新高考英语综合训练题十六

新高考英语综合训练题十六
一、阅读理解：说明文、建议用时8分钟：
Would you buy a car that releases calming smells into the air when you are stuck in heavy traffic? Would you buy a robot that smells like a human being?
Many people have seen the 3-D computer-made environments of virtual 虚拟的reality (VR). Now these virtual worlds will not just look real but also sound real. Researchers have created VR environments that even smell like the real things. With the new technology, users open a virtual door and step into a new environment, like a rainforest. After they enter this virtual world, special equipment releases forest-like smells into the air to make the experience seem more real.
Suzanne Fisher-Murray said, “It is a really wonderful experience that you can have because you’re exploring this environment and you have smells with it.’’
In the United States, Smell-O-Vision was designed to provide smells during the showing of a movie. The Smell-O-Vision system was once popular in the 1960s. Now, Emanuela Maggioni says it is going to become popular again. “They try to connect emotions and memories with the sense of smell,’ Maggioni said. “It is unbelievable what we can do with technology.’’
The uses of smell technology are not just limited to films and the performing arts. Researchers showed a computer program where users could imagine themselves driving a car. The system included a special smell-spraying machine. Dmitrijs Dmitrenko said, “We want to deliver the smell of lavender 薰衣草every time the person drives over the speed limit. We choose lavender because it’s a very calming smell.
Scientists are experimenting with smell instead of sound or imaged-based alerts警报on telecommunication equipment. And businesses are already using smell to influence people’s behavior. “You can create and stimulate 刺激immediate buying,’’Maggioni said. “If you’re in a library and you smell coffee and actually you are unconsciously having the need to drink a cup of coffee.’’
1Using smell technology, researchers make VR environments
A become more virtual
B even smell like real ones
C look like the 4-
D environments D impress people with a virtual world
2The example of Smell-O-Vision suggests that
A America was the first to use smell technology
B cinemas are the most suitable for using smell technology
C smell technology has been tried before
D it is out of date to use smell-spraying devices
3How is smell technology used by businessmen?
A To make buyers understand salesmen better
B To remind people of their unrealistic buying
C To help customers choose their favorite goods
D To encourage people to buy something suddenly
4What is the main idea of the passage?
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A The uses of smell technology
B A major breakthrough of smell technology
C The sense of smell in human communication
D The advanced smell-spraying machines
二、七选五：议论文、建议用时8分钟：
If you are in your 20s or even 30s, you might feel a lot of uncertainty all the time. You may be not sure what your life purpose is. 1 That is normal.
We all want to have a certain life purpose. We all want to feel we’re on the right path. We all want to perfect our habits, our routines or our productivity. We all want to feel more certain and perfect in what we’re doing.
There is a struggle between the comfort of certainty and perfection and fear of uncertainty and being suboptimal 不理想的.
Let me tell you a secret. No one is free from this struggle. Look at the most successful people you can think of-Bill Gates, Obama, Taylor Swift. 2 Do you think they have certainty and a feeling of reaching perfection? Not a chance. There is not one of us alive, not me or anyone else, who ever feels certainty about their purpose or path. If they do, they’re fooling themselves. 3
No one ever feels they have found the perfect productivity routine or the perfect version of themselves. 4
We all feel uncertainty all day, and we all struggle with it. Some people have got more comfortable with it than others, but in general no one likes uncertainty.
5That’s perfectly OK and perfectly normal. Don’t run from it. Instead, stay with this uncomfortable, unappealing uncertainty. It’s here in you, a part of this moment, a part of you but not the whole of you.
A Because it doesn’t exist
B Do you think they have it all figure out?
C This uncertainty you are feeling is unpleasant
D But if they are honest, they don’t feel that certainty
E See if you can tell what you are uncertain about
F So focus on what you actually have right in front of you
G You may be uncertain about what path you should take in life
三、语法填空：
Last year, my brother and I went to Miami for a vacation. Some of my friends who had been there before said 1 was a wonderful holiday destination. Before we went, we had planned for months. When the day came, we were ready.
After our plane landed, we went to the hotel. We had made our reservation six months 2 (early), but the man at the front desk said there had been a mistake. We 3 (tell) that our rooms hadn’t been reserved for that week, 4 for the week after. I didn’t understand 5 this would happen and my credit card had already been charged 6 the reservation. What’s worse, the hotel had been fully booked. When we were wondering what to do, the manager came out. She was 7 (surprise) helpful. She apologized for the mistake and
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Gave us a spare VIP room on 8 top floor. We had never stayed in such an amazing room, and we weren’t charged extra.
The next day, my brother and I went to the beach 9 we watched some people play volleyball. We got a little 10 (sunburn), but the day had been so relaxing that we didn’t mind.
四、完形填空：记叙文、建议用时17分钟：
Each week, I give my elderly neighbor a ride to the store when I am going. She keeps trying to 1 me for the ride, and I always 2 refusing. I tell her that it doesn’t cost any more for her to 3 with me and it is 4 for me to do this.
Last week, she brought a(n) 5 and said happily, “I have something for you and you must accept it.’’ I said, “If there is money in it, I don’t want it.’’ But she 6 it on a table. Later, I opened it to find a “thank you’’ card with 7 in it. That night, I stopped at her house to give her a plate of 8 fried chicken that I had. I took an envelope and put the $10 9 it along with a “10 ‘’ card. When leaving, I 11 it near her door.
The next day, she paid a(n) 12 to my home to return my 13 . She said, “Look, I know you put that letter in my door this morning, didn’t you?’’ I had 14 forgotten about it, and there was sincere 15 on my face, she believed me when I said that I hadn’t put any letter in her door that morning. Actually, it was the night before, 16 I thought I wasn’t lying. She went on to 17 the envelope and the enclosed装入的“smile’’18 , and told me how she was blessed with so many good things lately. I told her that I was so 19 for her, and that I hope she 20 to be so blessed.
1. A cost B pay C spend D take
2. A keep B admit C enjoy D stop
3. A climb B walk C ride D run
4. A important B useful C troublesome D convenient
5. A envelope B choice C basket D chance
6. A lied B laid C contributed D expressed
7. A $1 B $10 C $ 100 D $ 20
8. A dark B bright C extra D familiar
9. A off B about C from D in
10.A smile B love C flower D hug
11.A appeared B drawn C placed D written
12.A attention B fine C reward D visit
13.A bike B pen C coat D plate
14.A completely B extremely C roughly D calmly
15.A mark B look C impression D wound
16.A if B because C so D otherwise
17.A defend B direct C disturb D describe
18.A stamp B card C letter D book
19.A surprised B sorry C happy D sad
20.A continues B challenges C rejects D expects
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五、小作文：
假定你是李华，毕业在即，请你用英文给你的英语老师写一张Thank-you Note。

