1、 【高阶测控】甘肃省部分普通中学2016高考英语新课标学能专业高阶测控特练试题（二四）【全国优秀高中英语名师】甘肃庆阳 刘克炜注意：本试卷分第卷（选择题）和第卷（非选择题）两部分。满分120分。考试时间100分钟。第卷第一部分：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，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。A When I was growing up, I had an old neighbor named Doctor Gibbs. He didnt look like ally doctor Id ever known.
2、He never yelled at us for playing in his yard, but was always very kind. When Doctor Gibbs wasnt saving lives, he was planting trees. He had some interesting theories about planting trees. He believed in the principle. “No pains, no gains”. He hardly Watered his new trees, an attitude which flew in
3、the face of conventional wisdom. Once I asked why and he told me that watering plants spoiled them because it made them grow weaker. He said you had to make things tough for the trees so that only the strongest could survive. He talked about how watering trees made them develop shallow roots and how
4、, if they were not watered, trees would grow deep roots in search of water. So, instead of watering his trees every morning, hed beat them with a rolled-up newspaper. I asked him why he did that, and he said it was to get the trees attention. Doctor Gibbs died a couple of years after I left home. Ev
5、ery now and then, I walked by his house and looked at the trees that Id watched him plant some 25 years ago. They were tall and strong.I planted a couple of trees myself a few years ago. Two years of attending these trees meant they grew up weak. Whenever a cold wind blew, their branches trembled. A
6、dversity seemed to benefit Doctor Gibbs trees in ways that comfort and ease never could. Every night before I go to bed, I check on my two sons. I often pray that their lives will be easy. But lately Ive been thinking that its time to change my prayer. I know my children are going to encounter hards
7、hip. Theres always a cold wind blowing somewhere. What we need to do is to pray for deep roots, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we wont be torn apart.21. With the trees planted, Doctor Gibbs often _.A. heat them to attract neighbours attention B. kept watering them every morning C. talked
8、 to them to get their attention D. paid little attention to them22. What does the underlined word “Adversity” mean in the fifth paragraph? A. Bad weather B. Enough care or attention. C. Difficult living conditions. D. Lack of damp.23. Which prayer does the author wish for his sons? A. Have an easy l
9、ife, without too much to worry about. B. Be able to stand the rain and wind in their lives.C. Have good luck, encountering less hardship in their life. D. Meet people like Dr Gibbs in the future.B Searching for airfares often seems like a game that passengers are bound to lose. Prices change from da
10、y to day, even minute to minute. Looking through multiple websites for the best deal can be a big challenge. Even when you do book, theres no guarantee that you are going to get the best price. “You just dont know when to make a deal. Its not like buying anything else I can think of,” said George Ho
11、bica, founder of Airfarewatchdog. com. Harriet Levy paid $179 for a recent roundtrip flight on American Airlines between New York and Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Sitting just one row behind her, Shirley Harrison paid $ 215. A few rows back, Ellis and Dianne Traub paid $ 317 each. There were at least 1
12、2 fares on the flight, ranging from $169 to $360. Theres no reason for it, Harrison said. Fares can change significantly in just a few hours. One Delta flight from New York to Los Angeles jumped from $ 755 to $1,143 from a Friday to Saturday in late April, then fell to $ 718 on Sunday. The flight wa
13、s one of a dozen the Associated Press followed over three months for a vacation between July 16 and 22. The number one finding: avoid booking tickets on weekends. Its the most expensive time to buy. Theres no way to guarantee the best fare. But before booking, travelers should pay attention to this
14、additional advice: Book on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Thats when airlines most often offer special sales. Buy in advance, but not too early. The best time is four to six weeks before traveling. In general, prices for any given flight are highest eight to ten weeks and two to three weeks in adv
15、ance.Make use of social media. Airlines are giving more benefits to travelers who interact with them on Twitter and Facebook. But those specials are often gone within hours. Choose the stable or the lowest? The fares of some so-called discount airlines, such as JetBlue, Air-Tran, Southwest and Front
16、ier, are less changeable than other airlines, so you can feel more confident that the price will stay the same. But the fares arent always the lowest. In all, theres no way to guarantee the best fare, but researching different airlines fares can be the only way to get a good deal.24. What can we inf
17、er from the first sentence of the text?A. Airlines often play games with passengers. B. Passengers are unable to search for airfares. C. Its difficult for passengers to get the best price. D. Airfares are set in different situations.25. By using a lot of figures, the author intends to _. A. discover
18、 the rules behind airfares B. prove airfares can vary widely C. guarantee passengers a low price D. show there is standard price for every single airline26. If you want to take a flight on Christmas, which time can be the best to book a ticket?A. September 15th B. October 15th C. November 15th D. De
19、cember 15th27. Passengers are advised to book flights _. A. at the lowest price by comparing as many airlines B. with airlines which are famous for offering discount prices C. through two apps on smart phones D. on some special websitesC Sharing cars to work is not unusual. But what about sharing ti
