1、普通高等学校招生全国统一考试模拟试题英语(二) 本试卷满分150分，考试时间120分钟。注意事项： 1答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题纸上。 2回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题纸上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题纸上，写在本试卷上无效。 3考试结束后，将本试卷和答题纸一并交回。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。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
2、读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。 1What is the man probably?AA salesman BA driver CA postman2Whats the womans room number probably?A503 B403 C4023What will the man do first?APlay baseball BWatch TV CDo homework4What is the man satisfied with?AThe quietness BThe housing condition CThe neighbors5What are the speakers g
3、oing to do?AMake a call BChat with friends CSee a film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。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。6What does the woman like most about the flat?AIts size BIts transportation CIts surroundings7Ho
4、w does the woman usually go to work now?AOn foot BBy bus CBy subway听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8How many lessons does the class have in total?A10 B20 C409Where are the speakers probably talking with each other?AIn an office BOver the phone CAt home听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10What does the man want the woman to do?AHand i
5、n her report nowBGo on a business trip with himCTell him about Henry11How does Henry most probably feel now?ASad BRelaxed CHappy12What will the woman do next?AWork on her reportBSpeak in front of a large audienceCPrepare for a speech in London听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13When will the party end?AAt 9：30 pm BA
6、t 10：00 pm CAt 10：30 pm14Why will the man stay at home?ATo throw a party BTo write a paper CTo read a newspaper15What does the man mean in the end?AHell give the woman a liftBThe woman cant borrow his car CThe woman got her license really late16Whats the most probable relationship between the speake
7、rs?AClassmates BTeacher and student CMother and son听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17How much weight did the woman manage to lose?A20 pounds B30 pounds C40 pounds18Why did the woman tell others about her plan?ATo ask for tips BTo show it off CTo stay inspired19How did the woman receive the message?AThrough her ph
8、one BThrough her children CThrough her friends20What is the woman mainly talking about?AHow to live a healthy life BHow to eat healthily CHow to lose weight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) 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。A Lagoon Bar，Iceland Blue Lagoon in Iceland is truly the place wher
9、e you can get rid of all troublesHere the warmth of hot springs gets you close to natureA wonderful bar is opened among the hot springsWhile youre sitting in the hot water，waitresses bring you a range of cocktail. What to order：cocktail“Blue Lagoon”and white wine Baobab Tree Bar &Wine Cellar，South A
10、fricaIn the hollow(洞)of a huge 6，000-year-o1d baobab tree you can not only drink a cocktail，but also rest from the heat of Limpopo ProvinceOnce this safe heaven was known only to the Bushmen，but now this ancient tree is the tourist destination for all kinds of touristsWhat to order：anything in a gla
11、ss The Birdsville Hotel and Pub，Australia At the edge of the Simpson Desert，among the sand dunes(沙丘)，which are the favoritespot for the mice，there is a hotel and a pubThe walls of this bar are decorated with old hatsand posters of beer，the oldest of which dates from 1884Most visitors of this buildin
12、g are the amateurs of racing. They come to this village for the September competition. However，the pub is not empty also on other months：the airstrip(飞机跑道)is located nearby，so those who get off the plane are going to have a glass or two of beer first What to order：a pint of beer Floyds Pelican Bar，J
13、amaica It appears that these huge palm leaves and trunks fell into the ocean long time agoThey floated on the waves and then piled up year by year，sticking out of the oceanThats probably how the Pelican Bar，located about a mile from the southwest coast of Jamaica，is built onSome of its visitors have
14、 no room to be fitted inside the bar，and they just drink standing inWaist-deep water What to order：cocktail“Pelican Perfection”21Which bar will you choose if you want to bathe in the hot spring while drinking a cocktail?ALagoon Bar BBaobab Tree Bar &Wine CellarCThe Birdsville Hotel and PubDFloyds Pe
