1、2018 年高考英语真题试卷（全国卷含答案）第一节(共 15 小题:每小题 2 分, 满分 30 分)阅读下列短文,从每题所给的 A、B 、C 和 D 四个选项中,选出最佳选项。AWashington, D. C Bicycle ToursCherry Blossom Bike Tour in Washington, D.C.Duration:3 hoursThis small group bike tour is a fantastic way to see the world famous cherry trees with beautiful flowers of Washington，
2、D.C. Your guide will provide a history lesson about the trees and the famous monuments where they blossom. Reserve your spot before availability-and the cherry blossoms-disappear！Washington Capital Monuments Bicycle TourDuration: 3 hours(4 miles)Join a guided bike tour and view some of the most popu
3、lar monuments in Washington, D.C. Explore the monuments and memorials on the National Mall as your guide shares unique facts and history at each stop. Guided tour includes bike, helmet, cookies and bottled water.Capital City Bike Tour in Washington, D. CDuration: 3 hoursMorning or Afternoon, this bi
4、ke tour is the perfect tour for D. C. newcomers and locals looking to experience Washington, D.C. in a healthy way with minimum effort. Knowledgeable guides will entertain you with the most interesting stories about Presidents， Congress, memorials, and parks. Comfortable bikes and a smooth tour rout
5、e(路线)make cycling between the sites fun and relaxing.Washington Capital Sites at Night Bicycle TourDuration:3 hours (7 miles)Join a small group bike tour for an evening of exploration in the heart of Washington, D.C. Get up close to the monuments and memorials as you bike the sites of Capitol Hill a
6、nd the National Mall. Frequent stops are made for photo taking as your guide offers unique facts and history. Tour includes bike, helmet, and bottled water. All riders are equipped with reflective vests and safety lights.21. Which tour do you need to book in advance?A Cherry Blossom Bike Tour in Was
7、hington, D.C.B Washington Capital Monuments Bicycle Tour.C Capital City Bike Tour in Washington, D. CD Washington Capital Sites at Night Bicycle Tour.22. What will you do on the Capital City Bike Tour?A Meet famous people.B Go to a national park.C Visit well-known museums.D Enjoy interesting stories
8、.23. Which of the following does the bicycle tour at night provide？ACity maps.BCameras.CMeals.DSafety lights.BGood Morning Britains Susanna Reid is used to grilling guests on the sofa every morning，but she is cooking up a storm in her latest role - showing families how to prepare delicious and nutri
9、tious meals on a tight budget。In Save Money: Good Food, she visits a different home each week and with the help of chef Matt Tebbutt offers top tips on how to reduce food waste, while preparing recipes for under 5 per family a day. And the Good Morning Britain presenter says shes been able to put a
10、lot of what shes learnt into practice in her own home, preparing meals for sons, Sam, 14, Finn, 13, and Jack, 11.“We love Mexican churros so I buy them on my phone from my local Mexican takeaway restaurant, “she explains. “I pay 5 for a portion （份），but Matt makes them for 26p a portion, because they
11、 are flour, water, sugar and oil. Everybody can buy takeaway food, but sometimes we re not aware how cheaply we can make this food ourselves.”The eight-part series(系列节目), Save money: Good Food, follows in the footsteps of ITVs Save Money：Good Health, which gave viewers advice on how to get value fro
12、m the vast range of health products on the market.With food our biggest weekly household expense, Susanna and Matt spend time with a different family each week. In tonights Easter special they come to the aid of a family in need of some delicious inspiration on a budget. The team transforms the fami
13、lys long weekend of celebration with less expensive but still tasty recipes.24.What do we know about Susanna Reid？A She enjoys embarrassing her guests.B She has started a new programme.C She dislikes working early in the morning.D She has had a tight budget for her family.25. How does Matt Tebbutt h
14、elp SusannaA He buys cooking materials for her.B He prepares food for her kids.C He assists her in cooking matters.D He invites guest families for her.26.What does the author intend to do in paragraph 4？A Summarize the previous paragraphs.B Provide some advice for the readers.C Add some background i
15、nformation.D Introduce a new topic for discussion.27. What can be a suitable title for the text?A Keeping Fit by Eating SmartB Balancing Our Daily DietC Making Yourself a Perfect ChefD Cooking Well for LessCLanguages have been coming and going for thousands of years, but in recent times there has be