20、me to raise children together? In Ningbo city of Zhejiang province in East China, young mothers in the same neighborhood pool their children together, and share the responsibility of being parents. Spending every day together, but not families in this coastal city of East China, three mothers are tr
21、ying a new way of raising their kids, by pooling them together. Among the mothers are both office workers and housewives. They say they do so not just because of the tight schedule. Jiujius mother said, “By kids pooling, we mean to create an opportunity for the kids to spend time together so that we
22、 can observe our kids, learn more about them. And then we can discuss how to better bring them up.” The three families have been doing so for two years, in school days and holidays. Their children have grown used to each others company. Chichis mother said, “My son was a bit shy. Weve been talking h
23、im to be more active, but he hardly changed. After joining the kids pool, suddenly we found him willing to communicate with others now. When we are not there, he has to rely on himself to get along with his pals.” Generally, mothers speak highly about the pooling. The mothers describe the pooling as
24、 bringing the running water into a closed pond. It opens a window to a different world for both kids and parents. But there are moments when opinions differ. Xiaoxiaos mother said, “Sex education for example. Kids will be curious about it when they reach a certain age. Personally I want to talk with
25、 my child about it, frankly and sincerely. But the other two moms think it better not to bring it up.” Xiaoxiaos mother says her solution is to share some parenting guidebooks with other mothers and let them make the decision. The headmaster of the kindergarten believes such pooling activities test
26、not only children, but also the parents. Jin Hongqing, kindergarten headmaster said, “Parents need to be tolerant and patient. They shouldnt play the blame game when kids fight with each other. Its better to let the kids solve the issue by themselves. What they can do as parents is to communicate.”2
27、8. All the following aspects are the benefits of kids pooling EXCEPT _.A. It saves time and helps relieve mothers burden. B. It offers better education than the kindergartens. C. It allows parents to learn more about kids.D. It allows kids to learn to share and be independent.29. Why is sex educatio
28、n mentioned in the passage? A. To suggest children are sometimes curious about it. B. To explain sex education is not suitable for children. C. To indicate mothers think highly of kids pooling. D. To show sometimes mothers have different opinions.30. Whats the writers attitude towards kids pooling?
29、A. Unclear. B. Favorable. C. Negative. D. Doubtful.31. Which of the following can best serve as the title of the passage? A. Chinese parenting. B. Sharing cars. C. Sharing children. D. Kids pooling.DAlibaba started taking the lead in China by connecting big Chinese manufacturers with big buyers acro
30、ss the world. Its business-to-business site, Alibaba. com allowed business to buy almost everything. Alibabas advantage wasnt hard to judge: size. Alibaba is just big, even by Chinese standards. Its market attracts 231 million active buyers, 8 million sellers, 11.3 billion orders a yearand Alibaba i
31、s iust the middleman. It encourages people to use its marketsnot charging small sellers a percentage of the sale. If you want a quick look into the influence of Alibaba on daily Chinese life, take my experience. I moved to Beijing a year ago and quickly got tired of visiting small stores across the
32、crowded, polluted city of 20 million people in search of new electronics, bathroom furnishings, and anything else my wife wanted. “Youre looking for what exactly? Why not try it? ”my Chinese teacher asked me one day. With that, my wonderful new relationship with Alibaba began. Alibabas original busi
33、ness-to-business model now is second to consumer buying. Chinese retail buying makes up 80% of Alibabas profit, and leading that group is Taobao, with 800 million items for sale and the most unbelievable selection of things youll ever find. TMall. com is Alibabas other big site, where you can find b
34、rand name goods from Nike and Unilever near the lowest prices. What I have a hard time explaining to friends and family back in the U. S. is how China has gone beyond traditional shoppingbigbox retailers especiallyin favor of online purchases on Taobao and a few other sites. In smaller towns than Be
35、ijing, where big retailers have not yet traveled, shopping online is shopping, and shopping is Taobao. I have a list of some of my recent purchases on Taobao for a sense of how wide the marketplace is. Almost everything arrived a day or two after ordering with free shipping. Im not even a big buyer,
36、 because I need friends to help me search the Chineselanguage site. When I was searching my purchase history on my Chinese teachers iPad, which helps me buy goods, I looked through with great difficulty about 10 of her purchases for every one of mine.32. Alibabas advantage mainly lies in _.A. its lo
37、w price B. its not charging small sellers C. its business-to-business service D. its big size33. In paragraph 1, by referring to “Alibaba” as “the middleman”, the author means _. A. Alibaba stands out as the best online site. B. Alibaba is of middle size among all the online sites. C. Alibaba acts a
38、s a bridge between the buyers and sellers. D. Alibaba will continue to develop.34. What can be inferred from the passage?A. Taobao has no obvious advantage over other similar online sites. B. Alibabas business-to-business service earns more money than retail. C. The authors Chinese teacher is also a
39、n online purchase lover. D. TMall. com provides more profit than Taobao.35. What is the passage mainly about? A. How the author purchases online in China. B. Alibaba influences peoples daily purchase i China. C. Shopping online in China is TaoBao. D. Shopping online goes beyond traditional shopping.
