辽宁省沈阳市东北育才双语学校高三上学期第一次模拟考试英语试题及答案

1、辽宁省沈阳市东北育才双语学校2013-2014学年高三上学期第一次模拟考试英语试题答题时间：100分钟 满分：120分 命题人：高三英语组 校对人：高三英语组第二部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）第一节 单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）1we all hold _ belief that those who have _ wonderful sense of humor are more popular.athe; a b/; / cthe; / da; the2she likes walking best because there is _ like walking a

2、s a means of keeping fit.asomething banything cnothing deverything3. at no time _the rules of the game. it was unfair to punish them.a. they actually broke b. do they actually break c. did they actually break d. they had actually broken4i left university with a good degree in english literature, but

3、 no _ of what i wanted to do. asense bdifference chope dchance5our government _ much importance to education now, which enables so many people to be well educated. aattaches bpays clinks dapplies6as usual, the 2013 spring festival gala _ on new years eve, which attracted almost all the chinese. atoo

4、k up btook in ctook over dtook place7the supermarket rules state that no goods _ be taken out of the supermarket, _ paid for by the shopper.amust; once bshould; when ccan; if dshall; unless8be careful that a good name of a product doesnt _ mean good quality of it.aalternatively bapproximately cobvio

5、usly dnecessarily9as is reported, it will be more than 20 years _ humans are able to walk on mars.abefore bwhen csince dafter10_ you interrupt now? cant you see im on the phone?sorry sir, but its urgent.acan bshould cwould dmust11did you know more about the mine accident?oh，sorry，i had no idea. i _

6、the rescue center now.awill be phoning bam to phone cwill phone dphone12i admire my english teacher. i can remember very few occasions _ she stopped working because of ill health. athat bwhen cwhere dwhich13_ for children, the album became popular with parents _ it came out.adesigned; when bdesigned

7、; immediately cto design; as soon as ddesigning; as14help me out in the kitchen and i _ you to some westernstyle food.atreat bwas treating cwill treat dhave treated15i have to go and get the clothes from the laundry. _？ i can pick them up on my way home this afternoon.a so what bhow come cwhy bother

8、 dwhy not第二节完形填空(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。he was driving home one cold evening on a country road when he saw an old lady, stranded on the side of the road. he stopped to give her a _16_. “why dont you wait in the car where it is warm, madam? it wont take me l

9、ong.” he said, “_17_，my name is joe.”she had a flat tire. joe crawled under the car and changed the tire. but he got dirty and his hands hurt. she couldnt thank him _18_ and asked him how much she _19_ him. he told her that if she really wanted to _20_ him back, the next time she saw someone in _21_

10、 of help, she could give that person the _22_ he needed, and joe added, “and think of me.”she drove off with gratefulness. a few miles _23_ the road the lady saw a small _24_. she went in. the waitress who was nearly eight months pregnant, _25_ her with a sweet smile. the old lady _26_ how someone l

11、ike her who seemed so poor could be so genuinely happy and how she could _27_ her enthusiasm in her work in such inconvenient conditions. then joes words _28_ her. after the lady finished her meal, the waitress went to get her _29_ from a hundreddollar bill. _30_， the lady stepped right out of the d

12、oor.when the waitress came back, she noticed a note on the table, _31_ “im helping you because someone once helped me. if you really want to pay me back, here is _32_ you can dodo not let the chain of love _33_ with you.”the waitress went home that night with the _34_ tip and what the lady had writt

13、en. with the baby _35_ next month, she and her husband needed money. she knew how worried her husband was and as he lay sleeping next to her, she whispered, “everythings going to be all right. i love you, joe.”16a.surprise bhand csympathy dglance17a.just in case bas you wish cfor one thing dby the w

14、ay18a.enough bright cstraight dextra19a.charged bprovided cowed doffered20a.pay bbring cput dhold21a.honor bfavor cneed dpossession22a.guidance bassistance cacquaintance dconsequence23a.down boff cbeside dbeyond24a.bank bgrocery cgas station drestaurant25a.introduced bgreeted cidentified dspotted26a

15、.thought bsuspected cwondered dquestioned27a.taste bmeasure cremain dmaintain28a.struck bmoved cobtained dreminded29a.tip bchange corder dservice30a.moreover botherwise chowever deventually31a.writing bshowing cgoing dsaying32a.how bwhich cwhat dwhether33a.combine bend cdisagree ddeal34a.honest bgen

