2015年高考仿真模拟试卷新课标卷II(一)英语

2015年高考仿真模拟试卷·新课标卷II（一）

英语

本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。考试结束后，将本试卷和答案卡一并交回。

注意事项：

1.答第I卷前考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。

2.选出每小题答案前，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号框，不能答在本试卷上，否则无效。

第一部分听力

略

第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

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（2015年广州一模英语试卷）At the start of the 20th century, a new city was beginning to grow on some flat land near the sea in southern California; its name was Los Angeles. At the same time, a new industry was just being born: the cinema.

America’s movie industry began life in New York; but by 1910, movie-makers were moving to Los Angeles. In New York, everything was too expensive: workers, land, taxes. Moreover, it was difficult to make movies in winter, because it was too cold.

The Los Angeles region, on the other hand, was full of advantages. In California, they could make films all through the year; and everything was cheaper. In particular, there was lots of land for sale, especially in the Los Angeles suburb called Hollywood.

Mo vies quickly became very popular, and this popularity exploded after “talkies” first appeared in 1925. Nevertheless, movies were expensive to produce, and film companies needed money-lots of it. For this reason, Hollywood rapidly became controlled by a small number of big companies such

as MGM, 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros. and Paramount.

Since then, the big companies’ fortunes have ebbed and flowed, but most of them are still there. Some old names have disappeared, but some new ones have appeared, companies like Walt Disney and Steven Spielberg’s company Amblin. Today the biggest studios belong to huge international firms. For instance, News Corporation, which now owns Fox, also owns newspapers on three continents, and TV networks in America, Europe and Asia.

It is only huge companies like Fox that can afford to make today’s very expensive films; and for Titanic-at the time the most expensive film ever mad-Fox had to get help from another big company, Paramount!

Once Hollywood mad films just for America; to day it makes them for the world. It’s the center of a global dream-machine. Perhaps we dreamed differently in the past. Today, thanks in part to Hollywood, people everywhere have similar dreams.

We now live in the age of global culture. Hollywood did not invent this culture-but for better or for worse, it has become one of the most powerful elements in it. Like it or not, we all now live on planet Hollywood.

21. What attracted the film industry to Los Angeles?

A. Cheaper costs and pleasant weather.

B. More talented actors and mild climate.

C. More skilled workers and plentiful land.

D. Large movie companies and lower wages.

22. Which of the following is true about the Hollywood movie companies?

A. They sometimes work together to produce movies.

B. They produce expensive movies far less often than in the past.

C. The same companies have controlled the industry for almost 100 years.

D. There are many large companies competing against each other for success.

23. What does the writer think about the international influence of Hollywood?

A. It has encouraged people to dream like Americans.

B. It has made foreigners love American people more.

C. It has become a driving force in shaping global culture.

D. It has damaged the local film industry in other countries.