15、lican Bar22What can a visitor order in Lagoon Bar?ARed wine BAnything CBeerDWhite wine23What can we infer about the Birdsville Hotel and Pub?AIt was opened in 1884BIt is the favorite spot for the miceCIt is busy in September every yearDIt is located in the center of the Simpson Desert24What is Floyd
16、s Pelican Bar built on?AOld hats BSand dunesCAn ancient baobab treeDPalm leaves and trunksB Comedian Shelley Berman，who won gold records and appeared on top television shows in the 1950s and 1960s，died at the age of 92Berman was a pioneer of a new brand of comedy that could arouse laughter from such
17、 matters as air travel discomforts and small children answering the telephone Comedy was not a childhood ambition for him“I had dreams of being an actor，”he said in a 1960 interview“For 10 years I tried，picking up small jobs in summer stock and TVI had a hard time of it”At last，he put together a 20-
18、minute routine and performed at the Chicago nightclub，Mister KellysBermans success in Chicago led to bookings in Las Vegas Berman made his appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1959That year he issued his first album Inside Shelly BermanIt won a gold record and received the first-ever Grammy Award
19、for the spoken wordAlong with his busy schedule in nightclubs，he achieved his first ambition to be an actorHe appeared in a Broadway play The Boys Against the Girls in 1959 and a musical A Family Affair in 1962His film debut(首秀)came in 1964 with the film The Best Man Bermans comedy career stopped in
20、 1963He was performing his act before an audience for a documentarystyle NBC show，when a telephone ringing interrupted him；it was the second night it happenedHe stormed backstage and shouted at everyone in sightHis outburst was included in the telecastThe bookings fell off，and Berman returned to act
21、ing，but with little luckHe and his wife Sarah were forced to file for bankruptcy(破产)，and he began a longstruggle to pay off his taxes and debts After that he worked as a lecturer and a teacherFor more than 20 years he taught comedy at the University of Southern CaliforniaHe retired from performing i
22、n 201425What made Shelley Berman successful in Chicago?AHis small jobs BHis spoken wordCHis lectureDHis nightclub performance26What made Berman win the Grammy Award?AInside Shelley Berman BThe Boys Against the GirlsCA Family AffairDThe Best Man27How did Berman feel after he received a phone call whi
23、le acting?ARelaxed BSurprised CDelightedDAnnoyed28What does the author think of Berman?AHe had a gift for making people laughBHe had a successful beginning in his acting careerCHe was not only an actor and a teacher but a directorDHe dreamed of becoming a comedian in his childhoodCMerriamWebster get
24、s spicy and political with new dictionary words“Altright”is defined as“a right-wing，primarily online political movement or groups based in the US，whose members reject mainstream conservative politics and support extremist beliefs and policies typically centered on ideas of white nationalism”We also
25、have“dog whistle”，which，in a political context，gets the additional meaning：“an expression or statement that has a secondary meaning intended to be understood only by a particular group of people”Moving on to technology，MerriamWebster finally takes on two terms that have occupied headlines in the pas
26、t few yearsFirst，the“Internet of Things”or“IoT”is defined as“the networking capability that allows information to be sent to and received from objects and devices using the Internet”Then，the dictionary offers a definition of“ransomware”as“malware that requires the victim to pay a ransom(赎金)to access
27、 special files”There are also new business and sport terms that have been in use for a while，such as“onboarding”and“bunny”Now“Hive Mind”，which started as a biological term to describe places of bees and ants，has developed to define“the collective thoughts，ideas，and opinions of a group of people(such
28、 as Internet users)regarded as functioning together as a single mind”Lets get to a spicy conclusion with“sriracha”，which is defined as“a pungent sauce(辣酱)that is made from hot peppers mixed with usually garlic，sugar，salt and vinegar and that is typically used as a condiment(调料)”“Our job as lexicogra
29、phers(词典编纂者)is to follow the development of language，defining the words people are likely to meetThese new words have been added to the dictionary because they have established themselves in the English language，and are part of the current active vocabulary of America”29In which section of a newspap