16、en less coming and a lot more going. When the world was still populated by hunter-gatherers，small，tightly knit(联系)groups developed their own patterns of speech independent of each other. Some language experts believe that 10,000 years ago, when the world had just five to ten million people, they spo
17、ke perhaps 12, 000 languages between them.Soon afterwards, many of those people started settling down to become farmers, and their languages too became more settled and fewer in number. In recent centuries, trade, industrialisation, the development of the nation-state and the spread of universal com
18、pulsory education, especially globalisation and better communications in the past few decades, all have caused many languages to disappear, and dominant languages such as English，Spanish and Chinese are increasingly taking over.At present, the world has about 6, 800 languages. The distribution of th
19、ese languages is hugely uneven. The general rule is that mild zones have relatively few languages, often spoken by many people, while hot wet zones have lots, often spoken by small numbers. Europe has only around 200 languages; the Americas about 1, 000; Africa 2, 400; and Asia and the Pacific perha
20、ps 3,200, of which Papua New Guinea alone accounts for well over 800.The median number(中位数) of speakers is mere 6,000, which that half the worlds languages are spoken by fewer people than that.Already well over 400 of the total of 6, 800 languages are close to extinction (消亡), with only a few elderl
21、y speakers left. Pick, at random, Busuu in Cameroon （eight remaining speakers), Chiapaneco in Mexico (150), Lipan Apache in the United States (two or three) or Wadjigu in Australia (one, with a question-mark): none of these seems to have much chance of survival.28. What can we infer about languages
22、in hunter-gatherer times?A They developed very fastB They were large in numberC They had similar patternsD They were closely connected29. Which of the following best explains “dominant“ underlined in paragraph 2？A ComplexB. AdvancedC Powerful.D Modern30. How many languages are spoken by less than 6,
23、000 people at present？A About 6,800B About 3,400C About 2,400D About 1,20031. What is the main idea of the text？A New languages will be created.B Peoples lifestyles are reflected in languages.C Human development results in fewer languages.D Geography determines language evolution.DWe may think were
24、a culture that gets rid of our worn technology at the first sight of something shiny and new, but a new study shows that we keep using our old devices (装置 )well after they go out of style. Thats bad news for the environment- and our wallets - as these outdated devices consume much more energy than t
25、he newer ones that do the same things.To figure out how much power these devices are using, Callie Babbitt and her colleagues at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York tracked the environmental costs for each product throughout its life - from when its minerals are mined to when we stop u
26、sing the device. This method provided a readout for how home energy use has evolved since the early 1990s.Devices were grouped by generation. Desktop computers， basic mobile phones, and box-set TVs defined 1992. Digital cameras arrived on the scene in 1997.And WP3 players, smart phones, and LCD TVs
27、entered homes in 2002，before tablets and e-readers showed up in 2007.As we accumulated more devices, however, we didnt throw out our old ones. “The living-room television is replaced and gets planted in the kids room, and suddenly one day ， you have a TV in every room of the house,” said one researc
28、her. The average number of electronic devices rose from four per household in 1992 to 13 in 2007. Were not just keeping these old devices - We continue to use them. According to the analysis of Babbitts team, old desktop monitors and box TVs with cathode ray tubes are the worst devices with their en
29、ergy consumption and contribution to greenhouse gas emissions (排放) more than doubling during the 1992 to 2007 window.So what s the solution(解决方案)? The team s data only went up to2007， but the researchers also explored what would happen if consumers replaced old products with new electronics that ser
30、ve more than one function, such as a tablet for word processing and TV viewing. They found that more on-demand entertainment viewing on tablets instead of TVs and desktop computers could cut energy consumption by 44%.32. What does the author think of new devices?A They are environment-friendly.B The
