海南省海口市海口中学2016届高三第二次模拟考试英语试卷

海口中学2016届高三第二次模拟考试

英语

时量：120分钟 分值：150分

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）

第一节 （共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）

听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。

1. What does the woman like collecting best?
   1. Stamps. B. Coins. C. Train tickets.
2. Which country found lovely music is good for people’s hearts?
   1. America.B. Australia.C. Russia.
3. What is the woman eager to buy?
   1. Ice creams. B. Candy.C. Drinks.
4. Where are the two speakers?
   1. In the bank. B. In the classroom. C. In the supermarket.
5. What prevented the woman calling the man yesterday?
   1. She lost her cellphone.
   2. Her cellphone was power off.
   3. Her teacher took her cellphone away.
      第二节 (共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分)
      听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
      听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. What is the woman looking for?
   1. A casual dress. B. A business suit. C. An evening dress.
7. What will the woman do next?
   1. Try on the clothes. B. Bargain with the man. C. Pay for the clothes in cash.
      听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. How old is the woman's grandfather?
   1. 78. B. 79. C. 80.
9. What did the woman's grandfather do last winter?
   1. He went in the hospital.
   2. He went on a cycling holiday.
   3. He attended a skiing contest.
      听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What are the speakers arguing about?
    1. Who to blame. B. Which way to go. C. What transport to take.
11. Why did the policeman stop the speakers?
    1. They took the wrong shortcut.
    2. They drove beyond the speed limit.
    3. They went through the red light.
12. What was the initial reason for what happened to the speakers?
    1. The woman didn’t prefer to travel by train.
    2. The man failed to ask the way.
    3. The man forgot to book tickets earlier.
       听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. What is the basic purpose of the IQ tests?
    1. To test who is brighter.
       B. To test language and numerical ability.
       C. To judge an individual talents.
14. What makes so many unhappy parents in the world?
    1. Their children being stupid.
       B. Their children’s failing in the exams.
       C. Their children’s abilities not being developed.
15. Why do some children do badly in school exams?
    1. They are not good with words and numbers.
       B. They do not study hard enough.
       C. They are looked down upon by others in school.
16. How can a person be happy?
    1. Putting your skills to good use.
    2. Having a higher IQ.
    3. Doing well in the exams.
       听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. What is the conductor like?
    1. Anxious.B. Absent-minded.C. Kind-hearted.
18. What should Mr. Mora do in Princeton?
    1. Give a lecture.
       B. Meet an old friend.
       C. Visit a university.
19. Why must Mr. Mora find the ticket?
    1. He might be fined.
       B. He forgot the destination.
       C. He wrote something important on it.
20. What kind of person is Mr. Mora?
    1. Forgetful.B. Careful. C. Bad-tempered.
       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）
       A
       I really hadn't meant to yell at them. But that grey afternoon saw it just as my son and daughter were making a terrible mess on the floor in the kitchen.
       With a tiresome report to write, I felt bothered at my desk. Suddenly, it occurred to me that my kids were at fault. A voice inside me insisted that I do something quickly.
       “OK, you two here, but what an awful thing you are attempting!” shouting angrily, I made for them, while it became evident that the boy wanted no part of me. “Get away from us!” he shouted back, there being expression of support from his sister.
       All of a sudden, I found the fault in myself. Quickly I shaped my hands into pincers（螃蟹螯;钳子）and crawled towards them, “Crabby（似螃蟹的）Daddy is here. Ha, Ha, Ha, he likes to yell at children, and then eat them!” My son continued to keep me away, but now he was laughing and crying at the same time. My mission to repair the damage caused by my yelling seemed to work well. Still, I regretted not having controlled myself first in a right way that my children could do after.
       Need I let them know how badly they were acting by blaming? This is a lesson that serves myself. It only shows just how to get rid of something（ill-feelings, responsibility）by blaming others. It's not my “best self”.
       We have to search for our “best self” when with our children. They don't need perfect parents, but they do need parents who are always trying to get better. Here, I'm reminded of the words of a great thinker, “When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook…” Then, in our lifetime, couldn't we always speak to our kids in such a sweet voice since most of us consider them as the most precious in the world? And before we reach this level, what should we do when we come across various difficult cases with our children?  
21. The author couldn't help yelling at his kids this time probably because___________.

