广东省番禺中学2015届高三上学期第二次段考英语试题（无答案）

广东番禺中学2014—2015学年高三第二次段考试题
英 语

本试卷共10页，三部分，六大题，满分135分。考试用时120分钟。
注意事项：
答卷前，考生务必用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的姓名和考生号、试室号、座位号填写在答题卡上，并用2B铅笔在答题卡上的相应位置填涂考生号。
选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目选项(E:AB, F:CD)的答案信息点涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案，答案不能答在试卷上。
非选择题必须用黑色字迹钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内相应位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。
4. 考生必须保持答题卡的整洁。考试结束后，将试卷和答题卡一并交回。
I、语言知识及运用 （共两节，满分60分）
第一节完形填空(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1～15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
If you ask me when I became a mom, I can tell you that the day I became a mom was not the day my daughter was born, but seven years later when I did the best thing I could do for my daughter and myself. I 1 us from the home that wasn’t really a home at all because of my alcoholic husband.
That day, my daughter and I were sitting in our 2 home having a quiet dinner just as I had always wanted for her. We were talking about what she had done in school and suddenly her little hand 3 the full glass of milk by her plate. As I watched the white tablecloth and 4 painted white wall become dark brown, I looked at her small face. It was filled with 5 , knowing what the outcome of the event would have meant in her father’s 6 a week before. When I saw that look on her face and looked at the 7 running down the wall, I simply started 8 . I am sure she thought I was 9 , but then she must have realized that I was thinking, “It’s a good thing your 10 isn’t here!” She started laughing with me, and we laughed until we 11 . These were tears of joy and 12 and were the first of many tears that we cried together. That was the day we knew that we were going to be okay.
That was the day I really became a mom. I 13 that being a mom isn’t only going to ballet, and attending every school concert. It isn’t keeping a(n) 14 house and preparing perfect meals. It certainly isn’t 15 that things are always normal when they are not. For me, being a mom started when I could laugh over spilt milk.
1. A. protected
2. A. new
3. A. went over
4. A. firmly
5. A. pleasure
6. A. absence
7. A. jam
8. A. laughing
9. A. sad
10. A. friend
11. A. cried
12. A. bravery
13. A. questioned
14. A. splendid
15. A. describing
B. removed
B. old
B. picked up
B. carelessly
B. fear
B. patience
B. juice
B. shouting
B. excited
B. father
B. fainted
B. horror
B. discovered
B. messy
B. pretending
C. separated
C. beautiful
C. took on
C. slowly
C. pain
C. presence
C. milk
C. scolding
C. sick
C. grandma
C. slept
C. surprise
C. wondered
C. spotless
C. creating
D. prevented
D. cold
D. knocked over
D. freshly
D. smile
D. arrival
D. water
D. praying
D. crazy
D. brother
D. stopped
D. peace
D. remembered
D. lifeless
D. meaning
第二节：语法填空（共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16～25的相应位置上。
Once there were two mice, a city mouse and a country mouse. They were distant relatives. One day the city mouse, ____16______ lived in a big house wrote a letter to the country mouse inviting him for a visit.
Delighted, the country mouse accepted the _____17______(invite) and came to the city mouse’s house. He was greeted by the city mouse cheerfully. The country mouse was surprised ______18______ big the house was. The city mouse was pleased ______19______ led the country mouse to the kitchen. When ____20_____ climbed up the table, there were a large piece of bread, fruit and cheese _____21____ it. But just as they began to eat, they heard _____22______ great noise. The city mouse cried, “ Run! Run! The cat ______23_____ (come)!” They ran away quickly and hid.
_____24______ (breath) heavily after hiding in the mouse-hole, the country mouse said to the city mouse, “ I should go back to house in the country. Even if I eat nothing but beans, I can live _____25____ (peace). Why don’t you come with me to the country? It is nicer to be poor and happy, than to be rich and afraid.”
II 阅读（共两节，满分50分）
第一节 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A, B, C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
I had always wanted to read Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser because I thought it would be interesting to find out what makes fast food taste so great. But what I read startled me. Fast-food employees admitted they saw food that had dropped on the floor being served. They also admitted that some food even had spit on it.
Schlosser also describes the environment of a slaughterhouse(屠宰场)he visited in Nebraska. He describes a worker’s job that is to shoot cows for eight hours. The slaughterhouse has blood that is ankle deep and the dead cows are hung in the air before being carved（切开）.
