七七 | 大戰(zhàn)高考英語模擬卷

1??A

Tired of your summer break? Here comes a list of best sellers on Amazon.com

Born a Crime

By Noah Trevor

Born a Crime is the story of a naughty young boy in South Africa, who grows into a restless young man, the author of the book, as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless and religious mother. “Don't cry, Trevor. Trevor, listen. Listen to me. Listen.” “My child, you must look on the bright side.” It was Mother's faith and positive attitude that shaped the young man.

How It Feels to Float

By Helaia Fox

If you're looking for a moving story that explores themes of mental illness, grief (悲痛), and love, pick up a copy of How It Feels to Float and follow Biz as she comes of age. This moving novel will stay with you long after you finish reading it.

1. Which books are about growth?

• A. How It Feels to Float and Two Can Keep a Secret.
• B. Born a Crime and How It Feels to Float.?
• C. Two Can Keep a Secret and Dune.
• D. How It Feels to Float and Dune.

Two Can Keep a Secret

By Karen M. MeManus

Put on your crime-solving cap and get swept away in this thriller about a girl, a boy, and a string of unsolved murders. As threats and clues pile up, you’ll be burning the midnight oil trying to finish the book before dawn.

• thriller：n. 驚悚小說

2. What is Two Can Keep a Secret mainly about?

• A. Challenges of growing up.
• B. A girl's space adventures.
• C. battling for control of another planet.
• D. The murders remaining to be settled.?

Dune

By Frank Herbert

If the Star Wars movies have made you fall in love with the space opera, eventually you're going to read Frank Herbert's most famous creation. The story of centuries-old political plotting — about warring factions（派系）battling over control of the extremely valuable planet Arrakis — is a classic and remains a wonderful introduction to the larger, more complex world of science fiction just beyond the Star Wars trilogies.

3. What kind of book is Dune?

• A. A love story.
• B. A science-fiction story.?
• C. An autobiography.
• D. A fairy tale.

2??B

Born on a farm in 1876, Mordecai Brown couldn’t have imagined his life as a Major League Baseball pitcher (投手). When he helped his parents at age 5, his right hand accidentally was caught in a corn harvester, losing parts of two fingers or three fingers left. However, his disabled hand did not keep him from doing what other boys of his age were doing, like playing baseball.

4. What can we learn about Mordecai from Paragraph1?

• A. His dream was to become a pitcher.
• B. He felt desperate to lose his fingers.
• desperate：adj. 絕望的
• C. His accident did not influence his life.?
• D. He was afraid to get along with other boys.

While working as a coal miner in his twenties, Mordecai joined a baseball team made up of fellow coal miners. In 1898, the team’s pitcher injured his arm. The manager ordered Mordecai to act as the pitcher. Mordecai shook his head and held up his right hand as a reminder. But the manager didn’t care. “Since you have the best arm on the team, you will have to pitch.” Finally, his team won the game nine to three.

In 1903, Mordecai Brown broke into Major League Baseball when he signed with the St. Louis Cardinals. Only a year later, the management of the Cardinals decided that Mordecai’s disability would keep him from ever becoming a star pitcher. They traded him to the Chicago Cubs.

5. In 1904, what happened to Mordecai Brown?

• B. He broke into Major League Baseball.
• C. He was much worse than before.
• D. He contributed to the success of the match.

On a sunny October afternoon in 1908, thousands of people went to New York City’s Polo Grounds to see the New York Giants and the Chicago Cubs battle. Mordecai was not the pitcher at first. He watched as the chosen starter faced the batters (擊球員) for the New York Giants. Soon, the batters were filling the bases.

Then, Mordecai was asked to be the pitcher. It seemed that the unfavorable condition didn’t affect him. He held the ball with his three fingers firmly and let it go. Strike one! Strike two! Strike three! The batter was out. And soon, the game was over. The Cubs beat the Giants, four to two.

6. How did he help his team win the game in 1908?

• A. He shouted “Strike!” for times to frighten the batter.
• B. He left the batter no chance to get the ball.?
• C. He let the ball go in different directions.
• D. He struck the ball out directly.

Mordecai went on to pitch, winning one game after another, and retired after the 1916 season. In 1949, Mordecai Peter entered the National Baseball Hall of Fame in New York, earning him a well-deserved place in baseball history.

7. What is the best title for the text?

• A. Fighting for Fame
• B. Growing on the team
• C. A Three-fingered Star?
• D. The Most Pitiful Baseball Pitcher

3??C

It's good to share, right? Growing up as kids we are told to share our toys and not be selfish. We also live in an age where discussing our feelings is encouraged. But when does it all become too much? With new fashion trending all the time, such as dance challenges and wearing a pillow as a dress, the question is: when can sharing become oversharing on social media?

