全国普通高等学校招生统一考试英语模拟试卷

全国普通高等学校招生统一考试
上海英语模拟试卷
Listening Comprehension
Section A
Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the question will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.
1. A. Uninterested. B.Favorable. C. Vague D. Changeable.
2. A. Buy a new TV. B. Have the TV repaired.
C. Return the TV to the shop.
D. Find out why the TV doesn’t work.
3. A. The woman should first make sure of her goal.
B. The woman may not be doing what is worth doing.
C. The woman has no right to question his suggestions.
D. The woman needs to turn to somebody else for advice.
4. A. Jane wasn't present at the meeting.
B. The man reminded Jane of the meeting.
C. The woman forgot to tell Jane about the meeting.
D. The man and the woman regretted having Jane at the meeting.
5. A. In a museum. B. In a booking office.
C. In a travel agency.
D. In an electronic appliances store.
6. A. She has some of her artwork displayed in a museum.
B. She does a lot of part-time work in museums.
C. She isn't really interested in art museums.
D. She has a large art collection.
7. A. She saw Becky recently. B. Becky has been away for a week.
C. Becky often goes to the market with her.
D. She's only known Becky for a short time.
8. A. It's hard to know how severe the winter will be.
B. She can't wait for the winter to arrive.
C. Down jackets are now on sale.
D. She needs a warm jacket.
9. A. He doesn't like to go out on dates.
B. He doesn't want to reveal Tom's birth date.
C. He has trouble remembering when things happen.
D. He usually forgets to meet people for appointments.
10. A. The paper is already long enough.
B. The information may be inaccurate.
C. She'l1 find the reference book for the man.
D. The man's ideas are good enough to be published.
Section B
Directions: In Section B, you will hear several short passages and longer conversation(s), and you will be asked several questions on each of the passages and the conversation(s).The passages and the conversations will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.
Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.
11. A. Barack Obama. B. Shakira. C. Brad Pit D. Kate Middleton.
12. A. He once wrote books for his daughters.
B. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
C. He could speak six languages.
D. He was an outstanding artist.
13. A. Famous people's skills. B. Politicians' achievements.
C. A programme named ‘Fabulous facts'.
D. Charities sponsored by pop stars.
Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.
14. A. Help locate objects accurately.
B. Remind the user of the weather.
C. Tell the user whether a specified item is close.
D. Charge the light when its battery has run down.
15. A. Its computer chips. B. Its sensors.
C. Its functions.
D. Its material
16. A. They can both be put together according to the user's needs.
B. They can both inform users of something like directions.
C. They are both based on computerized equipment.
D. They both attract children and adults as well.
Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.
17. A. ATV host. B. A company manager
C. A school teacher.
D. A fashion designer.
18. A. Unique. B. New. C. Usual. D. Unavailable.
19. A. It uses materials collected from the rubbish.
B. It is intended to protect the environment.
C. It will take many years to be accepted.
D. It originates in India and Japan.
20. A. Teach themselves about fashion. B. Find a job in related companies.
C. Learn much at school.
D. Go to New York.
II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A
Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
Blind Tom
In 1850 an American lawyer, James N. Bethune, bought a slave to work in his home. The slave, a woman, had a small child (21) ___________ (name) Tom, who was blind and autistic (自闭的).
One day, Bethune was walking around his garden (22) ___________ he heard music coming from the house. He went inside (23) ___________ (investigate) and found young Tom playing on the family piano. Bethune realized that the boy, who was only four, had special abilities. He hired a band of musicians to come to the house and play in front of him. Tome reproduced perfectly the music he had heard. This confirmed Bethune’s suspicion (24) ___________ Tom had the ability to memorise and repeat pieces of music after (25) ___________ (hear) them just once.
In 1857 “Blind Tom”, as he was call ed from them on, took part in his public performance. The reviews were so good that Bethune took him (26) ___________ a tour of the US. Three years later, Blind Tom was invited to the White House, (27) ___________ he performed for the president. Over the next forty years, Tom performed shows all over the US, as well as visiting Canada, the UK and several South American countries. The concerts were a mixture of classical music and (28) ___________ own compositions. They also (29)
___________ (feature) a section called the “challenge” when members of the audience played a piece of music on the piano which Tom then (30) ______ _____ reproduce. He never failed. Blind Tom died in 1908.