1. the weather was so unpleasant             B. a Daddy has his right to do so

C. the kids didn't ask him to join them        D. he was tired of his boring work

22. Which of the following made the author aware of his fault?   

1. No obvious reason.                            B. The children’s reaction.

C. His self-control.                                    D. The mess made by the children.

23. According to the passage the author will __________in another similar situation.

1. play a crab again like this time                B. apologize to kids in a sincere way

C. avoid blaming kids in a hurry                       D. beat them up about such things

24. What will the writer go on to write about in the next paragraph(s)? 

1. How to behave ourselves properly when kids are at fault.
2. How to blame our children in a more interesting way.
3. How to deal with the terrible mess made by our kids.
4. How to persuade children to do what they are told to.
   B
   Can you believe your eyes? A recent experiment suggests that the answer to that question may depend on your age．
   Martin Doherty，a psychologist at the University of Stirling in Scotland，led the team of scientists．In this experiment，Doherty and his team tested the perception(观察力)of some people，using pictures of some orange circles．The researchers showed the same pictures to two groups of people．The first group included 151 children aged 4 to 10，and the second group included 24 adults aged 18 to 25．
   The first group of pictures showed two orange circles alone on a white background．One of the circles was larger than the other，and these people were asked to identify the larger one．Four-year-olds identified the correct circle 79 percent of the time．Adults identified the correct circle 95 percent of the time．
   Next，both groups were shown pictures where the orange circles，again of different sizes，were surrounded by gray circles．Here’s where the trick lies．In some of the pictures，the smaller orange circle was surrounded by even smaller gray circles—making the orange circle appear larger than the other orange circle，which was the real larger one．And the larger orange circle was surrounded by even bigger gray circles—so it appeared to be smaller than the real smaller orange circle．
   When young children aged 4 to 6 looked at these tricky pictures，they weren’t fooled—they were still able to find the bigger circle with roughly the same accuracy as before．Older children and adults，on the other hand，did not do as well．Older children often identified the smaller circle as the larger one，and adults got it wrong most of the time．
   As children get older，Doherty said，their brains may develop the ability to identify visual context．In other words，they will begin to process the whole picture at once：the tricky gray circles，as well as the orange circle in the middle．As a result，they’re more likely to fall for this kind of visual trick．
   25．Doherty and his team of scientists did an experiment to evaluate______．
   A．children’s and adults’ eye-sight
   B．people’s ability to see accurately
   C．children’s and adults’ brains
   D．the influence of people’s age
   26．When asked to find the larger circle，_____．
   A．children at 6 got it wrong 79％of the time with no gray ones around
   B．only adults over 18 got it right 95％of the time with gray ones around
   C．children at 4 got it right about 79％of the time with gray ones around
   D．adults got it right most of the time with gray ones around    
   27．According to the passage，we can know that_____．
   A．a smaller orange circle appears bigger on a white background
   B．an orange circle appears bigger than a gray one of the same size
   C．a circle surrounded by other circles looks bigger than its real size
   D．a circle surrounded by bigger ones looks smaller than its real size
   28．Why are younger children not fooled?
   A．Because they are smarter than older children and adults．
   B．Because older people are influenced by their experience．
   C．Because people’s eyes become weaker as they grow older．
   D．Because their brain can hardly notice related things together．
   C
   Micro bloggers: have you ever compared the number of fans on your Sina Weibo or Tencent micro blog with those of your friends? Don’t imagine you have more fans just because your number is bigger–some of them might be “zombie fans”, or fake followers.
   That’s what Chen Chuanliang, creator of Lejian Network, found when he bet against his friend several months ago. Chen, who used to do search and data mining (数据挖掘)for Microsoft Asia Research Institute, then ran a statistical analysis and screened(屏蔽) all the null accounts among his fans. Not only did he find that he had more real micro blog followers than his friend, he also discovered that there were far more null micro blog accounts than he had imagined.
   Later Chen randomly picked 10 celebrity users on Sina Weibo and analyzed their statistics. Kai-Fu Lee, the former CEO of Google China, who’s on Chen’s list of research, posted a message on his micro blog after he found out that he had more than 1 million fake fans (out of about 5 million), joking “I have 1 million zombie fans? If united, we can finally defeat those plants.”
   According to a report by S Weekly in March, zombie fans on micro blogs are defined as invalid accounts signed up by network companies for the purpose of increasing the number of fans for certain users, especially celebrity ones, and getting them more attention.
   And this kind of fake followers are also very much alive on Western social networks such as Twitter and Facebook. The Financial Times reported in August, that Newt Gingrich, a Republican candidate in the US presidential election, bought about 80 percent of his 1.3 million Twitter followers and tried to use them as help in his campaign.
   Now there are also business deals through which users can get hundreds of thousands of fans for their micro blog accounts, by paying a small amount of money.
   “We have been working to find ways to block or delete those invalid accounts,” Mao Taotao, a spokesperson for Sina Weibo told S Weekly.
   “But as the fake accounts grow so fast, they’re going to be here for a while.”
   29. What do “null accounts” mean in paragraph 2? _______.
   1. famous accounts B. useful account

C. fake accounts D. unfamiliar accounts

30. How can users get zombie fans for their micro blog accounts?_______.

1. by making friends with people B. by doing search on Internet

C. by screening their weibo followers D. by paying money

31. What does the quoted sentence mean in para.3? _______.

1. Zombie fans are too much, even out of his imagination.
2. He wants to play the famous computer games with those zombie fans.
3. The more zombie fans are, the better he feels.
4. Zombie fans are good for defeating plants in real world.

