2012年高考英语模拟试卷5(含答案)

武汉市教育科学研究院命制
例：To make members of a team perform better, the trainer first of all has to know their_______and weaknesses.
A. strengths
B. benefits
C. techniques
D. values
答案是A。

21. It is necessary for websites to check their cooperator’s ______ to protect their rights and the rights of the netizens.
A. administration
B. reliability
C. relationship
D. knowledge
22. When parents know where their children are playing, they can set safe ______ and ensure friendly adults are on hand when needed.
A. boundary
B. background
C. information
D. record
23. When we ______ the Olympics it will inspire kids all over the country. A kid in Scotland will be encouraged to take up sport.
A. attend
B. watch
C. stage
D. miss
24. Difficulty can help you ______ experience, and experience can, in return, enrich your mind.
A. accompany
B. accumulate
C. access
D. acknowledge
25. Our next stop will be Canada and then we will ______ our tour in America.
A. pick up
B. set up
C. look up
D. end up
26. We know that a cat, whose eyes can ______ many more rays than our eyes, can see clearly in the night.
A. take in
B. call in
C. give in
D. break in
27. To cover my nervousness I started eating an apple, because I think if they hear you chewing on the other end of the line, it makes you sound ______.
A. absurd
B. casual
C. noble
D. serious
28. We are collecting for the victims of the earthquake-stricken area, please give ______.
A. automatically
B. simply
C. actually
D. generously
29. You’d better write your new address on your luggage just ______ you get separated along on the way
A. in sight
B. in fear
C. in short
D. in case
30. To sum up, ______ war is unavoidable, human beings cannot enjoy everlasting peace.
A. as far as
B. as soon as
C. as long as
D. as well as
第二节：完形填空（20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
I was born with a cleft palate (豁嘴). When schoolmates would ask, "What happened to your lip?" I'd tell them I'd __31__ and cut it on a piece of glass. Somehow it seemed more acceptable to have suffered an __32__ than to have been born different. By the age of seven, I was __33__ that no one outside my family could ever love me.
And then I entered Mrs. Leonard's second-grade class.
I never knew what her first name was ----just Mrs. Leonard . She wa a pretty woman, with shining brown hair and dark, smiling eyes. Everyone __34__ her. But no one came to love her more than I did. Ｔhis was for a special reason.
The time came for the __35__ “hearing tests” given at our school. I was __36__ able to hear out of one ear and was not about to __37__ yet another problem that would __38__ me out as a
different one. So I cheated.
I had learned to __39__ the other children and raise my hand when they did during group testing. The "whisper test" required a different kind of __40__. Each child would go to the classroom door, turn sideway, close one ear with a __41__, and the teacher whispered something from her desk, which the child would __42__. Then the same was done for the other ear. I had __43__ in kindergarten that nobody checked to see how __44__ the untested ear was being covered, so I merely pretended to __45__ mine.
As usual, I was the last one, but all through the testing I __46__ what Mrs. Leonard might say to me. I knew fro __47__ years that the teacher whispered things like “The sky is blue” or “Do you have new shoes?”
My __48__ came. I turned my bad ear toward her, plugging up the other solidly with my finger, then gently __49__ my finger out enough to be able to hear. I waited, and then came the words that God had surely put into her mouth, seven words that __50__ my life forever.
Mrs. Leonard, the teacher I loved, said softly, "I wish you were my little girl."
31. A. touched B. fallen C. held D. trapped
32. A. experiment B. adventure C. attack D. accident
33. A. convinced B. contributed C. expected D. informed
34. A. understood B. aided C. adored D. attended
35. A. annual B. artificial C. average D. apparent
36. A. fortunately B. suddenly C. hardly D. normally
37. A. examine B. expose C. enlarge D. encourage
38. A. strengthen B. simplify C. stress D. single
39. A. watch B. catch C. excuse D. call
40. A. idea B. trick C. image D. sample
41. A. wrist B. hand C. finger D. fist
42. A. recite B. pronounce C. read D. repeat
43. A. discovered B. thought C. accepted D. concerned
44. A. softly B. tightly C. nervously D. widely
45. A. knock B. bounce C. block D. feel
46. A. balanced B. scared C. hesitated D. wondered
47. A. precious B. primary C. proper D. previous
48. A. turn B. chance C. duty D. item
49. A. stopped B. pushed C. backed D. waved
50. A. involved B. changed C. cheered D. benefited
第三部分阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
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Daniel Simonton has been sending $5 bills to strangers in the mail.
And in return, he wants nothing.
The idea came to the Ocean Shores man while he was walking down Broadway Avenue in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. He "distinctly noticed how a lot of people seemed really strange."
"I started to wonder when the last time it was someone did anything nice for these people," Simonton said.
So Simonton went to work, trying to come up with an idea to do good for strangers. In the
beginning stages, his idea wasn't so simple.
"You don't know the half of it! I used to have a list of 300,000 names," he said. "I work in the tech industry. I wrote a script/program to randomly select names, gave some difficult combinations." But he ended up abandoning the high-tech approach and choosing an analog(类似的) method. "For the sake of ease and fun, I broke it down into something that felt like playing a board game," he said.
These days, his do-good starts with a coin toss. He first picks a coin from his bowl of states.
"I have a bowl with all 50 states and 10 Canadian provinces," he said. "Heads--male, tails--female."
With the gender and the state already chosen, he logs onto Facebook.
"I go onto my personal Facebook, browse(浏览) friends of friends until I find a surname that sticks with me. I plug that name and state into and try to find a match," Simonton said. "If there's only one, voila. If more than one, toss coin again; heads - keep it, tails move to the next one, repeat."
So far, Simonton has narrowed down three lucky recipients(收件人) this way, in Carbon Hills, Alabama, Crest Hill, Illinois and Omaha, Nebraska. Each has received a $5 bill encased in a Christmas card with a post office box as the return address.
Simonton says he's working on a website and "a new phase of the recipient selection that will be
a little cleaner and more interactive if I can get enough people interested."
