常州市第一中学高三英语模拟卷
第一卷（三部分 共115分）
第一部分：听力（30分）
第二部分：英语知识运用（共两节，満分45分）
第一节：单项填空（共15小题，每小题1分，満分15分）
1.——How about the price of these refrigerators?
——They are equal in price to, if not cheaper than, at other stores.
A. others B. it C. that D. the others
2. Though they are people of different sorts, they always buy dresses of style.
A. 不填 B. the; a C. 不填; a D. the; the
3. or you will fail; would be the situation you face.
A. Try hard; so B. Don’t lose heart; which C. Go all out; such D. Keep up your courage; as
4. We are more or less overjoyed at the news of China the World Trade Organization in October this year.
A. to have entered B. To enter C. will enter D. entering
5. Is this computer company you visited the office where my brother worked?
A. what B . the one C. the one where D. that
6. ——My foot hurts terribly, doctor.
——Well, I wonder it has been like this?
A. since when B. how C. where D. when
7. and we will complete the task set to us.
A. Another B. An hour later C. After an hour D. In an hour
8. In front of our house stands a tall tree, _____top well above the tops of other trees.
A. which B. what C. its D. whose
9. It was _____ that caused him to serve dinner an hour later than usual.
A . we were too later B. because we were late C. our being late D. us being late
10. We may conclude that ____a planet only approximately like our own, life is almost certain to start.
A. give B. given C. to give D. to be give
11. Today, far from ____ too much, there is only just enough plastics available.
A. being B. there is C. there being D. for there to be
12. Although many people view argument as bad , argument is sometimes useful ____it forces people to expose their own points of view.
A. by which B. to which C. in that D. so that
13. Ah, no wonder this boot won’t ____.I’ve been trying it on the wrong foot.
A. put on B. have on C. go on D. fit on
14. Never have I thought of the way ____he explained to us.
A. in which B. what C. which D. how
15. ____has got round that it will be five days ____he comes back to his native place.
A. That ; when B. News; that C. It ; since D. word; before
第二节，完型填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，満分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36－55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黒。
Sending a child to school in England is a step which many parents do find easy to take. In theory, at least, the problem is that there are __36__choices to make. Let us try to list some of the choices between which parents are __37__to decide. To begin with, they may ask themselves whether they would like their child to go to a __38__school or a co-educational school. They may __39__consider whether he should go to a school which is __40__to a particular church or religious group, __41__whether the school should have no such connections. __42__decision is whether the school should be one of the vast majority financed by the __43__or one of the very small but influential minority of private schools, though this choice is, __44__, only available to the __45__ number of those who can pay. Also connected with the question of __46__is whether the child should go to a __47__school or live at home. Then there is the question of what the child should do school. Should it be a school whose curriculum lays emphasis, for instance, on __48__ skills, such as reading, writing and mathematics, or one which pays __49__ attention to developing the child’s personality, morally, emotionally and socially. Finally, with __50__ with conventional education as great as it is in some circles in England and certainly in the USA, the question might even arise in the parents’ minds as to whether the child should be __51__to go to school at all. __52__in practice, some parents may not think twice about any of these choices and send their child to the only school available in the __53__neighbourhood, any parent who is interested enough can __54__that as many choices as possible be made open to him, and the system is theoretically supposed to __55__them.
36. A. few B. good C. many D. exciting
37. A. forced B. happy C. willing D. refused
38. A. distant B. nice C. different D. single-sex
39. A. only B. undoubtedly C. ever D. also
40. A. close B. connected C. belonged D. important
41. A. but B. and C. or D. well as
42. A. One B. Another C. The other D. No such
43. A. state B. public C. wealthy D. private organization
44. A. therefore B. of course C. however D. as a result
45. A vast B exact C great D small
46. A money B education C choices D religion
47. A public B private C boarding D nice
48. A special B unusual C advanced D necessary
49. A less B no C more D excellent
50. A connection B pleasure C satisfaction D dissatisfaction
51. A allowed B delighted C taken D obliged
52. A Although B Once C Unless D As
53. A close B immediate C distant D peaceful
54. A insist B expect C hope D order
55. A have B desert C provide D show
第三部分，阅读理解（共20题，每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给出的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
When should a child start learning to read and write? This is one of the questions I am most frequently asked. There is no hard and fast rule, for no two are alike, and it would be wrong to set a time when all should start being taught the intricacies(纷繁难懂之处)of reading letters to form words.