40、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空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 Roger Sperry and Robert Ornstein of the California Institute of Technology, Nobel Prize winners, discovered that the human brain has two sides, and each side has different work to do. The left side of the brain controls language and nu
41、mber and it analyses and reasons. 36 It controls our appreciation of music and our sense of rhythm. It is also the right side of our brain which daydreams.Leonardo da Vinci was the great painter and sculptor. He was also an architect, a scientist and an inventor! 37 When he invented machines he used
42、 both his imaginative ability and his analytical ability. 38 Albert Einstein enjoyed art, playing the violin and sailing. Indeed, Einstein said his scientific discoveries grew from his imagination rather than from analysis, reason and language. He said that written and spoken words were not importan
43、t in his thinking. The story goes that Einstein was daydreaming one summers day while sitting on a hill. He imagined that he was riding on sunbeams to the far distance of the universe. Then he found that he had returned to the sun. So he realized that the universe must curve（弯曲）. 39 He then used the
44、 left side of his brain to apply analysis, number and reason. And finally he used language to explain it.Traditional education in schools encourages us to use the left side of our brains. Language, number, analysis and reason are given more importance in our schools than imagination and daydreaming.
45、 Why dont we give more value to visual thinking? Why jump on one foot if we have two perfectly good legs! 40 We need to use our imagination to think of solutions to problems and to enjoy emotional and artistic experiences. And we need to be logical able to analyze and organize in order to survive da
46、y by day.A. The right side controls our imagination and our understanding of space. B. Great scientists and great artists are similar. C. We all need both sides of our brain. D. He got this idea by using his imagination. E. We benefit by thinking creatively. F. He used both sides of his brain within
47、 each activity. G. He was considered crazy for his strange ideas.第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题15分，满分30分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从4160各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 I got a guitar for my birthday, and since then I have been struggling. Its kind of sad. To be honest, it is 41 how many prob
48、lems are caused by such a little thing in the life of a teenager. It has awakened another side of myself 42 me, and it couldnt have happened at a worse time. Im a senior, Im going to 43 and I know what college Im going to. And now I have to deal with this little voice in my head constantly 44 me tha
49、t Im going to be a rock star, not a scientist.A few weeks ago I was given the 45 simple task of writing a short story. I sat down to _46 a beautiful work of fiction that would 47 my teacher and classmates. To be honest, this is an area I generally feel very 48 in. I really enjoy it and such writing
50、tasks used to take the 49 amount of time. So I was 50 to write my story, and across the room lay my beautiful birthday present. “Once upon a time,” I wrote. Then I stopped, 51 in my chair, and stared for a moment at the _52 . Its dark red paint was 53 and I could see my reflection in its perfect sur
51、face. And then my reflection started dancing and singing. I wasnt 54 , but it surely was. Id follow its _55 . So I seized my guitar and plucked （拨动）a string. I sat rocking with my guitar until late _56 the night. I was sure I was preparing for the 57 much more efficiently now that I wasnt spending t
52、ime writing stories. Needless to say, no story was written, and many 58 arose in my mind. Since then, I have constantly asked, “Am I 59 for not wanting to do my work anymore?” More importantly, _60 , Ive learned I really am going to be a rock star.41. A. interestingB. surprisingC. disappointing D. e
53、xciting42. A. beyondB. with C. beforeD. within43. A. workB. writeC. retireD. graduate44. A. remindingB. teachingC. advisingD. fooling45. A. actuallyB. obviouslyC. seeminglyD. partly46. A. playB. carryC. create D. continue47. A. astonishB. frustrateC. amuseD. admire48. A. fortunateB. strong C. richD.
