1、 2015 届 高 考 考 前 仿 真 训 练 (一 )英语试题试题说明:1. 本试卷分第一卷(选择题)和第二卷(非选择题)两部分。2满分 150 分。考试用时 120 分钟。3. 听力不计入总分。第卷(选择题 共 115 分)第一部分 听力(共两节,满分 20 分)第一节(共 5 小题;每小题 1 分,满分 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. How old is the man?A. 50. B. 48. C.
2、46.2. What do we learn from this conversation?A. They spent much money on vacation this year.B. They will save the money for a house rather than a vacation.C. They will buy a small house instead of a bigger one.3. What is the man?A. A customer. B. A businessman. C. A clerk.4. What does the man mean?
3、A. He doesnt like picnicking at all.B. He is occupied today.C. He went on a picnic yesterday.5. What is the probable relationship between the two speakers?A. Teacher and student. B. Manager and office worker.C. Travel agent and customer.第二节(共 15 小题;每小题 l 分,满分 15 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
4、、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 至 8 题。6. What do you think the man is? Why?A. A policeman, because he works hard. B. A postman, because he often works late.C. A taxi driver, because he often works through the evening rush hours.
5、7. When were they having this dialogue?A. After the man finished his work. B. After they got up.C. Before they went out shopping.8. How is the weather in New York compared with the weather in Florida?A. Colder. B. Warmer. C. Rains more.听第 7 段材料,回答第 9 至 11 题。9. What did the woman do last night?A. She
6、 went to the cinema with Sam.B. She went to Sams for advice on her English study.C. She had a talk in Chinese with Sam.10. How long has Sam taught English in China?A. 20 days. B. 9. months. C. 2 years.11. What does the woman think of the man?A. Tiresome. B. Terrible. C. Inspiring.听第 8 段材料,回答第 12 至 1
7、4 题。12. Whats the topic in the conversation?A. About breathing. B. About rights. C. About smoking.13. Whats the womans attitude toward smoking?A. Agreement. B. Disagreement. C. Neutral.14. Whats the mans opinion about smoking in public places?A. Smoking is bad for health. B. No one has the right to
8、smoke.C. He has the right to smoke whenever he wants.听第 9 段材料,回答第 15 至 17 题。15. When will Steve plan to get back?A. Saturday evening or Sunday evening. B. Saturday morning or Sunday afternoon.C. Saturday evening or Sunday morning.16. Whose party is held on Saturday afternoon?A. Stevens party. B. Pet
9、ers party. C. Angels party.17. When do you consider Mr. Steve will return at last?A. Surely on Saturday morning. B. Its hard to say.C. Of course, on Saturday afternoon.听第 l0 段材料,回答第 18 至 20 题。18. What will become of the law-breaker?A. He will be asked to do some homework. B. He will be ordered to do
10、 some cleaning.C. He will be paid for what he does.19. How many hours can a prisoner in the closed prison spend outside?A. 2 hours. B. 12 hours. C. 8 hours.20. How will prisoners in open prisons spend the night?A. They are free within the prison grounds.B. They can study out of the prison grounds.C.
