.
D. Choe did the research on this ant behavior on his own.
D
Each time I see a balloon, my mind flies back to a memory of when I was a six-year-old girl. It was a rainy Sunday and my father had recently died. I asked my mom if Dad had gone to heaven. "Yes, honey. Of course." she said.
"Can we write him a letter?"
She paused, the longest pause of my short life, and answered, "Yes."
My heart jumped. "How? Does the mailman go there?" I asked.
"No, but I have an idea." Mom drove to a party store and returned with a red balloon. I asked her what it was for.
"Just wait, honey. You'll see." Mom told me to write my letter. Eagerly, I got my favorite pen, and poured out my six-year-old heart in the form of blue ink. I wrote about my day, what I learned at school, how Mom was doing, and even about what happened in a story I had read. For a few minutes it was as if Dad were still alive. I gave the letter to Mom. She read it over, and a smile crossed her face.
She made a hole in the corner of the letter where she looped the balloon string. We went outside and she gave me the balloon. It was still raining.
"Okay, on the count of three, let go. One, two, three."
The balloon, carrying my letter, darted upward against the rain. We watched until it was swallowed by the mass of clouds.
Later I realized, like the balloon, that Dad had never let his sickness get him down. He was strong. No matter what he suffered, he'd persevere, dart up, and finally transcend this cold world and his sick body. He rose into sky and became something beautiful. I watched until the balloon disappeared into the gray and white and I prayed that his strength was hereditary. I prayed to be a balloon.
67．When the girl asked her mother if they could write to her father, her mother _________.
A．felt it hard to answer B．thought her a creative girl
C．believed it easy to do so D．found it easy to lie
68．When the girl was told that she could send a letter to her father, she _________.
A．jumped with joy B．became excited
C．started writing immediately D. was worried that it couldn't be delivered
69．In the eyes of the author, what was the rain like?
A．An incurable disease. B．An unforgettable memory.
C．The hard time her father had. D．The failures her father experienced.
70．What would be the best title for the passage?
A．An unforgettable experience B．The strong red balloon
C．Fly to paradise D．A great father
第四部分．任务型阅读 (共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)
请认真阅读下列短文，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。

Have you ever intended to be fully absorbed in your work but found yourself distracted by
e-mail, the Internet and other things throughout the day?
"People often lose their concentration when they are bored, of course, but also when they are engaged in challenging tasks," says Peter Bregman. "They sometimes have a feeling to escape from what's difficult or boring, so they jump out," he says. The part of the brain devoted to attention is connected to the brain's emotional center. Any strong emotion—quarrels with colleagues, problems at home—can interrupt our attention. Studies over the last decade have shown that too much work to do at a time can easily lead to distraction.
Refocusing is hard for many people. Robert Epstein suggests the following, "Stop and listen to music for a few minutes. Go for a short walk or take a deep breath, where you breathe in deeply, count to five slowly, hold it and breathe out very slowly." This can "blow out all the tension and the unwanted in your mind to restore your focus."
Take more control by structuring your time and becoming more aware of your behaviors. "Setting the phone alarm to go off every hour is my way of creating awareness," Mr. Bregman says," You have to inform yourself that you've lost focus in order to do something about it." Starting the day with a to-do list is important, such as when to eat, when to go to the gym or take a walk. But if it's overly ambitious, you will put yourself in a state of anxiety, which makes it hard for the brain to concentrate. "Choosing three or four things as your priority for the day allows your brain to settle down and focus," he says.
Topic
How to become more (71) ________ on the work? (72)_______ of Getting
distracted
▲People tend to get away from things that they're (73) _____ up with.▲Strong (74) _________ affect the brain' s part for attention.▲People get distracted easi ly if (75) __________ multitasks at a time. (76) ______ of strong emotions ▲having a (77) ___________ with a colleague.
▲meeting with problems at home
Tips on holding attention ▲Stop working to restore your focus by (78) _______ your breath and
try different relaxing things. ▲(79) _________ your time effectively and create awareness
o f your behaviors.
▲Make a to-do list at the beginning of a working day.
▲Focus on 3 or 4 things a nd get them done (80) _______ for the day.
第五部分书面表达(满分25分)
下面这幅漫画展现了人生的一个
道理，请根据你对这幅漫画的理解
用英语写一篇短文．
你的短文应包含以下内容：
1.描述图片内容，如图中人物的行
为和心情等：
2.揭示图画所要表达的人生哲理；
3.结合自身实际，谈谈这一漫画给
你的启示。

注意：
1.词数150左右。

开头已经写好，
不计入总词数．
2.作文中不得提及考生所在学校和本人姓名。

3.参考词汇：挖土cut earth 钻石diamond
Many people fail in life because they do not realize how close they are to success when they give up.
In this picture, we can see _______________
_____________________。