If a three-year-old wants to read(or even a two-year-old for that matter), the child has the right to be given every encouragement. The fact that he or she might later be “bored” when joining a class of non-readers at child school is the teacher’ affair. It is up to the teacher to see that such a child is given more advanced reading material.
Similarly, the child who still cannot read by the time he goes to junior school at the age of seven should be given every help by teachers and parents alike .They should make certain that he is not dyslexic(诵读困难的). If he is, a specialist’s help should immediately be sought.
Although parents should be careful not to force youngsters aged two to five to learn to read(if badly done it could put them off reading for life), there is no harm in preparing them for simple recognition of letters by labeling(标明)various items in their room. For instance, tie a nice piece of cardboard to their bed with BED written in neat, big letters. Should the young child ask his parents to teach him to read, and if the parents are capable of doing so, such an attraction should not be ignored(忽视).But the task should never be made to look like a hard job and the child should never be forced to continue, should his interest start to flag(消退).
56. This passage is mainly about_____.
A. what qualities people teaching children reading should have
B. different age groups of children to be taught reading
C. when and how children should be taught reading
D. various problems of children who start leaning to read
57. In the writer’ opinion, children start learning to read____.
A. early and fast B. at different times
C. by a certain rule D. from word games
58. A three-year-old child who wants to read should____.
A. be encouraged B. go to an infant school
C. start from fun stories D. join a class of non-readers
59. The purpose of labeling items in the room is to____.
A. make it more colorful
B. teach children to write neatly
C. help children recognize simple letters
D. force children to develop the habit of reading
60. The writer suggests that ____.
A. children should ask their parents to teach them to read
B. children should not feel bored if given advanced reading material
C. children starting to read should ask specialists for help
D. children should be taught with patience, care and a sense of humor
B
George’s case is not rare. Fifteen years, quite a number of men and women have chosen to drop out of the working world to try a different kind if life. Most of them are in their thirties and forties, often well educated, although all ages and backgrounds can be found among them. A variety of reasons have led them to give up their work and the security that is provided.
Some like George have quit a job that was demanding too much from them. Others couldn’t stand the pressure and the competition. A thirty-five-year-old woman, who had a position in her company, decided to leave when she found herself suffering from allergies that made her life miserable. She had two children and had no savings; but her worries about her future couldn’t spoil her feeling of relief and her new peace of mind. Her health improved. She may never work again; if she does she says that she will take small temporary jobs.
Some people, on the contrary, have given up a career that was boring and meaningless to them. An office employee who has been doing paperwork for many years may start wondering whether those papers are achieving anything. An engineer in a large company, knowing that he could be replaced by any man with the same training, may come to feel unimportant as an individual. Such people leave their work in the hope of finding stronger interests and a sense of personal worth.
61. After leaving her position the thirty-five-year-old woman felt____.
A. relieved and peaceful, though worried about her security
B. bored, without friends and companions
C. that she needed another job
D. the pressure and burdens of life
62. According to the passage, people would probably not drop out of the force if they_____.
A. often worry about their work
B. work without any complaints
C. find it very easy to do their jobs
D. don’t mind being controlled by others
63. The passage mainly wands to tell us ____.
A. many people enjoy different kinds of jobs
B. people don’t like the pressure and competition
C. people hope to find a sense of personal worth
D. the reasons why some people want to give up their jobs
C
Most students are usually introduced to the study of history by way of a fat textbook and become quickly engaged in a vast sea of names, dates, events and statistics. The students’ skills are then tested by examinations that require them to show how much of the data they remember; the more they remember , the hither their grades. From this experience a number of conclusions seem obvious; the study of history is a study of “fact” about the past; the more facts you know, the better you are as a student of history. The professional historian, whether a teacher or a textbook writer, is simply one who brings together a very large number of “fact”.