11、 They are locked up during the night.第二部分 阅读理解(共两节,满分60分)第一节 (共15小题;每小题3分,满分45分)阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C 和 D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 AThe TV program, A Bite of China, featuring delicious Chinese food, has attracted countless viewers, and moved many to tears.A Bite of China is a serious documentary prov
12、iding a unique view of Chinese as well as the relations between people and food and between people and society from the view of food. The touching documentary reminds some people of their mother, and makes some realize that every grain comes from hard and laborious work. Some people see patriotism (
13、爱国精神) in the documentary, and some consider it a great cultural export.How did this documentary achieve a great influence beyond its subject matter in such a short time?“It is not empty propaganda (宣传) about Chinas splendid food culture. Instead, it shows the techniques used in making food and their
14、 production process as well as the lives of ordinary people, thus striking a chord (共鸣) with the audience,” an Internet user said. The success of the documentary should be attributed to sincerity and reality. Nowadays, many works of art that have high investment, high technology, and magnificent sce
15、nes lack nothing but sincerity and reality.A Bite of China shows that a commercial documentary promoting patriotism can be full of touching details, that the emotions of ordinary Chinese people should be exhibited even in publicizing China overseas, and that even a completely commercial program can
16、achieve both artistic and commercial success.“We made this documentary with our respect and love for food,” said director Chen Xiaoqing. Being sincere is the most important thing for artists because they cannot move others unless they themselves are first moved, and cannot convince others unless the
17、y themselves are first convinced. Sincerity is the “secret” for making this documentary so popular, and every cultural creator should learn from its success.21. The underlined words “be attributed to” in paragraph 4 can be replaced by .A. be caused by B. contribute to C. be devoted to D. result in22
18、. What can you mainly find in A Bite of China?A. Relations between people and food. B. Real lives of all Chinese people.C. Patriotic stories of Chinese people. D. Process of preparing food.23. What can we infer from the passage?A. The documentary is so successful that no one can surpass it.B. Differ
19、ent people can get different messages from the documentary.C. The documentary should have shown Chinas splendid food culture.D. Many art works fail to reflect reality and high technology.24. What is the main idea of the last paragraph?A. Directors respect and love for food. B. The secret of the docu
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24、e I would have rested on what I have achieved and played golf with friends. But Gene knew the magic secret: one page a day.He writes a page a day. A page is about 300 words. A paragraph or two. Can you do that? Gene ended up writing 50 published novels, including many bestsellers and award-winners.H
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37、 They are for American citizens.C. They must be applied for online.D. They can be applied for again and again. DScientists usually search rainforests, deep ocean or other wild spots to find new plant and animal species. So when a new species of frog was found in New York, Scientists were surprised.T
38、hree years ago, Rutgers University science student Jeremy Feinberg heard something strange as he listened to southern leopard frog calls. Instead of the normal repeated croaking (呱呱地叫) of most frogs, he heard just one single cluck (咯咯叫). “When I first heard these frogs calling, I knew something was
39、very off,” Feinberg explains.Feinberg walked around New York and New Jersey listening to the sounds and collecting samples. He shared his research with biologist Catherine E. Newman who was studying leopard frogs.Newman analyzed the frogs DNA. She compared the new frogs DNA with the DNA of southern
40、and northern leopard frogs. Even though the frogs looked nearly the same, their DNA was very different.“Its what we call a cryptic species one species hidden within another because we cant tell them apart by looking,” Feinberg says. “But thanks to molecular genetics, people are really picking out sp
41、ecies more and more that would otherwise be ignored.”Feinberg believes the frog also once lived in Manhattan, but its current habitat ranges from the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in New Jersey to northern countries of New York. It may even be living in parts of Connecticut and Pennsylvania.
42、The center of the frogs habitat seems to be Yankee Stadium. But so far, Feinberg hasnt found any frogs living around the famous baseball field.Joanna Burger is Feinbergs advisor at Rutgers University. “It is amazing to discover a new frog in Rutgers backyard. The frog was among us for a century with
43、out being recognized,” Burger says. “We need to do all that we can to make sure we protect it.”32. According to Paragraph 1, scientists were surprised because they never thought they could find .A. a new species of frog B. new species in a city C. frogs in New York D. new plant and animal species33.
44、 What did Jeremy Feinberg do after he heard the frogs calling differently?A. He did a lot of research.B. He collected their DNA.C. He published his finding immediately.D. He went to his teacher for advice.34. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?A. It is normal to find a new spec
45、ies in big cities.B. The new species of frog should be kept in the zoo.C. The new frog species has existed in New York for a long time.D. more new species are supposed to be found in New York.35. Whats the passage mainly about?A. An amazing discovery made by a professor.B. Wild animals existing in t
46、he university.C. Frogs looking the same but of different kinds.D. A new frog species discovered in New York.第二节(共 5 小题;每小题 3 分,满分 15 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。Not everything will come easily to you. There will be a time when you want to do something, either write a book, learn to da
47、nce, or develop a new skill. If its something you already have had a gift for, things might come easily, but its likely that youre going to find the learning process to be much harder than you imagined. 36 . You cant let the frustration keep you from your end goal, and you need to learn how to overc
48、ome it. If you dont you will never leave your personal comfort zone and youll find yourself living a very narrow life.It wont last.If you continue to push yourself, despite the frustration, youre going to find you get through things quite quickly. 37 . The more you ignore it, the sooner the emotion disappears, getting replaced with a sense of accomplishment.38 Its easy to look at someone who started to learn a new skill at the same time you did and think that theyre picking things up so much faster than you, and to take this as a sign that youre not mean