Schlosser also explains how fast food attracts young children by giving away toys with meals and airing ads on Saturday mornings. I realize that he is totally right because I remember that I used to buy Happy Meals based on what toys they were offering. When McDonald’s restaurants were giving out Beanie Babies as toys, my mom took me there every day so I could collect them all. When I was 7, I liked going to another McDonald’s that had a really cool train display. I realize that the train was another factor that drew me back to McDonald’s.
Even though fast food chains will probably never disappear, I believe anyone who reads the book will think twice before eating fast food. Now I don’t eat fast food as often. I have been eating more seafood to lose weight. But once or twice a month when I’m out with my friends, we’ll eat at a fast food restaurant. The hamburger and fries still taste good. But when I’m down to the last bite, I remember what goes into making it and I regret eating it.
26. What does the underlined word “startled” in Paragraph 1 mean?
A. Protected B. Surprised C. Excited D. Attracted
27. Which of the following words could best describe the environment of the slaughterhouse?
A. Horrible B. Quiet C. Normal D. Relaxing
28. According to Paragraph 3, for some time in the past , the writer went to McDonald’s every day because .
A. her mother wanted her to eat there
B. she really liked the food served there.
C. she wanted to collect some toys.
D. she was sad and wanted to be cheered up by eating there.
29. The writer thinks that __________ .
A. fast food chains will disappear sooner or later.
B. people should stop eating fast food from now on.
C. people who like eating fast food don’t have to know much about it.
D. reading Fast Food Nation helps people make wiser decisions on food.
30. This passage is a (an) __________.
A. school paper B. movie review C. book review D. advertisement
B
September is an exciting month in every college freshman’s life. For many, it’s the first time that they’ve left home to live in a new environment. But after the hustle and bustle of a few weeks, excitement gives way to a less enjoyable emotion— homesickness.
Homesickness manifests itself in many ways. You may miss mum’s cooking, your pets, or even your old bed. All this becomes a fond memory of the past. Homesickness can be a bitter feeling for many students, especially when faced with the challenges of settling into an unfamiliar environment.
But remember, you’re not alone. According to a recent BBC article, 70 percent of British college students experience homesickness. In this increasingly globalized world in which people migrate to faraway places for a relationship, education or work, homesickness is a feeling shared by many adults.
Homesickness can have similar symptoms to depression and in extreme cases it can develop into a panic attack. As for the term, homesickness or nostalgia wasn’t invented until the 17th century. It was considered a disorder by a Swiss physician, who attributed soldiers’ mental and physical discomfort to their longing to return home, “nostos” from Greek, and the accompanying pain, “algos”.
Studies in recent years, however, have shown that nostalgia may have some benefits to our mental health. After a decade of surveys and researches, Constantine Sedikides, a US social psychologist, found that nostalgia is what makes us human. He explains that nostalgia can resist loneliness, boredom and anxiety. It makes people more generous toward strangers and more tolerant of outsiders. Sediktdes admits that nostalgia has its painful side, but the net effect is to make life seem more meaningful. When people speak wistfully of the past, they typically become more optimistic and inspired about the future. The trick is not to become obsessive about the past, but always to live life forward. Therefore, it’s necessary for college students to learn some ways to overcome the uncomfortable feeling.
31. From the first two paragraphs, we can infer that __________.
A. homesickness means a fond memory of the past
B. only a few students will experience homesickness
C. homesickness is an enjoyable emotion among freshmen
D. college freshmen usually suffer from homesickness after weeks
32. According to the passage, we can know that _________.
A. homesickness may cause mental diseases
B. homesickness is a feeling only shared by adults
C. homesickness won’t do any good to our health
D. homesickness is also called nostalgia in Switzerland
33. What is most likely to be discussed in the paragraph that follows?
A. some benefits about homesickness
B. other problems in college freshmen’s life
C. how to make campus life more meaningful
D. some tips on how to cope with homesickness
34. The attitude of Sedikides towards homesickness is _________.
A. negative B. supportive C. skeptical D. critical
35. What is the best title for the passage?
A. Let’s embrace homesickness B. How to fit into the college life
C. A harmful emotion—homesickness D.The disadvantages of homesickness
C
Parents should ban electronic media during mealtimes and after bedtime as part of a comprehensive “family media use plan”, according to new recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics. “Excessive media use is associated with obesity, poor school performance, aggression and lack of sleep”, said Marjorie Hogan, co-author of the new policy.
Families should have a no-device rule during meals and after bedtime, the guidelines say. Parents should also set family rules covering the use of the Internet, cellphones, including, perhaps, which sites can be visited, and who can be called. The policy also restated the existing recommendations: Kids should limit the amount of screen time for entertainment to less than two hours per day; children younger than 2 shouldn't have any TV or Internet exposure. Also, televisions and Internet-accessible devices should be kept out of kids' bedrooms.