Some students who have been introduced to history in this way become confused upon discovering that historians often disagree sharply. To be sure, historians present their materials in familiar ways: they tell us what happened and why it happened by presenting a mass of historical data. But students soon discover that two or three or more historians dealing with the same event may come to quite different conclusions about it. Sometimes two historians will use two very different sets of “facts” in describing an event, and this leads them to different conclusions. At other times, however, the same “faces” are given different meanings by different historians, and their conclusions therefore differ.
The common-sense reaction to this state of affairs is to conclude that one historian is right while the other is wrong. But common sense will take students no further than this. Maybe ,historians who are wrong will have their “facts” wrong. This is seldom the case, however. Students find that all historians argue reasonably and persuasively. And the “facts”---the names, date, events, figures---usually turn out to be correct. The only way out for the confused students is to choose one point of view for reasons they cannot fully explain. History, which had seemed to be a cut-and-dried matter of memorizing “facts”, now becomes a matter of personal preference like the choice of one brand-named item over another in a supermarket.
64. The primary purpose of this passage is to______.
A. introduce some methods in the study of history
B. present some misunderstandings of history
C. explain why different historians draw different conclusions
D. prove that historical truth is a matter of personal preference
65. The reasons that different historians, when dealing with the same event, give the “facts” different meanings most probably is that_____.
A. historians who are wrong will have their “facts” wrong
B. different historians look at the same “facts” from different points of view
C. there are no historical facts
D. all of the above
66. Which of the following statements would the author most probably agree to?
A. The older students remember more facts.
B. An advanced course in American history in high school differs from the six-grade course in American history in that it gives more details.
C. Historians tend to tell us historical events by presenting a lot of historical materials.
D. A good way to study is to turn historical truth into personal preference.
67. The author’s attitude towards the study of history discussed in this passage is _____.
A. neutral(中立) B. approving C. disagreeing D. angry
D
Whereas literature in the first half of the eighteenth century in America had been largely religious and moral in tone. By the latter half of the century the revolutionary fervor that was coming to life in the colonies began to be shown in the literature of the time, which in turn serves to further influence the population. Although not all writers of this period supported the revolution, the two best-known and most influential writers, Ben Franklin and Thomas Paine, were strongly supportive of that cause.
Ben Franklin first won popular success through his writings in his brother’s newspaper,the New England Current. In these articles he used a simple style of language and common sense argumentation to defend the point of view of the former and the Leather Apron man. He continued with the same common sense practicality and appeal(呼吁)to the common man with his work on Poor Richard’s Almanac from 1733 until 1758, firmly established in his popular acceptance by the people. Franklin wrote a variety of extremely effective articles about the colonists’ revolutionary cause against England.
Thomas Paine was an Englishman working as a magazine editor in Philadelphia at the time of the Revolution. His pamphlet Common Sense, which appeared in 1776 was a force in encouraging the colonists to declare their independence from England. Then throughout the long and terrible war years he published a series of Crisis papers (from 1776 until 1783) to encourage the colonists to continue with the struggle. The effectiveness of his writing was probably dye to his emotional yet oversimplified description of the cause of the colonists against England as a classic struggle of good and bad.
68. The paragraph before this passage most likely discusses_____.
A. how literature influences the population
B. religious and moral literature
C. literature supporting the cause of the American Revolution
D. what made Thomas Paine’s literature successful
69. Which of the following statements is not supported by the passage?
A. The literature at the time of the Revolution showed common thoughts of general population.
B. Revolutionary literature influenced the public.
C. The revolution would not have taken place without the impetus(激励) of literature.
D. The increasing revolutionary fervor of the second half of the eighteenth century was shown in the literature.
70. It is implied in the passage that _____.
A. some writers in the American colonies supported England during Revolution.
B. Franklin and Paine were the only writers to influence the Revolution.
C. because Thomas Paine was an Englishman, he supported England against the colonies.
D. authors who supported England did not remain in the colonies during the Revolution
71. Thomas Paine’s style of writing could be described as _____.
A. practical B. ineffective C. emotional D. impractical
E
Mr. Kindred College Adds Psychology Courses
Mount Kindred College hopes to draw more students from the community with two early childhood course offerings this fail. Department Chair Jane Fairbanks announced Tuesday that the course titles will be The Myth of the Difficult Child and Three R’s or Two T’s? Real Learning or Tantrums in Tandem? The latter course will be an observational lab held at The Learning Academy the preschool on campus.
