2018年广东省普通高中学业水平英语模拟考试试题

2018年广东省普通高中学业水平英语模拟考试试题（满分100分，时间90分钟）I. 情景交际（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）阅读下列简短对话，从A、B、C和D中选出最佳答案，讲对话补全。

-metre relay race.（）1.—Our class have won the girl’s 400— _________.A. With a pleasure.B. What a pity!C. Not at all.D. Congratulations!（）2. W: May I ask a question after class, SirM: ______, but not during my lunch break.A. I’m sorryB. SometimeC. Go aheadD. Certainly（）3. W: Hello! May I speak to TomM: ________.A. I’m Tom?B. This is TomC. That is TomD. Speaking（）4. W: May I invite you to dinnerM: ________, but I'm afraid I have no time?.A. I'd love toB. No, I can’ｔC. Excuse meD. Not really（）5. W: I am afraid I must be leaving now.M: ________, and wish you a pleasant journey.A. It’s my pleasureB. GoodC. Good eveningD. See youII.阅读理解（共15小题，每小题2分，满分40分）阅读下列短文，掌握其大意，然后从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中选出最佳选项。

ASamuel Osmond is a 19-year-old law student from Cornwall, England. He never studied the piano. However, he can play very difficult musical pieces by musicians such as Chopin and Beethoven just a few minutes after he hears them. He learns a piece of music by listening to it in parts. Then he thinks about the notes in his head. Two years ago, he played his first piece Moonlight Sonata(奏鸣曲)by Beethoven. He surprised everyone around him.Amazed that he remembered this long and difficult piece of music and played it perfectly, his teachers say Samuel is unbelievable. They say his ability is very rare, but Samuel doesn't even realize that what he can do is special. Samuel wanted to become a lawyer as it was the wish of his parents, but music teachers told him he should study music instead. Now, he studies law and music.Samuel can't understand why everyone is so surprised. “I grew up with music. My mother played the piano and my father played the guitar. About two years ago, I suddenly decided to start playing the piano, without being able to read music and without having any lessons. It comes easily to me—I hear the notes and can bear them in mind—each and every note，” says Samuel.Recently, Samuel performed a piece during a special event at his college. The piece had more than a thousand notes. The audience was impressed by his amazing performance. He is now learning a piece that is so difficult that many professional pianists can't play it. Samuel says confidently，“It's all about super memory—I guess I have that gift.”However, Samuel's ability to remember things doesn't stop with music. His family says that even when he was a young boy, Samuel heard someone read a story, and then he could retell the story word for word.Samuel is still only a teenager. He doesn't know what he wants to do in the future. For now,he is just happy to play beautiful music and continue his studies.6. What is special about Samuel OsmondA. He has a gift for writing music.B. He can write down the note he hears.C. He is a top student at the law school.D. He can play the musical piece he hears.7. What can we learn from Paragraph 2A. Samuel chose law against the wish of his parents.B. Samuel planned to be a lawyer rather than a musician.C. Samuel thinks of himself as a man of great musical ability.D. Samuel studies law and music on the advice of his teachers.8. Everyone around Samuel was surprised because he ________．A. received a good early education in musicB. played the guitar and the piano perfectlyC. could play the piano without reading musicD. could play the guitar better than his father9. What can we infer about Samuel in Paragraph 4A. He became famous during a special event at his college.B. He is proud of his ability to remember things accurately.C. He plays the piano better than many professional pianists.D. He impressed the audience by playing all the musical pieces.10. Which of the following is the best title of the passageA. The qualities of a musicianB. The story of a musical talentC. The importance of early educationD. The relationship between memory and musicBIt was a cold winter day. A woman drove up to the Rainbow Bridge tollbooth(收费站). “I'mpaying for myself, and for the six cars behind me，” she said with a smile, handing over seventickets. One after another, the next six drivers arriving at the tollbooth were informed, “Some ladyup ahead already paid your fare.”It turned out that the woman, Natalie Smith, had read something on a friend's refrigerator:“Practise random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.” The phrase impressed her so much that she copied it down.Judy Foreman spotted the same phrase on a warehouse wall far away from home. When itstayed on her mind for days, she gave up and drove all the way back to copy it down. “I thoughtit was beautiful，” she said, explaining why she'd taken to writing it at the bottom of all her letters,“like a message from above.” Her husband, Frank, liked the phrase so much that he put it up onthe classroom wall for his students, one of whom was the daughter of Alice Johnson, a local newsreporter. Alice put it in the newspaper, admitting that though she liked it, she didn't know where itcame from or what it really meant.Two days later, Alice got a call from Anne Herbert, a woman living in Marin. It was in arestaurant that Anne wrote the phrase down on a piece of paper, after turning it around in her mindfor days.