银川高三英语第二次模拟试题含答案(2)
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We know the famous ones—the Thomas Edisons and the Alexander Graham Bells—but what about the less famous inventors? What about the people who invented the traffic light and the windshield wiper (雨刮器)? Shouldn' t we know who they are?
Joan Mclean thinks so. In fact, Mclean, a professor of physics at Mountain University in Range, feels so strongly about this matter that she's developed a course on the topic. In addition to learning “who” invented “what”, however, Mclean also likes her students to learn the answers to the “why” and “how” questions. According to Mclean, “When students learn the answers to these questions, they are better prepared to recognize opportunities for inventing and more motivated to give inventing a try.”
Her students agree. One young man with a patent for an unbreakable umbrella is walking proof of McLean's statement. “If I had not heard the story of the windshield wiper's invention，” said Tommy Lee, a senior physics major.“I never would have dreamed of turning my bad experience during a rain storm into something so meaningful.” Lee is currently negotiating(商谈) to sell his patent to an umbrella producer.
So, just what is the story behind the windshield wiper? Well, Mary Anderson came up with the idea in 1902 after a visit to New York City. The day was cold and stormy, but Anderson still wanted to see the sights, so she jumped aboard a streetcar. Noticing that the driver was struggling to see through the snow covering the windshield, she found herself wondering why there couldn't be a built-in device for cleaning the window. Still wondering about this when she returned home to Birmingham, Alabama, Anderson started working out solutions. One of her ideas, a lever (操作杆) on the inside of a vehicle that would control an arm on the outside, became the first windshield wiper.
Today we benefit from countless inventions and innovations.(创新) It's hard to imagine driving without Garrett A.Morgan's traffic light. It's equally impossible to picture a world without Katherine J.Blodgett's innovation that makes glass invisible.
32. By mentioning “traffic light” and “windshield wiper”, the author indicates that countless inventions are________.
A.beneficial, though their inventors are less famous
B.beneficial, because their inventors are famous
C.not useful, because their inventors are less famous
D.not useful, though their inventors are famous
33. Professor Joan McLean's course aims to________.
A.add color and variety to students' campus life
B.prepare students to try their own invention
C.carry out the requirements by Mountain University
D.inform students of the windshield wiper' s invention
34. Tommy Lee's invention of the unbreakable umbrella was________.
A.not eventually accepted by the umbrella producer
B.not related to Professor Joan McLean's lectures
C.due to his dream of being caught in a rainstorm
D.inspired by the story behind the windshield wiper
35. Which of the following can best serve as the title of this passage?
A. How to Help Students to Sell Their Inventions to Producers?
B.How to Design a Built-in Device for Cleaning the Window?
C.Shouldn't We Develop Invention Courses in Universities?
D.Shouldn't We Know Who Invented the Windshield Wiper?
第二节(共5小题;每小题2分，满分10 分)
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Now that spring is here, the days are longer, the sun is shining and you’re longing to get out of the house. But beaches are not open yet, 36 . They have always been the perfect cheap getaway for families and adventurers.
While people still camp, hike, and enjoy the fantastic beauty of nature and the wilderness, they have to be more careful. A total of 1,025 people died in national parks from 2007 to 2013 ; 145 people in 2014, up from 129 in 2013. 37 . Whether you are hiking, camping or simply taking a walk in the park, you must carry necessary items — which includes a flashlight, matches, candles, extra batteries, and food — 38 .
39 . Check the weather forecast before heading out; it may be burning hot in some places, like the Grand Canyon, with temperatures easily climbing over 110 degrees Fahrenheit.
40 .You can never be overprepared, especially if you plan a visit to one of the national parks on the following list: Precipice Trail ,Acadia National Park; Bright Angel Trail ,Grand Canyon, Arizona ; Vernal Fall, Yosemite National Park; Huckleberry Mountain, Glacier National Park ; The narrows, Zion National Park.
A. Pack your backpacks accordingly, depending on the nature of your trip.
B. The God may be in your favor, but some places are really dangerous.
C. it attracts people to visit American’s National Parks.
D. Poor weather judgment is usually what gets people in trouble.
E. Sometimes it’s very sunny in the morning, but it starts raining in the afternoon
F. so why not visit one of American’s 58 national parks?
G. and be ready for the unexpected.
第三部分 英语知识运用(共两节，满分45分)
第一节 完形填空(共20小题：每小题1.5分，满分30分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
To me, kindness is a chosen lifestyle. In my classroom, I tell my 41 that every day they are offered a choice. They can’t choose what happens to them, but they can choose how they 42 to it. Kindness is a 43 . And it is a lifestyle. It isn’t something that we just choose once in a while---- it is a(n) 44 to live our lives.
My father was hospitalized with leukemia(白血病) when I was in college. He didn’t choose the cancer. 45 , he chose how to react to it. To this day, seventeen years later , the nurses 46 write my mother letters. The 47 ? It was because of my father’s kindness to others even when he was 48 against the disease. He made kindness a lifestyle.
And I want to be 49 him.
Every day as a teacher, I try and teach my students the kindness lifestyle. Just recently, I turned 40 and a friend gave me 40 individual dollar bills. She challenged me to do something 50 with the money. I gladly accepted the challenge.
I gave 40 of my students one dollar each and challenged them to make a(n) 51 . What happened? My Twitter and Instagram were 52 with pictures of kids making the world a better place. One girl bought a dollar store stuffed animal(填充玩具). It was 53
that kids should have made a difference when they were given the 54 .