51. It can be concluded from this passage that Simonton ______.
A. is fond of playing cards
B. is good of making up stories
C. feels it hard to decide the recipients
D. shares his idea with many friends
52. Simonton now is working on a website in order to ______
A. let people thank him
B. mail his money quickly
C. store strangers’ information C. get more people involved
53. Simonton mails $5 to strangers for the purpose of ______.
A. spreading good will
B. showing off his wealth
C. making more people rich
D. getting more reward later
54. This passage can be classified as ______.
A. report
B. story
C. an advertisement
D. an argument
B
For years, scientists have been studying how music affects the brain and its functions. Classical music, particularly songs by Mozart, has produced measurable results that have become known as “The Mozart Effect.” The theory, essentially, is that listening to the music of Mozart can improve your intellectual capacity. The question is, can listening to classical music make you more successful?
Several studies have shown mind improvements in those who listened to classical music prior to performing certain tasks or taking tests. Functions that demonstrated in increase in capacity included: Language skills, reading skills, spatial(空间的) tasks, oral communications, quantitative abilities, concentration, memory, and motor skills.
Several studies of students preparing to take the SAT test compared test scores of those who listened to classical music prior to taking the test with those who did not. Those who preceded the test with classical music scored higher on the SAT than the students who did not.
A study by the University of Washington showed that copyeditors(校对者) who listened to
classical music for 90 minutes while editing copy found 21% more mistakes than those who did not.
Improved Interpersonal Relations through Music: Listening to music not only improves functions within your brain, but music has also been shown to have a profound effect on mood. The style of music correlated with the mood experienced by the listener.
55. The author tells us that “The Mozart Effect” can ______.
A. lead us to live happily
B. improve our intelligence
C. bring us a lot of shortcomings
D. make us learn more than any other people
56. The function of listening to classical music do not include ______.
A. sports skills
B. quantitative abilities
C. reading skills
D. physical health
57. Which of the following can help you get high scores according to the passage?
A. Listening to pop music.
B. Listening to teachers carefully.
C. Listening to classical music more.
D. Listening to music whenever possible.
58. From the passage we know that ______.
A. pop music has no effect on people
B. classical music is actually “The Mozart Effect”
C. classical music also affects people’s social relationship
D. listening to classical music can lead to more mistakes for copyeditors
C
In America today, there are almost as many people making their living as bloggers as there are lawyers. Already more Americans are making their primary income from posting their opinions than Americans working as computer programmers or firefighters.
The best studies we can find say we are a nation of over 20 million bloggers, with 1.7 million profiting from the work, and 452,000 of those using blogging as their primary source of income. That's almost 2 million Americans getting paid by the word, the post, or the click -- whether on their site or someone else's. And that's nearly half a million of whom it can be said, as Bob Dylan did of Hurricane Carter: "It's my work he'd say, I do it for pay."
This could make us the most noisily opinionated(固执己见的) nation on earth. The Information Age has spawned many new professions, but blogging could well be the one with the most profound effect on our culture. If journalists were the Fourth Estate, bloggers are becoming the Fifth Estate.
According to a survey, bloggers are extremely well educated: three out of every four are college graduates. Most are white males reporting above-average incomes. One out of three young people reports blogging, but bloggers who do it for a living successfully are 2% of bloggers overall. It takes about 100,000 unique visitors a month to generate an income of $75,000 a year. Bloggers can get $75 to $200 for a good post, and some even serve as "spokesbloggers" -- paid by advertisers to blog about products. As a job with zero commuting, blogging could be one of the most environmentally friendly jobs around -- but it can also be quite profitable. For sites at the top, the returns can be substantial(充裕的). At some point the value of the Huffington Post will no doubt pass the value of the Washington Post.
As bloggers have increased in numbers, the number of journalists has significantly declined. In Washington alone, there are now 79% fewer DC-based employees of major newspapers than there were just few years ago. At the same time, Washington is easily the most blogged-about city in America, if not the world.
59. It can be learned from the first two paragraphs that ______.
A. America is a nation full of unemployment
B. blogger in America have become wealthy
C. American lawyers have become bloggers
D. blogging has become a profession in the USA.
60. What is the advantage of being a blogger?
A. You can have college education.
B. You can choose to work at home.
C. You may be successful easily.
D. You seldom communicate with others.
61. What does the underlined word “generate” in the fourth paragraph mean?
A. Produce.
B. Consume.
C. Discover
D. Decide
62. In the last paragraph the writer describes a situation that ______.
A. Washington has attracted bloggers all over the world
B. American journalists have lost the chance to be bloggers
C. professional bloggers have taken the place of journalists
D. newspapers in Washington have fallen in trouble recently
D
Beer, ice-cream, crisps, Indian takeaways, chips and anything in batter: normally, it's a particular food type that gets blamed for helping the British to pile on the pounds. But now a whole style of cooking and eating has come under fire for encouraging obesity in the UK.
Research shows that Britons consume more than the recommended daily intake(摄入量) of calories in a single barbecue meal, with men often eating more than 3,500 calories and women more than 2,500.
The study, conducted by Boots and the Tony Ferguson Weightloss Programme, found that the average helping includes two sausages, one-and-a-half burgers, two chicken drumsticks, one and a half meat skewers(肉串), fish, a baked potato, a green side salad, pasta salad, a desert and – for the sake of healthiness, no doubt – a bowl of fruit salad to round the meal off.