Section B
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. approach
B. commercially
C. continuous
D. domestic
E. heavily
F. novel
G. previous
H. fund
I. scene I. speech K. surprise
Where’s the soap?
It’s funny how TV programmes don’t always live up to your expectations. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve turned on the ‘news’, only to be told who the winner of a talent show is or what a celebrity has been wearing. Or the number of ‘comedies’ which didn’t make me laugh. So it comes as no31 that rarely does a ‘soap opera’ contain soap or singing, let alone classical singing. So, where is the soap?
In 1930, the manager of a Chicago radio station managed to 32 a detergent company in order to get sponsorship for a daily, fifteen-minute drama about a woman who left her job as a 33 teacher to work in radio. This was to become Painted Dreams, a serial (系列剧) considered to be the first soap opera. The format was so popular that by 1940, radio soap operas made up 90% of 34 sponsored daytime radio. The word ‘soap’comes from the fact that these programmes were sponsored (and sometimes even produced) by companies which produced 35 cleaning products. They were aimed at housewives, who at that time would be at home.
All soap operas were defined by the fact that their storylines are 36 . Several plots often run at the same time, and each episode (集) usually ends with a ‘cliffhanger’, an open ending designed to make people want to watch or listen to the next episodes.
In the Americas, soap operas tend to focus on characters with wealthy lifestyles, whereas in the UK and Australia, they tend to be based on the lives of working class people. In both cases, storylines are based around family life, relationships, moral issues and sometimes topical issues. Romance and secret relationships feature 37 , and these can be compared to those of the old style paperback romance 38 . Plots can often move into weird areas, such as in an episode of US soap Dallas, where in order to bring back a ‘dead’ character, it was shown that a(n) 39 season had all been a dream of one of the characters. Perhaps not as strange as an Australian soap which had one 40 showing a male dog dreaming about the female dog from next door!
III. Reading Comprehension
Section A
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
Instead of cruising in on a hoverboard, I rode my bike to the office today. The bicycle was invented in the 19th century. Instead of taking a pill for breakfast, I had a bacon roll, cooked using gas. Science fiction has
41 to us.
Making predictions is tricky, especially about the future, as physicist Niels Bohr joked. In science fiction, you can’t escape that42 , though. Since its birth in the 19th century, writers have 43 imagined the things to come: devices that humankind will invent to make life easier. But in so many instances, those promises have not come to pass. The biggest 44 are in travel-jet packs, hoverboards and flying cars are yet to fill the skies. Air travel has become significantly cheaper and wide-reaching, but only using distinctly
20th-century technology: commercial aeroplanes are much the same as they were 50 years ago.
45 is what science fiction frequently delivers, but its arrival in the real world has been unpredictable. Domestic robots with a degree of intelligence are yet to 46 , though robotic vacuum cleaners are commercially available-even if they are fairly hopeless. Video calls have now arrived-sort of-but conferencing on Skype is still dissatisfying. In mobiles, video call technology is now available, so when your dad rings to update yo u on his vegetable patch, he’ll be able to47 your look of boredom.
The truth is that we quickly 48 the astonishment of invention: our wonderment is soon replaced with the feeling of nothing new. We should try to stay in that period of 49 . It is astonishing that the contents of every book ever written can be stored in a small box. Or that you can carry 10,000 albums on an object kept in your pocket. Or that almost all the information in the world can be accessed almost anywhere at any time. All these 50 are dependent on the emergence of the microchip and its place in computers. Yet sci-fi didn’t51 the dominance of the computer in running our lives.
But the real area where 52 far outstrips predictions is medicine. Sure, fiction would describe humans as ‘disease-free’ but without going into detail. “Disease-free” humans are still absent, but the progress made in 53 life is breathtaking. With relative ease, we can sequence anyone’s genome (基因组), giving a read-out of our entire genetic code. This means we can find out the underlying genetic cause of thousands of diseases in minutes.
Photosensitive implants now exist that can replace damaged cells in the retina (视网膜) and can thus 54 sight to the blind. While the inventions of science fiction can show great ideas we’d like to happen, nothing 55 the inventiveness of people in the real world.