32. What is the purpose of having zombie fans?_______.

1. to unit them to defeat plants.
2. to increase the number of fans for certain users to getting more attention.
3. to earn a large amount of money for the users
4. to do search and data mining for Microsoft Asia Research Institue

D

One of the greatest sources of unhappiness, in my experience, is the difficulty we have in accepting things as they are.

When we see something we don’t like, we wish it could be different. We cry out for something better. That may be human nature, or perhaps it’s something ingrained(根深蒂固的) in our culture. The root of the unhappiness isn’t necessarily that we want things to be different. However, it’s that we decided we didn’t like it in the first place. We’ve judged it as bad, rather than saying, “ It’s not bad or good, and it just is it.”

In one of my books, I said “You should expect people to mess up and expect things to go differently than you planned”. Some readers said it’s too sorrowful to expect things to go wrong. However, it’s only negative if you see it as negative and judge it as bad. Instead, you could accept it as the way the world works and try to understand why that is.

This can be applied to whatever you do: how other people act at work, how politics works and how depressing the news media can be. Accept these things as they are, and try to understand why they’re that way. Itwill save you a lot of sadness, because you’ll no longer say, “Oh. I wish bad things didn’t happen.”

Does it mean you can never change things? Not at all. But change things not because you can’t accept things as they are, but because you enjoy the process of changing, learning and growing.

Can we make this world a better place? You can say that you’ll continue to try to do things to help others, to grow as a person, to make a difference in this world. That’s the correct path you choose to take, because you enjoy that path. Therefore, when you find yourself judging and wishing for difference, try a different approach: accept and understand. It might lead to some interesting results.

33. The author believes that we feel unhappy maybe because _______.

A. it is our natural emotion in the life.

B. culture asks us to be different from others.

C. everyone has their own opinions on things

D. we dislike something in the beginning.

34. In paragraph 4, the underlined word “it” refers to_______.

A. acting well at work and in politics

B. feeling depressed for the news media

C. accepting and understanding what has happened

D. saying something negative when bad things come

35. What is the best title of the passage?

A. Expecting things to be different gives us hope

B. Accepting can make our life happier and better

C. Traditional culture becomes root of unhappiness

D. Judging good or bad is important for our world

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。

 Worry problems are everywhere in our daily life. How to solve them? The answer is that we must equip ourselves to deal with different kinds of worries by learning the three basic steps of problem analysis. The three steps are:

Get the facts

Why is it so important to get the facts? Unless you have the facts, you can’t possibly attempt to solve your problem intelligently. Without the facts, all you can do is wondering around in confusion. It is not an easy job to get facts. When you are worried, your emotions are riding high.   36  .

When trying to get the facts, you can pretend that you are collecting this information not for yourself but for some other person. __37. You can also pretend that you are a lawyer preparing to agree. Try to get all the facts both on your side and the other side of the case. You will generally find the truth lies somewhere in between.

　38　 

Whenever you are worried, write down the questions that make you worry. And write out all the various steps you could take and then the probable consequences of each step. For example, what am I worrying about? What can I do about it? Here is what I’m going to do about it. After carefully weighing all the facts, you can calmly come to a decision.

Act on that decision.                                                  

　39　　. How can you break the worry habit before it breaks you? Crowd worry out of your mind by keeping busy. Plenty of action is one of the best ways to cure worry  40 . If you know a situation is beyond your power, say to yourself: “ It is so; it can’t be otherwise.” Don’t permit little things to ruin your happiness. Try to cultivate a mental attitude that will bring you peace and happiness.

A. Analyze the facts.

B. Accept what can’t be avoided.

C. But here are two ideas that can help you see the facts in a clear and objective way.

D. There comes a time when you must decide and never look back.

E. Unless you take your action, all your face-finding and analysis is a sheer waste of energy.

F. Decide how much anxiety a thing may be worth.

G. This will help you to take a cold and fair view of the evidence  

第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）

1. 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

Two years ago, Shirley, wife, mother and doctor, found herself worn out.  She got up earlier, and went to bed later, just to meet everyday  __41__， but lacked   __42__   for the things that mattered most.