That equals to just under 3,000 calories, 500 calories more than the recommended daily intake for men and 1,000 more than women are permitted.
Gaila Ferguson, co-founder of the Tony Ferguson Weightloss Programme, blames barbecue bingeing(暴食) on tradition: "When you do a barbecue, you always have to have sausages, burgers, steaks, pasta salad, cous cous salad, potato salad and all the bits on the side. And when you have all those options you feel obliged to try them all, especially if you are a guest."
As the average family will have nine barbecues this summer (weather permitting), she suggests concentrating on one or two flame grilled and side salad options at each meal, and introducing simple measures like taking the skin off chicken to reduce fat content. "Put a chicken breast in some foil(箔) with lemon juice and some nice spices and herbs so it steams on top of the barbecue and stays wet, then take the foil off for the last few minutes so it gets the smokey flavour," she says.
But diners should still exercise "portion control", adds Ferguson: one sausage is apparently much better than three. A tofu kebab or mixed green salad with dressing is even better, according to the Tony Ferguson Cook Book. Barbecue diners can also consume twice their daily recommended intake of salt in one meal, according to Consensus Action on Salt & Health.
63. From the first paragraph we know that ______.
A. a variety of junk food makes the British particular
B. a certain food type causes the British to be overweight
C. eating with camp fire encourages people to eat more
D. cooking used to be carried out without fire in Britain
64. The underlined part in the third paragraph means ______.
A. complete the meal satisfactorily
B. continue the meal till midnight
C. turn the table around quickly
D. set the table up immediately
65. Guile Ferguson holds the opinion that ______.
A. having barbecue is a British tradition
B. Taking the skin off chicken is a waste
C. people should have more barbecue in summer
D. guests at barbecue should limit their food intake
66. In the last paragraph Ferguson advises that we should ______.
A. have fewer sausages to save money
B. do some exercise to eat more
C. control our appetite to keep shape
D. read his cook book to be a good cook
E
They should be given the freedom to adopt alternative qualifications better suited to pupils’ needs as part of a radical overhaul of the education system in England, it is claimed.
Anthony Seldon, the head of Wellington College, Berkshire, said schools were too focused on exam results at the expense of giving children a decent education.
This has been caused by the influence of league tables(名次表) that encourage schools to “teach to the test”, promote easier subjects and force students to repeatedly re-sit exams to boost their position in official rankings, he said.
In a report published by the Centre for Policy Studies, he said: “Too many state schools in Britain in 2010 have become factories.
“Results – at least on paper – have improved. But at what cost?
“Unwilling students are processed through a system which is closely controlled and monitored by the state. No area of public life is more important than education to prepare people to live meaningful, productive and valuable lives.
“Yet our schools turn out young people who are often incapable of living full and autonomous lives.
“At the same time, employers condemn students’ lack of academic and personal skills while universities find that the end products of schools can be little more than well-drilled automatons who do not know how to think independently about their academic subjects.”
In the last 20 years, the GCSE(普通中等教育证书) and A-level pass rate has soared.
Dr Seldon also quoted a study from the Confederation of British Industry showing that half of employers were “unhappy… with school-leavers’ qualities” last year.
In a further conclusion, he said that many top universities found it impossible to pick out the brightest students from record numbers with top A-level results.
In his report - End Factory Schoos: an Education Manifesto 2010 to 2020 –he made 20 recommendations designed to boost standards in state schools.
The included legal autonomy(自治) for all schools within five years, if they proved they were “worthy of handling independence”. This would enable headteachers to control the curriculum, school size, admissions procedures(录取程序), discipline policies and the hours staff should work.
67. Dr Seldon holds the opinion that students in UK ______.
A. don’t have freedom in school
B. often learn the same course repeatedly
C. have to take too many examinations
D. spend too much money on their education
68. The state schools in Britain pay attention to the exam results because ______
A. the results can decide their ranks in the league table
B. students need a good result to find a satisfying job
C. good results can bring great fame for students’ parents
D. the government sings high praise for this policy
69. Employers are not satisfied with the school-leavers because ______.
A. they can only work in factories
B. they have been trained skillfully
C. they forgot the subjects learnt
D. they often follow rules from books
70. The best title for this passage may be ______.
A. Schools in great need of exam regulations
B. Schools being turned into exam factories
C. Schools will have their independence
D. State schools will become private soon
第四部分：书面表达（共两节，满分40分）
第一节：完成句子（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
例：We ____________(起床) before dawn. It was still dark outside. (get)
答案：got up
71. The computer’s system broke down while he ____________(正在查找) for information on the Internet. (search)
72. As a scientific study shows, the harm ____________(过度饮酒带给) people is no less than oversmoking. (do)
73. Recently, not only ____________(发生了巨大变化) in the city, but also the countryside is becoming more beautiful.
74. My demand is that the information referred to in my report ____________(用邮件发) tp Mr. Smith without delay. (e-mail)
75. But for the accident of nuclear power station in Japan, the world ____________(不会意识到) the importance of nuclear safety. (aware)
76. If you check your composition carefully, some spelling mistakes ________可以避免). (avoid)
77. ----Is Tom still performing?
----I’m afraid not. He is said _____(离开) the stage already as he has become an official. (leave)
78. He ____________(一定在洗) a shower, for I can hear the water running. (have)
79. Though we don’t know what was discussed, yet we can feel the topic ____(已改变). (change)
80. The Yellow Crane Tower stands in ____________(被叫做武汉的地方). (call)
第二节：短文写作（共1题；满分25分）
高考临近，很多高三学生情绪焦虑，请根据所提供的信息，以“How to cope with test anxiety?”为题，写一篇稿件投给中学生英语学习杂志。