41. A. turned B. lied C. objected D. talked
42. A. opportunity B. challenge C. imagination D. conflict
43. A. hesitantly B. critically C. temporarily D. tirelessly
44. A. disappointments B. advancements C. enjoyments D. experiments
45. A. Modernization B. Exploration C. Automation D. Transportation
46. A. materialize B. identify C. honor D. liberate
47. A. imagine B. feel C. see D. ignore
48. A. arouse B. discover C. forget D. evaluate
49. A. frustration B. amazement C. boredom D. limitation
50. A. modes B. worries C. potentials D. actions
51. A. predict B. overlook C. motivate D. prevent
52. A. quality B. obstacle C. passion D. reality
53. A. maintaining B. creating C. researching D. encountering
54. A. show B. lend C. restore D. label
55. A. guarantees B. overestimates C. releases D. outperforms
Section B
Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.
(A)
People always regret asking me and my wife how we got together. It’s a long story, involving other relationships and several countries, and to be honest, it’s not that interesting, so I’ll spare you the details. We were at a restaurant in Tuscany on our summer holiday last year though, when we met another English couple who had a far more interesting story than us. Lynn and Andy had actually met online before they got together, or at least they thought they had. After a few casual conversations through an online dating agency, they decide to meet for real. Lynn arrived at the restaurant first, and shortly after was approached by Andy, who though she was someone else. It turns out they’d both arranged to meet different people, but liked to look of ea ch other, and that was that!
And they’re not alone. It seems there are all sorts of places you might meet that special someone. Lukas met Sofie for the first time when, he crashed into her car-on his bicycle. ‘It was raining and I was coming downhill reall y fast, so I couldn’t really see where I was going. Sofie opened her car door and I went straight into it, and off my bike,’ explains Lukas. ‘I was unconscious for a few seconds, and when I came round there was this beautiful young woman asking me “Are you OK?” Well, after that, she went to the hospital with me and was just really kind, really caring, and we hit it off.’
Every cloud has a silver lining, so they say, and Nick McKiddie would most likely agree. He was leaving the office late one night when he got robbed by a group of young men. He wasn’t hurt, but they stole his phone and wallet, so he called the police. Susan Harris, a young police officer at the time, attended the call. Nice explains, ‘I don’t know whether I was in shock because of what had h appened, but I think it was love at first
sight. I would never usually be so confident, but I just asked if she wanted to go for a drink sometime, and to my surprise, she said yes!’ Nick and Susan got married last December.
Animals don’t have the same soci al inhibitions as humans do, and this was certainly the case when Ri took her dog, Ben, to the local dog park. ‘As soon as I took his head off, he ran straight to another dog on the other side of the park, and started getting very friendly indeed,’ she laughs. ‘I actually had to pull him away, and that was when I met Ben, the other dog’s owner. We had a good laugh about it all, especially when we realized he had the same name as my dog. We became friends after that, and well, the rest is history.’
56. According to the passage, Lynn and Andy .
A. first met in a restaurant in Tuscany
B. regretted talking to each other online
C. were arranged to see other people at first
D. preferred casual conversations to real meeting
57. got to know each other due to an accident.
A. The author and his wife
B. Lukas and Sofie
C. Nick and Susan
D. Ri and Ben
58. By “every cloud has a silver lining” (in paragraph 3), the author means that.
A. every day is good beginning
B. good luck comes with misfortunes
C. what you value matters in your life
D. people do not always behave as usual
59. What is the passage mainly about?
A. The methods of joining animals and us.
B. The place where people get together.
C. The weird ways people meet.
D. The special cases of dating.
(B)
Memory expert Professor Jemima Gryaznov answers your most common questions about memory.
1.
We remember the things that have strong connections in our mind, especially emotional connections. Childhood memories are often very emotional: we experience things for the first time so we have strong feeling of fear or excitement. Retelling events also helps to fix them in our memories and interesting or funny stories from our childhood are often told again and again!
2. Do some people really have a photographic memory?
It is well know that some people have an extraordinary memory. Daniel Tammet, for example, can remember the first 22,500 digits of pi and Stephen Wiltshire can draw a detailed picture of a city from memory after flying over it in a helicopter. However, neither Daniel nor Stephen have a photographic memory. They are good at remembering particular things for a limited time. A person with a photographic memory could remember every detail of a picture, a book or an event many years later. No one has yet proved that they have a photographic memory in a scientific test.
3. Is computer memory better than human memory?
That depends on what you mean by ‘better’! Information in a compu ter is stored in separate pieces. Human memory is stored in a different way. Each piece of information is connected to many other pieces. That’s why a particular smell can bring back memories of a holiday or a person. The problem with human memory is that it is messy and not very accurate. The problem with computer memory is that it can’t make connections between pieces of information-it isn’t creative.