She and her husband, a lawyer, began searching for ways to   __43_ their lives. “We had to decide what was really   __44__，” says Shirley. They knew they wanted more time to   __45__ with their three-year-old son, to exercise and eat right, and to develop friendship.

So the couple chose to live more simply, shopping with care for necessities and enjoying inexpensive   _46___ such as reading, cooking and going to the park.

Then Shirley   __47__ her job and began working part time. She printed business cards that     __48__  “At your service, buy  __49__  a little time” and helped clients (客户) with personal tasks  like shopping, paying bills and   _50___  parties. “I still work hard, but being able to control my  hours makes a   __51__，” she says, “I can spare time to take my son to the   __52__   or play  basketball with him. My stress and headaches are   __53__.”

Shirley and her husband are   __54__   alone in wanting to   ___55_  and live a satisfying life. A survey found that 54 percent of parents say they have little time with their children, and  47 percent of married couples  __56__  that they lack time together.   __57__ does the time go?

For most people,  _58___  and commuting (通勤) take up most of the day. Simplifying means becoming   __59__ of the ways we use money, time and energy, and finding ways to make things easier. Then we have to gain   __60__ over life and have time for the pleasures.

41.A.activities          B．services            C．demands             D．exercises

42.A.time                B．strength           C．money                D．ability

43.A.lead                 B．simplify           C．adapt                 D．consider

44.A.comfortable     B．interesting       C．important            D．hard

45.A.study              B．help               C．meet                D．play

46.A.pleasures         B．places              C．tasks                  D．goods

47.A.found              B．received           C．took                 D．quit

48.A.read                B．wrote             C．showed               D．told

49.A.us                   B．yourself            C．children               D．herself

50.A.attending          B．organizing        C．having               D．going

51.A.life                B．result             C．balance               D．difference

52.A.office               B．hospital           C．park                 D．school

53.A.gone                B．better             C．strong                D．obvious

54.A.a bit                B．far from           C．much too             D．more than

55.A.keep pace        B．settle down       C．take off              D．slow down

56.A.expect              B．doubt             C．complain             D．imagine

57.A.How                B．When             C．Where               D．Why

58.A.traveling            B．reading            C．shopping             D．working

59.A.aware                B．afraid              C．proud                 D．sure

60.A.value                B．control             C．success                D．experience

第二节 语法填空（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(不多于3个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。 

A 24-year-old Long Island man was charged early Thursday morning after crashing his car and killing his girlfriend while driving over the speed limit. Kevin Daly____61___(sentence) to nearly three years in prison after losing control of ___62___partner Alice Hicks’ car on a country road ___63__80mph. She was a passenger in the Mini-cooper and was thrown from the car ___64__ he crashed into another vehicle ___65___(move) in the opposite direction. Daly, 24, denied causing 　__66____(die) by dangerous driving and was found ___67___(guilt) by a jury (陪审团) at Taunton Crown Court. The court heard that neither Daly __68___Miss Hicks, 22, was wearing seatbelts at the time of the collision that happened on November 17, 2011. NBC New York reports Kevin Daly was driving on County Road 83 when the road was blocked by a truck that was waiting __69___(turn) right. Witnesses described that Daly had little or no chance of stopping behind the still traffic and he turned to avoid the van ___70___ hit a Mazda on the other side of the road.

第II卷

第四部分 写作（共两节，满分35分）

1. 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。作文中共有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：在缺词处加一个漏子符号（∧）并在其下面写出该加的词。
   删除：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。
   Online shopping is increasing popular among people in recent years. Some people liked to buy goods online. And I don’t like it, because online shopping is more reliable than the traditional sale. Firstly, some dishonest merchant offer customers to false information online. Secondly, consumers can’t feel the items that is usually presented by means of pictures. This means the items delivering may differ from which consumers expect. As a result, they may risk returning the items at their own expense. Thirdly, the items might be damaged during delivery. In word, online shopping isn’t reliable at all.
2. 书面表达（满分25分）

假定你是李华，两周前你从网上订购了一套英语书虫系列读物（Bookworm Series）,昨天才到货，且包装破损，数量不足。请就此向网店客服写邮件投诉。要点如下：

1. 介绍购物情况；
2. 反映存在的问题；
3. 提出解决方案。

注意：1. 词数100左右；

2. 可适当给增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

参考词汇：投诉 complaint

To whom it may concern.

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Looking forward to your reply.

Li Hua