重庆市南开中学高三二诊模拟英语试题及答案

1、重庆市南开中学高2014级二诊模拟考试英语试题本试卷满分120分。考试时间l00分钟。一、单项选择(共15小题；每小题l分，满分l5分)请从a、b、c、d四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答案题卡上将该选项的标号涂黑。1its really _ comfort to the professor that his son has been admitted to _ harvard universityaa , /bthe ，/c/ ，thedthe，the2- sir，may i have two days off next week? - _ . you have two mee

2、tings to attend then ait dependsbof coursecthats for sure dby no means3he told me his story in private，_ nobody else knew what had happened to him abutbsocwhiledor4since 2012，when he _，the soldier has been in the army ahad marriedbhas married cgot marrieddis married5parents are advised to put books

3、_ they are easily accessible to children . awhichbwherecin whichdwho6at the top of the mountain，_ to see the blue sky，the kids made cheerful noises of all kindsadelightedbdelightingchaving delightedddelight7not having found _，he had to go home with empty hands asomethingbeverythingcanythingdnothing8

4、- mum，can i go on a holiday with my classmates this summer vacation? - okyou _ have a chance if you get along well with your studies acouldbshallcmightdmust9it was about ten minutes after we arrived at a small village _ it began to pour down awhenbwherecthatdhow10the director made two films last yea

5、r，one of _ was set in chongqing athembthosecwhatdwhich11a ban is called for by the residents _ people shouldnt walk dogs in that squareawhatbwhethercwhydthat12- why not make a call to jenny right now? - no，wed better notits 3：00 a.m. in londonhe is likely _asleepingbto be sleepingcto have sleptdslep

6、t13hurry up，or by the time we _ at the cinema，the film will ha ve begun ahad arrivedbwill have arrivedcwill arrivedarrive14richard _ injured in the car crash，but i didnt stop him driving after he drank some beer awouldnt have gotbmight not getcmustnt have gotdshould not get15- has he apologized for

7、his rudeness? - _ . ano doubtbno luckcnot yetdnot exactly二、完形填空(共20小题，每小题l.5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、d四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。aa very wealthy mail was standing thoughtfully on a bridgedespite all his riches，he could feel none of happiness but 16 and emptiness in his hearthe 17 to commit suicid

8、e by jumping into the fast-flowing waterwhen he was about to do it，an old beggar 18 him“sir，please give me some money to buy some foodi will pray for your health and long life”hearing this，he 19 his wallet from his pocket and gave all the money inside to the beggar“take all of this，”he said“all of t

9、his?” the beggar 20 he could not believe his good luck“yes，take it alli am going to a place where i wont need it anymore，said the manhe looked back at the river 21 the beggar became suspicious of the mans 22 looking at the money，and holding it for a while，he 23 returned it and said，“no，thank youi wo

10、nt take it! i may be a beggar but im not a coward(懦夫)!bring that money with you to the river，sir!”hearing his response，the man was 24 the satisfaction and happiness of him 25 his money to the beggar disappeared immediatelyhe was not even able to make the beggar receive his sincere soon-to-be-useless

11、 moneyat that moment，he suddenly 26 the feeling that he felt just now，that good feeling and satisfaction from giving others happiness，had indeed 27 become his own true happinessby this he was encouraged，and had found what would make his life worth livinghappiness is only real when 28 16aeagernessbpo

12、vertycsorrowdsuccess17astruggledbwonderedcmanageddintended18aapproachedbinterruptedcpersuadeddshouted19apicked upbtook outcreached fordhanded in20arecalledbrefusedcrepeateddretold21aawaybforwardcasidedbelow22aattitudebordercattentiondpoliteness23adelightedlybhurriedlychopelesslydgenerously24ashocked

13、bterrifiedcworrieddencouraged25asendingbgivingcsupplyingdcontributing26arealizedbhatedcenjoyeddstruck27aby naturebby designcin turndin circles28aboughtbappreciatedcsacrificeddsharedbin your life，nothing happens by chance or by means of good or bad luckeverything 29 to test the limits of your soulwit

14、hout these small tests，life would be like a smoothly paved， 30 ，flat road to nowheresafe and comfortable but dull and pointlessif someone 31 you or breaks your heart，forgive them for they have helped you 32 trust and the importance of being cautious to whom you open your heart toif someone loves you

15、，love them back 33 ，not only because they love you，but because they are teaching you to love and opening your heart and 34 to things you would have never felt or seen without themmake every day countappreciate every 35 and take from it everything that you possibly can，for you will never be able to e

16、xperience it again29atakes boccurscshowsdbreaks30abusy bmuddycstraightdenjoyable31awins binterestscinfluencesdhurts32alook through b1earn aboutcwatch outdadjust to33aunconditionally bdesperatelycintentionallydinstantly34aarms bmouthcbraindeyes35asuccessbfailurecmomentdchallenge三、阅读理解(共20小题；每小题2分，满分4