Doctors say parents need to obey the family rules, too, to model healthy behavior. That, some say, may be the toughest part. “If you go to any restaurant, Family 3.0 is Mom and Dad on their devices and the kids on theirs”, says Donald, a pediatrician and an AAP spokesman. “Who is talking to each other?”
Children aged from 8 to 18 spent an average of 7 hours and 38 minutes a day consuming media for fun, including TV, music, video games and other content in 2009, according to a 2010 report from the Kaiser Family Foundation. The report was based on a survey of 2002 third through twelfth graders, 702 of whom completed a seven-day media use diary. That was up about an hour and 17 minutes a day from five years earlier. About two-thirds of 8 to 18-year-olds said they had no rules on the amount of time they spent watching TV, playing video games or using the computer, the Kaiser report found.
Use of mobile devices by young kids has soared. A new report from Common Sense Media, a child-advocacy group based in San Francisco, found that 17% of children 8 and younger use mobile devices daily, up from 8% in 2011.
36.Which statement is?True?according to the 1st paragraph?
A. Parents are advised to ban electronic media after mealtimes.
B. “Family media use plan” is being carried out throughout America.
C. Electronic media are evil in the eyes of parents and educators.
D. Overuse of electronic media has caused many severe problems.
37.Which is?Not included?in the new policy?
A. Children’s screen time for entertainment should be limited.
B. Children can only play video games in their bedrooms.
C. Children can’t call whoever they want to call without parents’ permission.
D. Children younger than 2 should neither watch TV nor surf the Internet.
38.Why should parents themselves obey the family rules?
A. It’s beneficial to their health.
B. It’s essential to parenting their kids
C. It’s beneficial to their work.
D. It’s essential to developing good relationship with their kids.
39.What can be inferred according to the report from the Kaiser Family Foundation?
A. The majority of the surveyed kids can use electronic devices as they like in their homes.
B. The report was based on the statistics in 2002.
C. 702 of the surveyed kids completed a seven-day media use diary.
D. Kids are spending less and less time using media for fun.
40.What can be the best title of the passage?
A. Consuming media for fun is a nature of kids
B. No use, no worry
C. Measures should be taken to stop children’s overuse of electronic media
D. Electronic devices threaten the relationship of many families
D
A board game is a game played on a pre-marked surface or “board” according to a set of rules. Board games have been played in most cultures and societies throughout history. Do you think of yourself as a bit of an expert at board games?like?chess?or?Go?
Maybe you’re not quite as good as you think. New research from the University of Manchester and Oxford suggests complex games like these are impossible to learn fully. They may even be too complex for the human mind to understand.
Researchers studied two-player games, to try and understand the strategies which people use to make decisions during the game. Some games with two players are simple, with only a small number of possible moves. Players can quickly work out the best strategy but that means the game soon becomes boring.
It gets more interesting when there are many possible moves. That’s why people are so fascinated by complex board games like chess or Go, or some?card games. But what the researchers found was that with difficult games, players find it hard to work out the best strategy and their?actions?become?less reasonable.
This research is part of the field called?game theory: the study of human strategic decision-making. Much thinking on how people play complex games is based on something called “the balance point”, which is when players have a perfect knowledge of what they are going to do and of what their?rivals are going to do.
When you add more than two players then of course the game becomes even harder to understand. Trading on the stock market is an example of a complex multi-player game.
41. Which of the following games belongs to board games?
A. football B. badminton C. swimming D. Mahjong
42. It can be inferred in the passage that _______.
A. the simpler the board game is, the better it is
B. people dislike board games for the complex moves
C. players are easy to lose patience when in difficult games
D. it’s possible for people to understand complex games thoroughly
43. If players want to get to the balance point, they should ______.
A. ask other players to work out the best strategy
B. have a good knowledge of the games they are playing
C. figure out the next actions of themselves and their opponents
D. come to a quick decision about what to do next by themselves
44. In which section can we read this passage in a newspaper?
A. Culture B. Discovery C. Career D. Campus
45. The author intends to tell us ___________.
A. a new research about board games B.the importance of playing board games
C. how the players win board games D. how to learn board games fully
第二节：信息匹配（共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分）
阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按要求匹配信息，在答题卡上将对应题号的相应选项字母涂黑。
首先请阅读下列中学生课外读物的封面及基本信息；
This book has information about practically anything and everything! If you have questions, it has a lot of answers. Packed with hundreds of facts, and all of the information you need to keep boredom away and handle schoolwork with ease.