What is oversharing? The term has become associated with social media, but it doesn't only belong to this platform. Imagine you head to a party and you meet someone. Within five minutes they have given away details about their personal life. While some of us may try to escape these people, according to marriage therapist Carolyn Cole, this form of oversharing could come from a strong desire to connect with someone. But how does this translate to social media?

8. Why do some people try to overshare at parties?

• A. Because they want to catch others' attention.
• B. Because they just want to show off something.
• C. Because they have a strong desire to pour out their emotions.
• D. Because they may expect to make a connection with someone.?

Dr. Christopher Hand, a lecturer in internet psychology, says the more details people disclose, the less sympathy we express when things go wrong. This could be due to a belief that we attract our own negative experiences the more we share them. It seems that the idea of searching for sympathy by oversharing, is generally viewed as negative rather than the cry for help it could actually be.

• attract：v. 吸引

9. What does the underlined word in Para.3 mean?

• A. explore
• B. expose?
• C. display：展示
• D. discuss

However, Dr Hand's research also seems to suggest that the more positive posts we share on a platform, the more socially attractive we become. Even back in 2015, Gwendolyn Seidman PhD, said that we should avoid complaining and being negative online. We are supposed not to show off, as it's now known—especially about our love lives. It makes sense—if your date is going 'that well', would you really have time to share a photo with text?

10. What can we know from the passage?

• A. We will become more socially attractive if we post more on a platform.
• B. We tend to show sympathy when things go wrong.
• C. We may be considered negative when seeking for sympathy by oversharing.?
• D. We can show off something positive especially about our love lives.

So, how can you know if you are oversharing? Well, why not ask your friends in real life. They would probably be more than happy to tell you if your posts about your breakfast or your complaint about your lack of money really are too much.

11. What is the purpose of the text?

• A. To inform.
• B. To inspire.
• C. To advertise.
• D. To condemn.?
• condemn：v. 譴責(zé)

4??D

For sports fans, nothing could be better than watching a live event on TV or at a sports field. But there’s nothing worse than that event being called off because of bad weather. Bad light, a water-logged court or too much heat can cause matches to be postponed. But according to the latest research, extreme weather might be disturbing the sporting calendar more than ever in the future.

12. What is the latest research above mainly concerned with?

• A. the forbidden sporting events
• B. the influential climate change?
• C. the severe environmental pollution
• D. the rising sea level

In one sport, golf, major tournaments like The Open, are already predicted to be victims of our changing climate. In the UK, an organization called The Climate Coalition says that golf courses such as St Andrews could be under water by the end of the century if sea levels rise even slightly. It told the BBC that its research predicts "cancelled football matches, flooded cricket grounds and golf courses sinking into the sea."

The threat to sporting events from climate change has been further highlighted in a new report, officially approved and licensed by the Rapid Transition Alliance. Writing about this for the BBC, Matt McGrath says that "By 2050, it's estimated that almost one in four English football league grounds can expect flooding every year." This will mean fewer matches played, less opportunity to watch the beautiful game and reduced government taxation from ticket sales.

Cricket also faces huge challenges globally as temperatures rise in places like India, Australia and the West Indies. The report says that stadiums in Adelaide and Perth will see a 60% increase in days with temperatures over 40 degrees centigrade over the next decade.

13. What influence will the extreme weather have on the sports?

• A. Football fans cannot afford the entrance fee.
• B. Overheat will largely affect the cricket calendar.?
• C. The golf games will thoroughly disappear due to rising sea level.
• D. Sports leaders will face bigger challenges to lead their teams to win.

Of course, we know that the solution lies with reducing our carbon footprint. We could travel less to attend sports events, and reduce our waste when we do go. But this latest report finds that sports leaders are generally failing to address the issue seriously. However, because sport is universally popular and can be very influential, maybe it should be players, teams and their sponsors as well as fans who should promote a wide low carbon message to help protect sporting fields—before it’s 'game over'.

14. What does the underlined part “the issue” refer to in the last paragraph?

• A. the constant increase in sea level
• B. the fading popularity of sport events
• C. the changing attitude of sponsors.
• D. the effective reduction of carbon footprint?

15. The research is introduced to us mainly to ___________.

• A. inform the readers of the worsening global climate change
• B. require governments’ protection of sporting fields
• C. promote awareness of low carbon life on sports?
• D. urge financial support from sponsors

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Happy, angry, amazed – these are some of the emotions we like to express these days when we're sending a message on our smartphones! Many of us now add little pictures to our texts to brighten up someone’s mobile screen. 16_E. We're also using them as a quick way of telling someone how we're feeling. Emojis have become a vital tool for communication.