现象：考前焦虑。

建议：1、做好考前准备，包括文具用品。

2、确认考试地点，时间，上好闹钟，保证充足睡眠。

3、活动四肢，深呼吸，保持积极心态。

4、相信自己，信心是关键。

2、参考词汇：考场：the venue of the exam
3、词数为100左右。

How to cope with test anxiety?
It is common for us to feel anxious before the national college examination. Yet there are a number of things we can do to help manage exam and turn uncomfortable thoughts into more creative tension.
参考答案及评分细则
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31—50：BDACA CBDAB CDABC DDACB
51—54：CDAB 55—58：BDCC 59—62：DBAC 63—66：BADC 67—70：CADB
71. was searching/was in his search 72. that/which overdrinking does (to)
73. have great changes taken place 74. (should) be e-mailed
75. wouldn’t be/have become aware of 76can be avoided 77. to have left 78. must be having 79. has been changed 80. what is called
第二节：短文写作（满分25分）
How to cope with test anxiety
It is common for us to feel anxious before the national college entrance examination. Yet there are a number of things we can do to help manage exam anxiety and turn uncomfortable thoughts into more creative tension.
First of all, we should make good preparations before going to bed. This can include getting ready everything for the exam including pens, rulers, erasers, calculators and other such things. Second, we must check the venue of the exam as well as the time and then we should set the alarm clock and get a good night’s sleep ahead of the exam to contribute positively to reducing test anxiety.
Third, we can spend a few minutes calming ourselves if we feel excessive test anxiety and this can include stretching the arms and legs and then relaxing them. It also helps to take a few deep breaths and focus our mind on the positive thought.
And last, believe in ourselves. Remember: Confidence is the key.。