4. I’m 24. Is my memory getting worse?
Not yet, but it will do soon. Our memory reaches its full power at the age of 25. At that point we can remember up to 200 pieces of information a second. After this age, however, the brain starts to get smaller. By the age of 40 we are losing 10,000 brain cells every day. By middle age our memory is significantly worse than when we were young.
5. Is it possible to remember early childhood?
Scientists used to believe that it was impossible to remember very early childhood, but recent research shows that babies are much cleverer than we previously thought. Some people really can remember being a baby. Other, however, remember nothing before the age of five or even ten!
60. Which of the following questions best fits the blank in the passage?
A. What can we do to improve our memory as we grow older?
B. Can childhood memories help us remember what has happened recently?
C. How do we establish emotional connections with our childhood experiences?
D. Why can I remember events in my childhood but not what happened last week?
61. What can we learn about photographic memory?
A. There is no reliable evidence that it exists.
B. It enables us to remember details in a limited time.
C. We cannot acquire it without specialized training.
D. Only some of us can benefit from it.
62. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?
A. Information is separately stored in human memory.
B. Human memory declines as the brain gets smaller.
C. Computer memory is better than human memory from any perspective.
D. Whether we can remember our early childhood needs more scientific research.
(C)
Over the last 15 years, digital communication has brought in more changes than the printing press did in 1570. And those most likely to use them in this world are teenagers, whose brains appear to have an extraordinary capacity to adapt to the world around them, according to Dr Jay Giedd, an adolescent brain expert.
We are now discovering that, as a species, our brains during the teenage years are still flexible and capable of adapting. Having a more flexible brain means that certain parts of it, such as impulse control and the ability to make long-term decisions, haven’t developed yet, which may also explain why, unlike some of our ancestors, we spend an extended period living under the protection of our parents rather than leaving home at the age of 12 or 13.
This also means that the teenage brain can adapt to new technology, enabling teenagers to keep up with the increasing pace of digital technology and giving them an advantage when it comes to multitasking.
In the US, on average teenagers spend 8.5 hours a day using computers, mobiles, and other devices to learn, interact, and play. This increases to 11.5 hours if you include all of the multitasking that goes on, such as talking on the phone while you’re watching TV. As they stare at these screens, they’re taking in and sorting through an incredible amount of information.
There are concerns about how social media id affecting the way in which the brain learns to socialize, as one of the most important skills that we learn as children is how to make friends and interact with people around us. Geidd says that a lot of what goes on inside our brains is social. Social interactions are now being changed by technology-you could have hundreds of friends, all of whom are real people that you interact with and scientists aren’t sure whether we’ll be able to develop the same skills using social media.
There is an advantage of the growing digital trend: YouTube indicates that teenagers all over the world are watching the same video clips and laughing at the same jokes, indicating that they are more global-minded than teenagers in the past.
They may be keen on texting their friends and posting updates on social media sites, but teenagers today are probably going to have access to technology and as a result social and educational opportunities that anyone with a less flexible brain may have trouble imagining. However, there is a cut-off point, and by the age of 30, our brains have become more set in their ways, making it harder for us adapt and cope with new technologies.
63. What does “this” (in paragraph 3) refer to?
A. Teenagers’ brains are different from ancestors’.
B. Teenagers’ brains haven’t fully developed.
C. Teenagers still need parents’ protection.
D. Teenagers are more flexible than adults.
64. According to the passage, the growing digital trend does good to .
A. the development of globalization
B. the flexibility of teenagers’ brains
C. people’s access to technology
D. children’s ability to interact with others
65. What can be inferred from the passage?
A. Ways to socialize haven’t changed despite the emergence of social media.
B. Adolescents’ brains have lost some abilities necessary for survival.
C. Being keen on digital communication does more harm than good.
D. Many educational opportunities now come with technology.
66. Which of the following might be the best title if the passage?
A. Teenage Brains in the Digital World
B. Digitalization: An Unavoidable Trend
C. The Future of the Digital Communication
D. How Parents Can Help Kids in the Digital Age
Section C
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the sentences given below. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.