17、0分)请阅读下列短文，从每篇短文后所给各题的a，b，c，d四个选项中，选出最佳选项。ain december of l 992i was a happy husband and father of two young childrena month later，i was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia(急性白血病)after two years of chemo(化疗)that helped control the disease，my body was weak and lifelessi felt as if i were a pu

18、ppet who needed help to lift his arms or hold up his headi began to runafter six months my strength had come backon one of my runs，one where i felt i could run forever，i decided i was going to try to run a marathonafter telling my dad about my plan，he told me of a program that trains people to run a

19、 marathon，while raising funds for leukemia research at the same timeso that summer，through the leukemia societys team in training program，i started to train for the marine corps marathonduring mile after mile of uncertainty，the day finally came to run the marathonon october 27，1996，at 8 am，along wit

20、h l9,000 other brave souls i started on a 26.2-mile journey that i will never forgeti first saw my wife patty at the six-mile mark . she seemed happy that i was still looking as if i knew what i was doing，and having a good time doing itat mile l7，my mind was going back to those two horrible years th

21、at tried to bring my family and me downi saw her againthe concern in her face told me she knew i was starting to strugglei felt as if we were thinking the same，nine more miles and these last few years will be behind usthat thought alone pulled me forwardmile 22，23，slowing but going，24，25，then there

22、it wasthe iwo jima war memoriali have seen nothing so grand and inspiring in my lifethree hours and forty-one minutes after i started，i crossed what i think has to be the most fitting finish line in all of road racing!that night the leukemia society gave me a pin at a post-race party that simply say

23、s，“leukemia 26.2”if god wills，my cancer may once again take away my hair and my strength，maybe even my lifebut it can never take away my pin，or the fact that i am a marathoner .36the writer decided to run a marathon because _ . ahe wanted to raise money for leukemia research bhe believed he was able

24、 to take the challenge che hoped to recover his strength through training dhis dad knew about the race and made the suggestion37which statement is right about the writer? ahe has always been dreaming of becoming a marathoner bthe training he took that summer well prepared him for the race cthose run

25、ning in the race were mostly leukemia patients like him . dhis wife was with him during the marathon to give him support38why does the writer think the finish line is the most fitting?abecause running a marathon is the most suitable sport for himbbecause the memorial is the most powerful constructio

26、n he has seencbecause he considers it a victory over his disease to finish the racedbecause 26.2 miles is the most reasonable distance for road racing39which of the following can best describe the writer? aoptimistic and outspokenbstrong-willed and determined cgenerous and easy-goingdbrave and warm-

27、heartedbthe slavery drama “12 years a slave” won the academy award for best picture on sunday, making history as the first movie from a black director to win the film industrys highest honor in 86 years of the oscarscan anyone tell me your ideas about this movie? greatmartin“12 years a slave is a su

28、rprisingly underwhelming movieit is more of a string of picture about several heartless and evil white men(and women)who are just mean without the motivation of running a plantation on their mindsthere is very little character development and most of the film relies on what the audience already know

29、s and feels about slavery” 一一geminijefnever have i been stunned into an emotional silence after watching a film in the theaterive come out of films before thinking” my god，that was unbelievable”，like when i saw the lord of the rings for the first time，but this film just hits you on another level ent

30、irelyyou sit there after its over，wondering if what youd just experienced was realthe day afteryou feel the same”一一pauljohnson“this movie is just an average movie about slaveryare you kidding me，segregation movies are a dime a dozen and this movie beat out gravity for golden globes? gravity has neve

31、r been done before12 years a slave i watched once and will never watch againi watched gravity 5 times and still love it一一dominionator“this movie was realistic and engaging at every secondeven the dramatic pauses were worthwhile and definitely not a waste of timethe script inferred and hinted at even

32、ts rather than just plain saying them，and that was geniusoutstanding photography，amazing special effects and the acting is top notchthere were a few people that walked out during some sceneswhat a shame!” 一一apols40the main purpose of greatmartins writing is _ . ato give a brief introduction of the m

33、ovie bto share his own opinions with others cto invite answers to his question dto explain why he asks the question41the underlined word “stunned in the third paragraph probably means _ . apuzzledbshockedcdisappointeddconcerned42among the four speakers，who made positive comments on the movie? agemin

34、ijef and pauljohnsonbpauljohnson and dominionator cgeminijef and dominionatordpauljohnson and apols43which of the following best states pauljotmsons ideas about l2 years a slave? ait leaves little room for character development bit reaches the height of the lord of the rings cit doesnt deserve such

35、high praise dit amazes the audience with its special effectscit is hard to imagine that such a small country，the size of indiana with the population of alaska，tucked in the himalaya mountains，accessible only by two airplanes，is the “happiest country in the world and has one of the fastest growing gd