30、er can you probably find the word“IoT”?ASports BEntertainment CTechnologyDPolitics 30Which word has appeared in headlines frequently in the past years?ADog whistle BRansomware CBunnyDSriracha31Why are these new words added to MerriamWebster?AThey have special meaningsBThey have attracted 1exicograph
31、ersattentionCThey have often been used by political leadersDThey have become part of the American languageD“At almost any given age，most of us are getting better at some things and worse at others，”Joshua Hartshorne，a science researcher and the lead author of a study looking at how intelligence chan
32、ges as we age，told Business InsiderThe team behind that study quizzed thousands of people aged 1090 on their ability to do things like：remembering lists of words，recognizing faces，learning names or doing mathTheir results suggest that no matter what your age istheres almost always a new peakScientis
33、ts use a test called Digit Symbol Substitution to assess everything from dementia(痴呆)to brain damageIt requires people to use a number of cognitive(认知的)skills at onceincluding processing speed，sustained(持续的)attention and visual skillsThe tool，which typically involves pairing numbers with symbols，is
34、also part of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale，one of the most widely used measures of intelligenceHartshorne employed the test in his study of how intelligence changes over time and found that participants performance generally peaked in their ate teensAnd 2011 study found that humans are the b
35、est at learning new names in our early 20sThe human brain has a remarkable ability to recognize and identify faces，and scientists are just beginning to learn whyOn averagewe know that our ability to learn and remember new faces appears to peak shortly after our 30th birthdayHave trouble focusing? A
36、2015 study suggests that our ability to sustain attention improves with age，reaching its peak around age 43“While younger adults may perform best in the speed and flexibility of information processing，adults approaching their mid-years may have the greatest ability to remain focused ，” Joe DeGutis，o
37、ne of the studys lead authors，said in a statement32What does the underlined word“peak”in Paragraph 2 probably mean?AThe highest point BChangeCThe strongest powerDPossibility33What are people in their early 20s the best at?AProcessing speed BStaying focusedCIdentifying new facesDRemembering new names
38、34Which group of people may have the greatest ability to remain focused?ATeenagers BYounger adultsCMiddle-aged peopleDOld people35Whats the best title of the text?AHow to Become CleverBAn Important ResearchCAny Age Finds Its StrengthDDo the Right Thing at the Right Age第二节 (共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分) 根据短文内容，从
39、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。 A UK supermarket has become the first in the world to let shoppers pay for groceries using just the veins(静脉)in their fingertips 36 The firm behind the technology，Sthaler，has said it is in“serious talks”with other major UK supermarkets to adopt hi-tech finger vein s
40、canners at pay points across thousands of stores It works by using infrared(红外线)to scan peoples finger veins and then links this unique biometric(生物识别的)map to their bank cards 37 In the same way you can store your card details when shopping onlineShoppers can then turn up to the supermarket with not
41、hing on them but their own hands and use them to make payments in just three seconds It comes as previous studies have found fingerprint recognition，used widely on mobile phones，can be copied even from finger marks left on phone screensBut Sthaler，the firm behind the technology，says vein technology
42、is the most secure biometric identification method as it cannot be copied or stolen 38 And it expected 3，000 students out of 13，000 to have signed up by November The technology uses an infrared light to create a detailed map of the vein pattern in your fingerIt requires the person to be alive，meanin
43、g in the unlikely event a criminal cut off someones finger，it would not workSthaler says it takes just one minute to sign up to the system initially 39 Simon Binns，commercial director of Sthaler，told the Daily Telegraph，“This makes payments so much easier for customers 40 ” AThis is the safest form
44、of biometrics BBank card safety is a big problem to most users CSthaler said dozens of students were already using the system DCustomersbank details are then stored with payment provider Worldpay EAdvances in technology have made online shopping a safe and convenient process for the most part FCusto