A. They have to be king of the road and everybody else on the road is an idiot.
B. So what’s the point of these jokes?
C. Interestingly, one of their main concerns is about women as passengers.
D. There is no doubt that women are considered better passengers than men.
E. According to the report, women score more highly than men on almost all counts.
F. Why do we laugh at these jokes?
Driving each other crazy
There’s a well-known joke: A woman is driving down a motorway and her husband phones her on her mobile. ‘Darling, be careful!’ he screams, ‘I’ve just heard there’s a car driving the wrong way on the motorway near where you are.’ ‘It’s not just one car,’ she says, ‘there are hundreds of them!’
And here’s another one: a man is driving his daughter and they are stuck in traffic. The little girl says, ‘I hav e a question.’ ‘What is it?’ asks her father. ‘When you’re driving, are YOU ever the stupid idiot?’
67 Is it because we recognize some truth in them? A lot of people seem to think that men and women do display quite different characteristics when it comes to driving, and in general, both male and female drivers tend to be quite critical of the opposite sex.
‘Men are too confident in their own abilities. They never listen, they never need a map. They’re always sure they know the way,’ says Cathy, whose husband rarely lets her drive the car. ‘They tend to drive too close to the car in front and they’re incredibly impatient. If there’s a car in front, they have to pass it even if it doesn’t make a difference to their overall speed. I think it’s some sort of territorial thing. 68 ’.
What do men think about women? 69 ‘Women passengers can’t keep quiet,’ says Paul, a retired architect. ‘You know: “You’re going too fast”, “Can you see that pedestrian?”, “Didn’t you see that traffic light?” or “I feel sick. Can’t you go straight?” There’s always some comment.’
Despite men’s generally high opinion of their own driving skills, a report published in 2004 came down firmly in favour of women drivers. 70 These include driving within the speed limits, overtaking safely and conducting different strategies successfully, including signaling in good time, reversing and braking quickly. They also had a better awareness of other drivers on the road. There was only one aspect of driving where women did not perform as successfully as men and that was-no surprise-the ability to park their cars.
IV. Summary Writing
Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize in no more than 60 words the main idea of the passage and how it is illustrated. Use your own words as far as possible.
Are you a textaholic?
Do you spend over an hour each day texting your friends? Do you frequently neglect work, study and leisure activities to check your phone for text messages? Are you moody and emotional if you are separated from your mobile phone? Do you hardly ever use your phone to talk any more, and do your thumbs from texting too much?
If you answered ‘Yes’ to any of the above questions, then the chances are that you are a textaholic. A textaholic can be defined as someone who is addicted to sending and receiving text messages. The main symptoms are a strong will to text which takes precedence over everything else, and withdrawal symptoms if messages fail to come in, leading to anger, depression and a lack of self-respect. Other problems include sleeplessness, eye strain, and repetitive strain injury due to constant messaging, not to mention expensive phone bills. The root of the problem, as with many addictions, is the desire to escape from emotional difficulties such as stress, anxiety and relationship problems. Experts warn that text addiction is likely to become the most common form of addiction in the future, especially among the young.
So what can you do if you think you may be a textaholic? The key is to get your life back in balance. Make sure you resist the urge to answer every message you receive, and consider leaving your mobile phone behind occasionally when you go out. Most importantly, make a point of spending quality time with friends and family, and make time to re-learn the art of face-to face conversation instead of conducting your relationships by means of text messages. Not only will you save time and money, but you may also rediscover the pleasure of the true communication.
V. Translation
Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.
72. 南非有很多野生动物。

(shortage)
73. 学生们并没有意识到他们的观点和其他人有很大的差异。

(aware)
74. 这位吉他手以身为乐队的一员为荣，并以乐队为慈善事业的贡献为傲。

(proud)
75. 自学从未像现在一样充满了乐趣，这是因为我们能对这一过程掌控自如，而这在过去从未有过。

(which)
VI. Guided Writing
Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
假设你是王磊，你所居住的小区内有一片池塘，但由于无人管理，水质严重污染，并散发出难闻的气味，小区内居民对此非常不满。

你决定写一封投诉信给小区物业，内容包括：
1. 描述池塘的现状以及小区居民的反应；
2. 提出你认为可以解决这一问题的措施以及你的理由。

1-20 Keys: BCBAD CADCB CBACC ADABC
21-30 Keys: named, when, to investigate, that, hearing, on, where, his, featured, had to
31-40 KEYS: KAJBD CEFGI
41-55 BBDAC ACCBD ADACD
56-59 CBBC
60-62 DAB
63-66 BADA
67-70 FACE。