It’s Khachaturian’s first day at Hills Village Middle School, and it’s shaping up to be the worst year ever. He tries to break every rule in his school’s Code of Conduct. Chewing gum in class – 5,000 points! Running in the hallway – 10,000 points! Pulling the fire alarm – 50,000 points!
This book by author James Patterson issued in 2013 for kids tells us that Georgia Khachaturian plans to be good at Hills Village Middle School in all the places her troublemaking brother failed. She’s even promised that she’ll quickly become one of the most
popular girls in school.
Homework, heartache – middle school has no shortage of danger. The author of Worst – Case Scenario offers a survival guide for those who are facing or just about to face this big time in school and life. The handbook is packed with funny but useful tips for the trickiest situations in school.
Jamie wants to be the world’s greatest standup comedian – even if he doesn’t have a lot to laugh about these days. He’s living with his aunt and her evil son Steve. But he doesn’t let his situation get him down. He practices the craft of stand – up every day.
In this book, Khachaturian is accepted to art school and imagines a math – and – history – free fun zone. Wrong! It’s more competitive, and to score high in class, he needs to turn his boring life into the inspiration. But then he has to decide if he’s ready to turn his world upside down.
以下是购书者对这些书籍的简要评论。请将简要评论与封面及基本信息匹配起来。
46．This is a fantastic read full of funny stories of Khachaturian’s first day at school, I could actually put some faces on the characters in this book. My daughter is reading it now and laughing and talking about it to her friends for his silly things against regulation.
47．This book is popular with children, because it is full of stories to tell our kids how to be strong and realize his dream though in the worst situation. Jamie shares the secret of his troubled past instead of hiding behind his comedy act, which should be an example for youngster.
48．I like this read because it can teach kids how to face any unexpected dangers or happenings like taking charge of a too – busy homework schedule, dealing with a cold shoulder from a friend, avoiding cell phone disasters, and more. These tips are very useful.
49．Issued in 2013 for kids, this helpful book tells us readers a lot of information with facts of the heroine who is eager to be better than her brother, a troublemaker, in all fields at school. She also would like to be a well – received student in school as soon as possible.
50．I am interested in this wonderful book because it shows our kids how to deal with competitive life in art school and how to get a very good mark in school when they enter a brand new grade. Also it tells them how to turn their dull school life into a lively one.
Ⅲ写作(共两节，满分40分)
第一节基础写作(共1小题；满分15分)
假如你是在中国旅游的英国学生。请根据下面的提示，介绍一下你的家乡爱丁堡，并且欢迎你的中国朋友去爱丁堡旅游。
[写作内容]
爱丁堡是苏格兰首府，位于苏格兰中部。面积260平方公里。
1329年建市，是英国著名的文化古城。
造纸和印刷出版业历史悠久，造船、玻璃和食品等工业发达。
有1583年建立的爱丁堡大学，还有古城堡、大教堂、艺术博物馆等名胜古迹。
5月至9月是游览爱丁堡的最佳季节。
[写作要求] 只能用5个句子表达全部内容，开头与结尾已经给出，不计入总句数。
[评分标准] 句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。
参考词汇：苏格兰 Scotland，造船 shipbuilding，古城堡 ancient castles
Hi, I am glad to introduce my hometown Edinburgh to you. ______________________
______________________________________________________________________ Welcome to Edinburgh.
第二节 读写任务 （共1小题，满分25分）
阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
More than five years I was working at a little clinic after I graduated from college. Actually I didn’t like the job and felt depressed every day. One day while working at the cash register, an elderly couple came in with a little girl in a wheelchair.
As I looked closer at this girl, I realized that she was disabled. I then realized she had no arms or legs, just a head, neck and torso. She was in red. That is a warm color.
As I took the money from her grandparent, I looked down at the girl, who was giving me the cutest, largest smile I have ever seen. All of a sudden her handicap was gone and all I saw was this beautiful girl, and her smile, just like the warm sun in the winter melted me and almost instantly gave me a completely new sense of what life is all about.
It was her smile that took me from a poor, unhappy college student and brought me into her world; a world of smiles, love and warmth.
Now I’m a successful business person and whenever I get down and think about the troubles of the world, I think about that little girl and the remarkable lesson about life that she taught me.
【写作内容】
1．以约30个词概括这篇短文的内容要点。
2. 然后以约120词就“生活态度”这一话题发表你的看法，内容包括：
(1) 上述故事给你的感受与启发；
(2) 举例说明你生活中遇到过让你改变生活态度的人或事；
(3) 你认为生活态度对我们的生活有何重要意义。
【写作要求】
1．可以使用实例来支持你的论点，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文中的句子；
2．作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。
【评分标准】
概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，语篇连贯。