The emoji was first invented in Japan in the late 1990s and the word 'emoji' comes from the Japanese words for 'picture' and 'character'. 17 D. The number of different images has dramatically increased since then. Now we have a picture for every mood or situation.

So now we have the option to give this new creation the visual 'thumbs-up' but have you thought (puzzled face) why we've become so addicted to using emojis? 18 F. They really do enable us to express our emotional selves much more effectively. Emojis are a sort of substitute for the visual or non- verbal signals we normally give when we speak to someone face-to-face.

Another advantage of emojis is that they are an international language – they don't use words but tell a message in pictorial form so they can be easily interpreted whatever your native language. However, the emojis you send need some thought. 19_A. They can sometimes be misinterpreted– if a friend sends you an emoji of a hammer, you may think he is angry when he is saying he has hurt himself or he is clumsy!

Emojis are a good way for showing empathy—they are a virtual hug or a loving pat. But as linguist Neil Cohn says, "20_G. To many, emojis are taking over conventional face-to-face communication; to others, they are posing a threat to our language." It does show there is a lot more to our communication than words alone but does this mean the decline in traditional writing?

• A. They can sometimes be misinterpreted
• B. They are widely adopted in people’s daily communication
• C. To many, emoji are an exciting evolution of the way we communicate
• D. The number of different images has dramatically increased since then
• E. We're also using them as a quick way of telling someone how we're feeling
• F. They really do enable us to express our emotional selves much more effectively
• G. To many, emojis are taking over conventional face-to-face communication
• take over：接管，代替

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During my first seven semesters as a medical student, I 21_committed?myself to studying and 22_rarely spoke?with real patients in a hospital. Then I started visiting local hospitals to gather data for my essay. One cold evening, I was “hunting" for the final three patients I needed to complete my study. The records showed a 43-year-old patient, Ms. A, was in the ward still 23 recovering from her recent stroke（中風(fēng)）. No relatives or friends with her. When I sat down on a chair next to her bed and told her my 24 intention, she agreed. The questionnaire 25 consisted of three simple questions. Before I could?26 rise after finishing it, Ms. A spoke up in her weak voice. “Doc, do you think I can get back my normal life?”?Deep in my heart, I thought, God, I wish I was your doctor so I could answer you properly. I replied that 27 while I didn't know much about her case, I could tell her what I had learned about the recovery of stroke patients. Ms. A then talked about herself. She told me that her husband died and her pay as a cleaner was 28 merely enough for her kids. I didn't know what to say. Looking into her eyes, I tried to remember the lessons from a communication skills class a few years earlier, but my mind was 29 black.?Without realizing it, I had begun holding Ms. A's hand. Since I didn't have anything to say, I just sat quietly while she talked. That's when it 30 occurred to me that she was not expecting any 31 reply from me. She just wanted me to listen. All I did was nodding my head as a way of showing my 32 sympathy. Finally, Ms. A stopped talking. “I'm very sorry for keeping you here to listen to my problems, but I feel 33 relieved now.” A single tear fell from the corner of her eye. Finally, I knew what to say. “It's OK, Ma'am. It's part of my 34 duty.”

• commit：v. 犯錯；投入；致力于
• relieved：adj. 放心的，寬恕的

Ms. A taught me one of the most important lessons a doctor can learn. Sometimes patients do not need expensive medicine or technology. They just need someone with the?35 patience and willingness to lend an ear and spare a little of their time.

7??語法填空

Blue jeans have always been with us and are here to stay. They may be a comfortable and convenient choice, but blue jeans could be harming 36 the planet. Microfibers（微纖維）of jeans 37 have been discovered（discover）in water samples in the past 6 months. The survey of a team in Canada found that one in four of all microfibers in the samples 38 taken（take）across Canada, from Toronto to the Arctic were blue jeans.

Some of the microfibers were found at a 39 depth（deep）of 1500 meters, but （40 why they could travel a long distance） was still unknown. To find the reason, scientists have tested various samples including the highest concentrations found in shallow lakes near big cities. 41 Although the survey was limited to Canada, the team believes the similar situation would be found in other countries.

The researcher also threw light on a truth that around 50,000 microfibers 42 which fell off the surface of jeans would find their way into our bodies every time they were cleaned. While the researchers were not sure what the effect of the microfibers might have 43 on the environment or health, Samantha Athey at the University of Toronto points out the microfibers involved are chemically treated.?44 It is believed that washing jeans less often could help reduce the pollution 45 effectively（effective）.