45、mers at a store in Brunel University can now pay using their unique vein pattern to identify themselves GAfter that it takes just seconds to place your finger in a scanner each time you reach the supermarket checkout第三部分 语言知识运用(共两节，满分45分)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
46、白处的最佳选项。 Last weekend，Daniel spent 43 hours with his daughter Esme，nearly two whole daysNow he is 30，000 feet up on a plane，looking at a picture she has 41 online，a“selfic(自拍)” He thinks about last weekend，that 42 FridayHe and his daughter watched the prints of birds in the 43 When the snow relented
47、(减弱)Esme 44 they go out，so they bought a plastic sled and drove out to the hillHe watched her 45 down the hill quickly with big laughter time after timeThen she said“Lets build a snowman”and they worked 46 ，making a great ball of snow around the bottom of the hill，and a small one for the headHe 47 h
48、is hat to the snowman and Esme made a face from 48 When they had finished，she 49 the hat to a better angle and then 50 its belly “Looks like you，Dad” Against the 51 of the planes engine，he 52 how，as they were leaving，he turned and saw the piece of grassland they had 53 all round the snowman He 54 ou
49、t at the vast fields of cloudsBy now the snowman would have melted and the grass would be a common piece of fieldMaybe someone walking there might see a 55 and a pile of branchesThey might 56 ，just for a moment，about who left them there and why He didnt take a picture of the 57 ，neither did EsmeBut
50、when he 58 his eyes he could hear his daughters loud 59 And he could feel the weight of tiredness in his arms and legs as he 60 his own sleeping daughter to bed that night41Adescribed Bposted Ctaken Ddownloaded42Acold Bwarm Cbusy Dsunny43Ayard Bwater Cearth Dsnow44Ainstructed Bwished Cinsisted Dorde
51、red45Arun Bsail Cdrop Droll46Atogether Bsmoothly Cin pairs Dwith caution47Aput down Bbrought in Ctook up Dgave up48Abuttons Bcarrots Cbranches Dstones49Aadjusted Bchanged Cadapted Dthrew50Ascratched Bhit Cpatted Draised51Amovement Bnoise Cequipment Dpicture52Aremembers Breminds Cwarns Dworries53Aswe
52、pt Bcleaned Cremoved Dexposed54Apours Bstares Csets Dpoints55Ahat Bcoat Cglove Dmask56Aquarrel Bwitness Cwonder Dexplore57Agrass Bsnowman Chill Dbird58Ahurts Bwidens Copens Dcloses59Ascreams Bsongs C1aughter Dcries60A1ed Bhugged Ctouched Dcarried第二节 (共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分) 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正
53、确形式。 At her first visit to a nutritionist，Lynn，a 53-year-old woman，just had one goal，“I need to get healthy!”Her blood 61 (press)had been too highShe had had stomach troubles for 15 years She slept 62 (poor)and suffered from extreme tirednessShe wag taking medicine for headaches， 63 had troubled her
54、 for yearsShe had experienced 64 (swell)and painful joints for many years The nutritionist noted her symptoms and suspected food sensitivityShe suggested that Lynn remove corn，dairy and wheat from her diet，keep track of her bodys reaction 65 the changes and then gradually introduce these foods one a
55、t a time When Lynn returned four weeks later，she determined that she had corn sensitivityAfter 66 (remove)corn，she was feeling much better，and the pain in 67 (she)back and legs had disappeared After eight weeks，Lynn said，“Changes 68 (be)easy so far”She lost 20 pounds and her energy was much improved
56、“I wake up ready for the day，”she saidMuch to her delight，she was walking one mile and a half each day and was feeling more in control of her eatingAt 12 weeks，her energy continued to improve；she lost 69 total of 27 pounds，and she experienced 70 (1ittle)pain than ever第四部分 写作(共两节，满分35分)第一节 短文改错(共10小题
57、；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。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：在缺词处加一个漏字符号()，并在其下面写出该加的词。 删除：把多余的词用斜线()划掉。修改：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。 William Shakespeare，he was born in 1564 and died in 1616，is regarded as the greatest of all
58、 English writerHe started to receive a school education at age of sevenUnfortunately，he has to help his father with his business at home without finish his educationTo make out a living，he did many kinds of work，including teachingHe started writing in 1588 and became successful two years late Shakes
59、peare devoted his life on writing，leaving 37 famous plays or many great poemsMany well-know English sayings come from his works，so he has a great influence on the English language and English literature第二节 书面表达(满分25分) 假定你是李华，北京大学的王教授将来你校做主题为“中国传统节日”的报告。请写一封电子邮件，邀请你校美籍留学生John来听报告。内容包括：1时间和地点；2主要内容；3注意事项等。注意：1词数100左右； 2可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。_