16、erous cmodest dgraceful35a.due bready cborn dlikely第三部分 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） alow-cost gifts for mothers daygift no. 1offer to be your mothers health friend. promise to be there for any and all doctors visitswhether a disease or a regular medical check-up. most mothers always say n

17、o need, another set of eyes and ears is always a good idea at a doctors visit. the best part ? this one is free.gift no. 2help your mother organize all of her medical records, which include the test results and medical information. put them all in one place. be sure to make a list of all of her medi

18、cines and what times she takes them. having all this information in one place could end up saving your mothers life, dr. marie savard said.gift no. 3enough sleep is connected to general health conditions. buy your mother cotton sheets and comfortable pillows to encourage better sleep, savard said. w

19、e know that good sleep is very important to our health.36.what are you advised to do for your mother at doctors visits? atake notes.bbe with her.cbuy medicine.dgive her gifts.37.what can be a gift of organization for your mother? akeeping her medical information together.bbuying all gifts for her fr

20、om one company.cmaking a list of her medical checkups.dstoring her medicines in a safe place.38.where can you find a gift idea to improve your mothers sleep? ain gift no. 1.bin gift no. 2.cin gift no. 3.din gift no. 4.39.buying gifts from presents for purpose allows mothers to_ aenjoy good sleepb be

21、 wellorganizedcget extra supportdgive others helpbit is widely known that any english conversation begins with the weather. such a fixation with the weather finds expression in dr.johnsons famous comment that “when two english meet, their first talk is of weather.” though johnsons observation is as

22、accurate now as it was over two hundred years ago, most commentators fail to come up with a convincing explanation for this english weather-speak.bill bryson, for ezample, concludes that,as the english weather is not at all exciting,the obsession with it can hardly be understood. he argues that”to a

23、n outsider,the most striking thing about the english weather is that there is not very much of it.” simply, the reason is that the unusual and unpredictable weather is almost unknown in the british isles. jeremy paxman, however, disagrees with bryson, arguing that the english weather is by nature at

24、tractive. bryson is wrong, he says,because the english preference for the weather has nothing to do with the natural phenomena.”the interest is less in the phenomena themselves, but in uncertainty.” according to him, the weather in england is very changeable and uncertain and it attracts the english

25、 as well as the outsider. bryson and paxman stand for common misconceptions about the weather-speak among the english. both commentators, somehow, are missing the point. the english weather conversation is not really about the weather at all. english weather-speak is a system of signs ,which is deve

26、loped to help the speakers overcome the natural reserve and actually talk to each other. everyone knows conversations starting with weather-speak are not requests for weather data. rather, they are routine greetings,conversation starters or the blank”fillers”, in other words, english weather-speak i

27、s a means of social bonding.40.the author mentions dr.johnsons comment to show that_. a.most commentators agree with dr.johnson b.dr.johnson is famous for his weather observation c.the comment was accurate two hundred years ago d.english conversations usually start with the weather41.what doe s the

28、underlined word”obsession” most probably refer to? a.a social trend. b.an emotional state. c.a historical concept. d.an unknown phenomenon.42.according to the passage,jeremy paxman believes that_. a.bill bryson has little knowledge of the weather b.there is nothing special about the english weather

29、c.the english weather attracts people to the british isles d.english people talk about the weather for its unccrtainty43.what is the authors main purpose of writing the passage? a.to explain what english weather-speak is about. b.to analyse misconceptions about the english weather. c.to find fault w

30、ith both bill bryson and jeremy paxman. d.to convince people that the english weather is changeable. cmany people think that listening is a passive business. it is just the opposite. listening well is an active exercise of our attention and hard work. it is because they do not realize this, or becau

31、se they are not willing to do the work, that most people do not listen well. listening well also requires total concentration upon someone else. an essential part of listening well is the rule known as bracketing. bracketing includes the temporary giving up or setting aside of your own prejudices an

32、d desires, to experience as far as possible someone elses world from the inside, stepping into his or her shoes. moreover, since listening well involves bracketing, it also involves a temporary acceptance of the other person. sensing this acceptance, the speaker will seem quite willing to open up th

33、e inner part of his or her mind to the listener. true communication is under way and the energy required for listening well is so great that it can be accomplished only by the will to extend oneself for mutual growth. most of the time we lack this energy. even though we may feel in our business deal