54、 happy49. A. mostB. largestC. leastD. best50. A. helpingB. refusingC. learningD. trying51. A. turnedB. seated C. editedD. digested52. A. floor B. instrumentC. deskD. paper53. A. shiningB. runningC. deepeningD. fading54. A. repeatingB. playingC. dreaming D. moving55. A. musicB. speed C. leadD. rule56
55、. A. for B. into C. at D. of57. A. futureB. universityC. life D. exam58. A. fears B. doubtsC. discussions D. troubles59. A. aloneB. curiousC. normalD. lazy60. A. even B. otherwiseC. thereforeD. though第卷 第二节（共10小题；每题15分，满分15分） 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。 An elderly carpenter was ready to ret
56、ire. He told his 61 （employ）of his plan to leave the housebuilding business to live 62 leisurely life with his wife, 63 （enjoy）his extended family. He would miss the paycheck each week, but he wanted to retire. The boss was sorry to see his good worker go and asked if he could build just one more ho
57、use as a personal favor. The carpenter said yes, but in time, 64 was easy to see that his heart was not in his work. It was an 65 （fortune）way to end a dedicated（专注的）career. When the carpenter finished his work, his boss came to inspect the house. Then he handed the front-door key to the carpenter a
58、nd said, “This is your house . my gift to you.” The carpenter was _66 （shock）! What a shame! If he 67 （know） he was building his own house, he would have done it all so 68 （difference）. So it is 69 us. We build our lives, a day at a time, often putting less than our best into the building. Then, wit
59、h a shock, we realize we have to live in 70 we have built. If we could do it again, we would do it much better. However, we cannot go back.第四部分：书面表达（共两节，满分35分）第一节：短文改错（共10小题；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。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
60、词用（）划掉。 修改：在错的词下画一横线，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。 The Oxford English Dictionary （OED） is thinking of adding the word “tuhao” for its newest edition. The word become popular in China during the past few months to describe the newly-rich people who spend money in wasteful
61、ways. The OED is also thinking of including “dama”, other Chinese word, to enlarging the English vocabulary. Many other Chinese words and phrases are likely to appear in it. The news which the OED is adding these words have met with some criticism. Some people say the words embarrass China, but othe
62、rs insist that in a globalized society its naturally for words to spread and be adopted at elsewhere. In my opinions, a word like “tuhao” expresses the humor and intelligent of Chinese people. So, welcome to the English language, tuhaolets be friends!第二节 书面表达（满分25分） 假如你是李华，新当选的学校英语学习社团（English Club）
63、团长。现在，请你写一篇介绍这个社团的广播稿，欢迎同学们参加。 1成立时间：2015年5月1日； 2社团目的：开阔学生视野，激发英语学习兴趣； 3具体内容：话题讨论（同学们感兴趣的或热点话题）； 常识积累（中西方文化等）； 比赛类（英语演讲、辩论等） 注意：1词数不少于100； 2请勿提及学校真实名称； 3可适当加入细节，以使内容充实、行文连贯；4开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。Boys and girls, attention, pleaseGood news for you!_Thats all. Thank you.【高阶测控】甘肃省部分普通中学2016高考英语新课标学能专业高阶测控特练试
64、题（二四）参考答案阅读：21-30 DCBCB CABDA 31-40 DDCCB AFBDC完形：41-50 BDDAC CABCD 51-60 ABADC BABCD填空：61.employer 62. a 63. enjoying 64. it 65. unfortunate66. shocked 67. had known 68. differently 69. with 70. what改错：The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is thinking of adding the word “tuhao” for toits newest editi
65、on. The word become popular in China during the past few months hasto describe the newly-rich people who spend money in wasteful ways. The OED is also thinking of including “dama”, other Chinese word, to enlarging the English another enlargevocabulary. Many other Chinese words and phrases are likely
66、 to appear in it.The news which the OED is adding these words have met with some criticism. Some that has people say the words embarrass China, but others insist that in a globalized society its naturally for words to spread and be adopted at elsewhere. In my opinions, a word natural opinionlike “tu
67、hao” expresses the humor and intelligent of Chinese people. intelligenceSo, welcome to the English language, tuhao- lets be friends!参考范文：Boys and girls, attention, please! Good news for you! An English club will be opened on May 1, 2015. It aims to broaden the students horizons and arouse your inter
68、est in English.The Club is a platform where we can do many things. Firstly, we can discuss lots of things on our interest or the hot topic around us. Whats more, we can develop our understanding of the differences between the eastern and western cultures. In addition, kinds of English activities will be held regularly, such as English Speech Competition, English Debate Contest and so on.Im sure the club will be of great benefit to our English study. And every one of us is welcomed to join in it.That s all. Thank you.