Living the kindness lifestyle 55 every day, every opportunity. As a high school teacher, I see 56 everywhere. In the hallways, in the lunchroom, in the locker room,
57 words and gossip fill the air. So I started a hashtag (标签) to 58 positive gossip called “third party compliments(称赞)”. The idea is that you talk about people behind their backs, but do it in a 59 way. In that way, the gossip that gets back to students makes their day instead of getting them down.
Our kindness lifestyle leaves a footprint on others, and let us be the movers and kindness-makers who 60 a better, more beautiful world.
41. A. teachers B.classmates C. students D. friends
42. A. respond B. refer C. return D. contribute
43. A. mood B. goal C. benefit D. choice
44. A. spirit B. way C. chance D. idea
45. A. Therefore B. Otherwise C. However D. Furthermore
46. A. still B. never C. once D. just
47. A. meaning B. solution C. purpose D. reason
48. A. working B. struggling C. seeking D. exercise
49. A. against B. with C. before D. like
50. A. reasonable B. private C. necessary D. creative
51. A. promise B. difference C. profit D. achievement
52. A. concerned B. equipped C. flooded D. decorated
53. A. confusing B. natural C. common D. amazing
54. A opportunity B. advertisement C. payment D. introduction
55. A. means B. increases C. makes D. explains
56. A. progress B. negativity C. trust D. harmony
57. A. hurtful B. inspiring C. touching D. humorous
58. A. call off B. call for C. turn down D. set aside
59. A. honest B. flexible C. positive D. cautious
60. A. requires B. allows C. promotes D. works
绝密★启用前
2017年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试
英 语
(银川一中第二次模拟考试)
第II卷
注意：将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。
第二节(共10小题;每小题1.5分，满分15分)
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
A poor farmer always admired his best friend could grow wonderful fruit. One day, his friend gave ____61____ farmer an apple tree and told him to take it home and plant it. But when he got home, he felt____62____ difficult to decide where to plant it. He was afraid that people would steal the fruit. After thinking carefully, he decided to plant the tree in a place____63_____no one could find it. Finally, ____64_____(choose) a dark place deep in the woods, he planted it with great care. But ____65____ sunlight and good soil, soon the leaves began to fall down and the ____66____ (branch) began to dry. At last, the tree died. Later, the friend asked the farmer_____67____ he had planted the tree in such a poor place. “Because I didn’t want it _____68______(steal) and hoped to keep it to myself. ”the farmer explained.
“But it died!” said the friend_____69______(angry). “If you had planted it in a good place, at least someone _____70_______( enjoy) the fruit. Now you not only have robbed everyone of the fruit, but also have destroyed a good apple tree!”
第四部分 写作(共两节，满分35分)
第一节 短文改错(共10小题:每小题1分，满分10分)
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处.每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号( ) 并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除:把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改:在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意:
1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;
2. 只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Dear Peter,
I am writing to you regarded the problem of global warming. When I watch TV, I was surprised to watch the weather forecast saying that it was going to be warmer. Was it to continue, people would have no place to live in. These years, the earth has became warmer and warmer owing humans’ activities. This phenomena has appealed to many scientists, for who want to find out the cause of it. For example, people use too many energy in order to develop economy without caring about the earth. Meanwhile, factories give off too much carbon dioxide what has a great influence on an increase of temperature of the earth.
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
第二节 书面表达(满分25分)
假设你是李华，刚刚参加了在London为中学生举行的为期一周的关于各国传统文化交流的冬令营活动，请你给组织者Mr. Black 写一封邮件表达感谢之意，并请他帮忙寄回你忘记带回的数码相机。
要点如下：1、对交流活动的感受。2、有关相机的信息及其重要性。3、表示感谢。
注意：
1、词数100左右;
2、可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Mr. Black,
I am Li Hua _______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
参考答案
第一部分：听力理解(共两节。满分30分)
1--5 BCCAB 6--10 ACBCC 11--15 ACBBA 16--20 CACBA
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30分)
21—23. CDB B 24—27.CDCA 28—31.CDAB 32—35.ABDD
第二节(共5小题;每小题2分，满分10 分)
36-40 FBGDA
第三部分：第一节：完型填空
41-45.CADBC 46-50. ADBDD 51-55. BCDAA 56-60.BABCC
第二节：语法填空
61.the 62.it 63.where 64.having chosen 65. without 66.branches 67.why 68 stolen/to be stolen 69.angrily 70.could have enjoyed
第四部分：第一节：短文改错
1.regarded-regarding 2.watch-watched 3.Was-Were 4.became-become
5.owing后加to 6.phenomena-phenomenon 7.去掉who前面的for
8.many-much 9.what-which 10.an-the
第二节:写作范文
Dear Mr. Black,
I am Li Hua. I am writing to convey my deep gratitude for the winter camp you organized for us teenagers, which is really beneficial to us. During the one-week activity, not only did I broaden my horizon to get familiar with traditional culture of different countries but I made so many foreign friends as well. I had a wonderful time there.
By the way, would you please do me a favor? Because of my carelessness, I left my digital camera in the Room 201 of the hotel where we lived. It contains all the valuable photos I took during the activity, which mean a lot to me. If you could find it, would you please post it to me and I will pay for the postage.
I’d appreciate it if you could assist me to get my precious camera back. Thank you very much.
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