34、ings or social relationships that we are listening well, what we are usually doing is listening selectively. often we have a prepared list in mind and wonder, as we listen, how we can achieve certain desired results to get the conversation over as quickly as possible or redirected in ways more satis

35、factory to us. many of us are farmore interested in talking than in listening, or we simply refuse to listen to what we dont want to hear.44. the phrase “stepping into his or her shoes” in paragraph 2 probably means _. a. preparing a topic list first b. focusing on ones own mindc. directing the talk

36、 to the desired results d. experiencing the speakers inside world45. what is mainly discussed in paragraph 2 ? a. how to listen well. b. what to listen to. c. benefits of listening. d. problems in listening46. according to the author , in communication people tend to _. a. listen actively b. listen

37、purposefully c. set aside their prejudices d. open up their inner mind47. according to the author , the patients improved mainly because _. a. they were taken good care of. b. they knew they were truly listened to. c. they had partners to talk to. d. they knew the roots of problems. dwhile jennifer

38、was at home taking an online exam for her business law class, a monitor（监控器）a few hundred miles away was watching her every move. using a web camera equipped in jennifers los angeles apartment, the monitor in phoenix tracked how frequently her eyes moved from the computer screen and listened for the

39、 secret sounds of a possible helper in the room. her internet access was locked - remotely - to prevent internet searches , and her typing style was analyzed to make sure she was who she said she was: did she enter her student number at the same speed as she had in the past? or was she slowing down?

40、 in the battle against cheating, this is the cutting edge and a key to encourage honesty in the booming field of online education. the technology gives trust to the entire system, to the institution and to online education in general. only with solid measures against cheating, experts say, can inter

41、net universities show that their exams and diplomas are valid - that students havent just searched the internet to get the right answers.although online classes have existed for more than a decade, the concern over cheating has become sharper in the last year with the growth of open online courses.

42、private colleges, public universities and corporations are jumping into the online education field, spending millions of dollars to attract potential students, while also taking steps to help guarantee honesty at a distance.aside from the web cameras, a number of other high-tech methods are becoming

43、 increasingly popular. among them are programs that check students identities using personal information, such as the telephone number they once used. other programs can produce unique exam by drawing on a large list of questions and can recognize possible cheaters by analyzing whether difficult tes

44、t question are answered at the same speed as easy ones. as in many university classes, term papers are scanned against some large internet data banks for cheating.48. why was jennifer watched in an online exam? ato correct her typing mistakes.bto find her secrets in the room.cto prevent her from slo

45、wing down.dto keep her from dishonest behaviors.49. the underlined expression cutting edge in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to_. aadvanced techniquebsharpening toolceffective ruleddividing line50. for internet universities, exams and diplomas will be valid if _. athey can attract potential stude

46、ntsbthey can defeat academic cheatingcthey offer students online helpdthey offer many online courses第二节（共 5 小题；每小题 2 分。共 10 分） 根据短文内容，从短文后的七个选项中选出正确的填入空白处。选项中有两项为多余选项。urbanizationuntil relatively recently, the vast majority of human beings lived and died without ever seeing a city. the first city wa

47、s probably founded no more than 5,500 years ago51_ . in fact, nearly everyone lived on farms or in tiny rural (乡村的) villages. it was not until the 20th century that great britain became the first urban society in history- a society in which the majority of people live in cities and do not farm for a

48、 living.britain was only the beginning. 52_ .the process of urbanization- the migration (迁移) of people from the countryside to the city- was the result of modernization, which has rapidly transformed how people live andwhere they live.in 1990, fewer than 40% of americans lived in urban areas. today,

49、 over 82% of americans live in cities. only about 2% live on farms. 53 .large cities were impossible until agriculture became industrialized. even in advanced agricultural societies. it took about ninety-five people on farms to feed five people in cities. _54 . until modern times, those living in ci

50、ties were mainly the ruling elite(精英) and the servants, laborers and professionals who served them. cities survived by taxing farmers and were limited in size by the amount of surplus food that the rural population produced and by the ability to move this surplus from farm to city.a. that kept citie

51、s very small. b. the rest live in small towns.c. the effects of urban living on people should be considered. d. soon many other industrial nations become urban societies.e. but even 200 years ago, only a few people could live in cities.f. modernization drew people to the cities and made farmers more

52、 productive.g. modern cities have destroyed social relations and the health of human beings.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）假定英主事课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请您修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语文错误，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：把多余的词用斜钱（）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只许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。my parents and i went to the park on last sunday. there were lots o