36、ps in the worldthis country is bhutan，“land of the thunder dragon”，which is located in south asia and is encompassed by india，china，and nepalbhutan is the last standing buddhist kingdom in the world and，until recently，has preserved much of their culture since the l7th century by avoiding globalizati

37、on and staying isolated from the worldinternet，television，and western dress were banned from the country up until ten years agoover the past ten years globalization has begun to change in bhutan，but things remain perfectly balancedbhutan is the only country in the world that has a gnh，which refers t

38、o “gross national happinessthe process of measuring gnh began when bhutan opened up to globalizationit measures peoples quality of life，and makes sure that “material and spiritual development happen together”bhutan has done an amazing job of finding this balancebhutan has continually been ranked as

39、the happiest country in all of asia，and the eighth happiest country in the world according to business weekin 2007，bhutan had the second fastest growing gdp in the world，at the same time as maintaining their environment and cultural identityin 2008，in bhutans first democratic election，28-year-old ji

40、gme khesar namgyel wang chuck was elected president of bhutanhe promises to “maintain a stance （立场)of protection against the worst aspects of globalization，maintaining the gross national happiness”but jigme himself is no stranger to globalizationhe attended high school at phillips academy and univer

41、sity at wheaton college and then graduated from oxford44the underlined word “encompassed in the first paragraph most probably means _ . acoveredbsurroundedcseparateddguarded45why is bhutan regarded as “the happiest country”? abecause it changes its policy and begins to open up bbecause it uses “gnh”

42、 to measure its achievement cbecause it stresses both material and spiritual development dbecause it has the second fastest growing gdp in the world46what can we infer from the last paragraph? athe election in bhutan is far from satisfactory bglobalization has influenced bhutans religion cjigmes edu

43、cational background will cause distrust dpeople in bhutan will continue living a happy life47which of the following shows the structure of the passage?dcoffee is a powerful beverageon a personal level，it helps keep us awake and activeon a much broader level，it has helped shape our history and contin

44、ues to shape our culturecoffee didnt take off until the l400s when people figured out they could roast its seedsby the l500s，the drink had spread to coffeehouses across the arab worldwithin another l50 years，it took europe by storm“it actually had a major impact on the rise of business，” historian m

45、ark pendergrast sayscoffeehouses became a spot not just to enjoy a cup but to exchange ideasthe insurer lloyds of london was founded hundreds of years ago in one of londons 2,000 coffeehousesliterature，newspapers and even the works of great composers like bach and beethoven were also spawned(涌现)in c

46、offeehousesit is often said that after the boston tea party of l773，when american colonists attacked british tea ships and threw boxes of tea into the harbor，americans universally switched over to drinking coffeein a letter john adams wrote to his wife，abigail，the founding father claims his love of

47、tea but says he will have to learn to embrace coffee instead，because drinking tea had become a symbol of not loving the countryfor all the upsides coffee has brought the modern world，it also led to its fair share of downsides，tooeuropeans carried coffee with them as they colonized various parts of t

48、he world，and this frequently meant they enslaved people in order to grow itin brazil where slavery was legal until l888 coffee plantations would use slash-and-burn agriculture，tearing down rain forests and planting coffee treesonce the soil had been exhausted，growers would move on to another placean

49、d yet，coffee，as pendergrast says，”had a very good impact in many ways on our civilization，even though it was，for a long time，grown by slaves”48why did people enjoy going to coffeehouses? abecause it was a fashion to drink coffee bbecause coffeehouses provided a better flavor cbecause they could stay

50、 awake and active there dbecause they could exchange ideas there49what can we learn from the fourth paragraph? aamerican colonists made great profits by trading in coffee btea was regarded as a symbol of loving ones country ccoffee became very popular after the incident in boston djohn adams was the

51、 founding father of the tea party50in the fifth paragraphthe writer points out that _ .acoffee plantation was closely connected with slavery bcoffee plantation led to outdated agriculture in brazil cslavery in brazil had been against the law until l888 dslavery was responsible for the damage to rain

52、forests 5 1what is mainly talked about in this passage? asome interesting stories about coffee culture bimportant roles that coffee played in history chow coffee became the most popular beverage dhow coffee affected americas independencee why do we laugh and get amusement from so many different thin

53、gs，from puns (双关语) to pratfalls? why are some things funny to some people and not to others? how is that while a successful joke can cause pleasure，a sick one can cause serious harm? over the centuries，various scholars have attempted to produce a universally agreed-upon theory of humorplato and aris

54、totle introduced the superiority(优越感) theory，the idea that people laugh at the misfortune of otherstheir theory seems to explain teasing，but it doesnt work well for knock-knock jokessigmund freud argued for his relief theory，the concept that humor is a way for people to release psychological tension

55、 and reveal their inner fears and desireshis theory works well for dirty jokes，less well for most puns the majority of humor expels today agree with the incongruity theory，the idea that humor arises when theres a gap between what people expect to happen and what actually happensincongruity has a lot going for it jokes wit