“Here's the idea，”Anne says. “Anything you think there should be more of, do itrandomly.” Her fantasies include painting the classrooms of shabby schools, leaving hot meals onkitchen tables in the poor part of town, and giving money secretly to a proud old lady. Anne says,“Kindness_can_build_on_itself_as_much_as_violence_can.”The acts of random kindness spread. If you were one of those drivers who found your farepaid, who knows what you might have been inspired to do for someone else later. Like all greatevents, kindness begins slowly, with every single act. Let it be yours!11. Why did Natalie Smith pay for the six cars behind herA. She knew the car drivers well.B. She wanted to show kindness.C. She hoped to please others.D. She had seven tickets.12. Judy Foreman copied down the phrase because she ________.A. thought it was beautifully writtenB. wanted to know what it really meantC. decided to write it on a warehouse wallD. wanted her husband to put it up in the classroom13. Who came up with the phrase according to the passageA. Judy Foreman.B. Natalie Smith.C. Alice Johnson.D. Anne Herbert.14. Which of the following statements is closest in meaning to the underlined sentence aboveA. Kindness and violence can change the world.B. Kindness and violence can affect one's behaviour.C. Kindness and violence can reproduce themselves.D. Kindness and violence can shape one's character.15. What can we infer from the last paragraphA. People should practise random kindness to those in need.B. People who receive kindness are likely to offer it to others.C. People should practise random kindness to strangers they meet.D. People who receive kindness are likely to pay it back to the giver.CThroughout the history of the arts，the nature of creativity has remained constant to artists.No matter what objects they select，artists are to bring forth new forces and forms that causechange—to find poetry where no one has ever seen or experienced it before.Landscape（风景）is another unchanging element of art. It can be found from ancient times throughthe 17th-century Dutch painters to the 19th-century romanticists and impressionists. In the 1970sAlfred Leslie，one of the new American realists，continued this practice，Leslie sought out thesame place where Thomas Cole, a romanticist, had produced paintings of the same scene a centuryand a half before. Unlike Cole who insists on a feeling of loneliness and the idea of finding peacein nature，Ledge pains what he actually sees. In his paintings，there is no particular change inmotion，and he includes ordinary things like the highway in the background. He also takesadvantage of the latest developments of color photography（摄影术）to help both the eye and thememory when he improves his painting back in his workroom.Besides，all art begs the age-old question：What is real？Each generation of artists has showntheir understanding of reality in one form or another. The impressionists saw reality in briefemotional effects，the realists in everyday subjects and in forest scenes，and the Cro-Magnon cavepeople in their naturalistic drawings of the animals in the ancient forests. To sum up. understanding reality is a necessary struggle for Artists of all periods.Over thousands of years the function of the arts has remained relatively constant. Past or present，Eastern or Western，the arts are a basic part of our immediate experience. Many and different arethe faces of art，and together they express the basic need and hope of human beings.16. The underlined word “poetry” mostprobably means______________.A. an object for artistic creationB. a collection of poemsC. an unusual qualityD. a natural scene17. Leslie’s paintings are extraordinary because______________.A. they are close in style to works in ancient timesB. they look like works by 19th-cenary paintersC. they draw attention to common things in lifeD. they depend heavily on color photography？______________.18. What is the author’s opinion of artistic reallyA. It will not be found in future works of art.B. It does not have a long-lasting standard.C. It is expressed in a fixed artistic form.D. It is lacking in modern works of art.19. What does the author suggest about the arts in the last paragraph？ity about the past.A. They express people’s curiosB. They make people interested in everyday experience.C. They are considered important for variety in form.D. They are regarded as a mirror of the human situation.20. Which of the following is the main topic of the passage？A. History of the arts.B. Basic questions of the arts.C. New developments in the arts.D. Use of modern technology in the arts.III.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，然后从各题所给的A、B、C和D项中选出最佳选项。