31、y are no better than the old.C They cost more to use at home.D They go out of style quickly.33. Why did Babbitts team conduct the research?A To reduce the cost of minerals.B To test the life cycle of a product.C To update consumers on new technology.D To find out electricity consumption of the devic
32、es.34. Which of the following uses the least energy?A The box-set TV.B The tablet.C The LCD TV.D The desktop computer.35. What does the text suggest people do about old electronic devices?A Stop using themB Take them apartC Upgrade them.D Recycle them.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
33、空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。Color is fundamental in home design-something youll always have in every room. A grasp of how to manage color in your spaces in one of the first steps to creating rooms youll love to live in. Do you want a room thats full of life? Professional ? Or are you just looking for a pla
34、ce to relax after a long day? 36 _ , color is the key to making a room feel the way you want it to feelOver the years, there have been a number of different techniques to help designers approach this important point. 37 ，they can get a little complex. But good news is that thereer really only three
35、kinds of decisions you need to make about color in your home: the small ones, the medium ones, and the large ones._38_ ，Theyre the little spots of color like throw pillows, mirrors and baskets that most of us use to add visual interest to our rooms. Less tiring than painting your walls and less expe
36、nsive than buying a colorful sofa, small color choices bring with them the significant benefit of being easily changeable.Medium color choices are generally furniture pieces such as sofas, dinner tables or bookshelves. 39 . They require a bigger commitment than smaller ones, and they have a more pow
37、erful effect on the feeling of a space.The large color decisions in your rooms concern the walls, ceilings, and floors. Whether youre looking at wallpaper or paint, the time, effort and relative expense put into it are significant. 40_ .A. While all of them are usefulB. Whatever youre looking forC.
38、If youre experimenting with a colorD. Small color choices are the ones were most familiar withE. its not really a good idea to use too many small color piecesF. So it pays to be sure, because you want to get it right the first timeG. Color choices in this range are a step up from the small ones in t
39、wo major ways第一节(共 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的 A、B 、C 和 D 四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。During my second year at the city college,I was told that the education department was offering a “free” course, called Thinking Chess, for three credits. I 41 the idea of taking the class because, after all,
40、 who doesnt want to 42 a few dollars? More than that, Id always wanted to learn chess. And, even if I werent 43 enough about free credits, news about our 44 was appealing enough to me. He was an international grandmaster, which 45 I would be learning from one of the games 46 I could hardly wait to 4
41、7 him.Maurice Ashley was kind and smart, a former graduate returning to teach, and this 48 was no game for him ; he meant business. In his introduction, he made it 49 that our credits would be hard-earned. In order to 50 the class among other criteria, we had to write a paper on how we plan to 51 wh
42、at we would learn in class to our future professions and 52 .to our lives. I managed to get an A in that 53 and leaned life lessons that have served me well beyond the 54 .Ten years after my chess class with Ashley, I m still putting to use what he 55 me：“the absolute most important 56 that you lear
43、n when you play chess is how to make good 57 . On every single move you have to 58 a situation, process what your opponent (对手) is doing and59 the best move from among all your options.” These words still ring true today in my 60 as a journalist.41. A. put forward B. jumped at C. tried out D. turned
44、 down42. A. waste B. earn C. save D. pay43. A. excited B. worried C. moved D. tired44. A. title B. competitor C. textbook D. instructor45. A. urged B. demanded C. held D. meant46. A. fastest B. easiest C. best D. rarest47.A. interview B. meet C. challenge D. beat48. A. chance B. qualification C. honor D. job50. A. attend B. pass C. skip D. observe51. A. add B. expose C. apply D. compare52. A. eventually B. naturally C. directly D. normally