New faculty member Dr. Allison Landers will instruct both courses. Landers received her Ph. D in 1995 from Northwestern University where she wrote a dissertation(论文) on the pedagogical effectiveness of preschools. According to Fairbanks, DL Landers concluded that academic results are questionable, but that preschools have extensive side benefits.
The course are part of Mount Kindred’s Project Outreach, which aims to draw more mon-traditional students to the college. The project began in 1993, according to Dr Fairbanks, in order to better serve the five-county area. Mount Kindred is the only college in the region, and the governor appointed (任命) Board of Trustees that ordered that more efforts be made to involve the community in the college programs. Dr. Fairbanks, also disclosed that the college enrollment (入学) has fallen ten percent over the past five years, while the state university in Unionville has seen an increase in enrollment .
The observational course meets one of the psychology bachelor program lab requirements. It may also be of special interest to parents who wish a greater understanding of childhood learning behaviors. “The Myth of the Difficult Child” is scheduled on weekday evening in order to make it easier for working parents to attend. Contact the Psychology Department at 777-4531 for more information, drop by the office in Powell Hall. Other college department will be announcing Project Outreach Courses in the coming weeks. For further information, refer to the fall course catalogue, available at the Crabtree, the campus bookstore, beginning August!
72. Which of the following is correct?
A. Professor will teach both courses.
B. People wanting course catalogues should call the Psychology Department.
C. The new courses begin on August 1.
D. The campus preschool is called Crabtree.
73. According to Jane Fairbanks, what was the direct cause of Project Outreach?
A. The psychology faculty believed that members of the community should develop a greater understanding of their children’s education.
B. Professor Landers’ talents and interests were particularly sited to community involvement.
C. The Board of Trustees directed Mount Kindred College to strengthen its community involvement efforts.
D. The Board of Trustees was appointed by the governor in 1993 and needed to find ways to spend its budget.
74. Which of the following factors is implied as another reason for Project Outreach?
A. enrollment has been going down, and the college wishes to attract more students.
B. The college has looked down upon lower income community members in the past.
C. Many parents who have studied psychology before live in the five-county area.
D. The Board of Trustees wants more academically active course.
75. “The Myth of the Difficult Child” course title implies that Professor Landers___.
A. believes that telling stories about children will help us understand them better
B. wants to make her students understand the need for strong behavior controls
C. questions the effect of the word “difficult” when applied to children
D. thinks poorly behaved children tell stories in order to justify their behavior
第二卷（非选择题 共35分）
第四部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，共10分）
After reading some of the letters printing in his newspaper, I’m 76_______
beginning to believe that the carbon monoxide in the city air during 77_______
the past year has yet affected some people’s ability to think. 78_______
The suggestion for limiting the use of the cars seems reasonable. 79_______
I can’t feel it will produce any real suffering from the part 80 _______
of motorists, who sometime seem to put their right to drive 81_______
above the public’s right to breathe.
Surely everyone can understand it would be bad to have to 82_______
wear gas mask in our city than to ride in buses or trains. 83_______
After all, breathing is necessary and we might both breathe 84_______
more easily if we could reduce the number of pollution in our city. 85_______
第二节 书面表达（满分25分）
某学校附近要兴建一座造纸厂。你是该校高三学生李强。给该市市长写一封信，陈述反对兴建造纸厂的理由。信中要包括以下几点。
⑴ 不仅你本人，大部分同学都反对兴建。
⑵ 尽管该厂可以为本市赚钱，但危害大于好处。
⑶ 污染河水，噪声影响学习。
⑷ 造成空气污染。
⑸ 采取措施阻止建厂。
注意：1。字数100左右。 2。开头已为你写好。
Dear Mayor,
I am Li Qiang, a student of Senior3----
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