内容包括：
1 表达对老师的感谢；
2 描述老师对你的帮助和影响；
3 表达对老师的祝福。

注意：1 词数80词左右；2 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯
六、大作文：读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

Just before Christmas, my daughter Katie and I went over to my dad’s place to decorate. While we worked on the tree, grand babies Decie and Johnny entertained their great-grandfather Papa Cox. Their laughter and occasional arguments must have reminded Papa of the past days when my brother and I were just their size because I saw a twinkle 闪烁in his 80-year-old eyes.
Hanging the familiar decorations on Papa’s tree, I couldn’t help gently touching the very oldest of the glass balls. Those I made sure to suspend 悬浮from the uppermost branches, were safely out of reach of tiny hands. When the tree was beautifully dressed and glowing, we bid 表示my dad goodbye with lots of hugs and kisses and headed for home. Later that night, in the quiet darkness, I pulled my memories up close and lay down to rest and recall the past.
The Christmas I turned 16, while decorating the tree with Mama, I clumsy 笨拙地dropped and broke a decoration. The old glass ball was blue and its surface began to fall off; it had been on our tree for as long as I could remember. Guiltily, I bent to pick up the broken pieces and was surprised to find a tiny sheet of paper among the pieces. Unfolding it, I recognized my father’s penciled writing. Lifting my eyes, I saw my mother’s penciled fond expression.
“Your daddy wrote that and stuck it in that blue ball during our first Christmas together, just before you were born,’’ she said with a smile. I wouldn’t have believed it, except for the proof there in my hands. The daddy I knew always looked upon
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getting the tree decorated as a chore he wanted least part in. In fact, sometimes he could be a bit of a lazy and mean man around the holidays! And yet this bit of yellowed paper proved that long ago my daddy had done something apparently romantic at Christmas.
Carefully laying the note aside, I cleaned up the broken pieces , wishing I could somehow restore the pieces. “It’s OK,’’ Mama said, encouraging me with a hug. “Just pick out another of the old ones and folded the note back inside.’’
注意：1 续写短文的词数应为150左右
2 至少使用5个短文中标有下划线的关键词
3 续写部分分为两段，每段开头语已为你写好
4 续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语
Paragraph 1:Now, as we celebrate the holidays without Mama, who we lost to cancer, my discovery become more bitter.
Paragraph 2 : As I carefully handle those old decorations, I love knowing that one holds a secret between Papa and Mama—one that was obvious to all who knew them.
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