普通高等学校招生全国统一考试泄露天机押题卷 英语二.docx

1、普通高等学校招生全国统一考试泄露天机押题卷 英语二班级 姓名 准考证号 考场号 座位号 绝密 启用前2018年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试 英 语 注意事项：1、答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。2、回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。3、考试结束后，请将本试题卷和答题卡一并上交。第卷第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）（略）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、

2、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AFlight Centre is a world-leading award-winning travel experience selling company, with stores in 14 countries throughout the world its pretty awesome! Due to our success and growth, we are looking for an enthusiastic travel consultant (travel agent) in our popular Camd

3、en store. If you would love to start a career in travel sales, this could be the job youve been looking for!Learn about a diverse range of countries, including a focus on Australia (where Flight Centre was founded!)Earn excellent awards in addition to a high base salary of 20,000 (OTE of 28K)Fantast

4、ic store environmentGreat travel opportunitiesAward-winning benefitsDo you want to: Work in a successful travel sales environment? Sell amazing travel experiences? Build a customer portfolio? Develop a career within travel? Be rewarded for your hard work with a great salary?If so, this is the role f

5、or you. With outstanding training, Flight Centre literally offers you the world and opens doors to its management pathway.What we are looking for:A desire for salesPassion for travel (first-hand travel outside of Europe)Outstanding people skills to warm our customersHigh level of education (degree p

6、referred)As our stores are open on the weekend and this can be the most popular time for our customers to visit, youll need to be prepared to work 3 out of 4 weekends (although you will only work 5 days a week).Our fantastic benefits include:In-house health and fitness team with free health screenin

7、gsFree health cash planEntitlement increase after 1 yearOpportunity to take 4-week travel leave every 2 yearsOpportunity to take 3-month vacationTax-free bike system Join us in our success and start selling incredible travel experiences!21. Who might be interested in the passage?A. Those who often t

8、ake flights.B. Those trained by professional organizations.C. Those who want to set up their own companies.D. Those who like travel sales.22. What does one need to do if he wants to apply for the position?A. Liking travelling and have communication skills.B. Working only five days a week in most day

9、s.C. Having special training experience.D. Mastering several foreign languages.23. Which benefit is not mentioned for the position?A. Long free holidays with salaries.B. The opportunities of being promoted.C. Abroad training opportunities.D. Good working conditions and extra awards.BWe went out to d

10、inner tonight to celebrate my daughters beautiful concert. We dont do this often because of our tight budget.I noticed a very tired mom in some kind of uniform come in with her three children, maybe about age 4 or 5. She looked like she had just finished work. She sat with them quietly taking care o

11、f all their needs. Then I noticed, as soon as their finally food arrived, she took a bite of her food and then one of the kids had to go to the bathroom. They all left the table and she ushered them so lovingly especially after what may have been a long day at work. I excused myself from the table a

12、nd went quietly to hostess stand. I handed the hostess $15 and said, “Can you put this anonymously to that mom of 3s bill? I am hoping it covered at least the childrens meals.” The hostess had such a lovely smile and enthusiasm for being in on this intention. I didnt stand around long as I didnt wan

13、t anyone even my own family to know what was going on. I wanted it to be completely anonymous.For the rest of my meal I did all I could not to put any more attention directly on the table, as I didnt want her to suspect me in the act.I thought about not sharing this story, but I feel like we are ste

14、alth, fierce each others candle holders and lighters- in our commitments to kindness, so it feels like I should share with you. Thanks for reading and thanks for all you do to inspire my heart to expand in greater kindness and commitment to more and more random acts of kindness. It feels so wonderfu

15、l to live in this type of world, one of abundance and kindness, instead of lack and self-service.24. What touched the author according to the passage?A. The warm atmosphere of dining out.B. A mother with tight budget treating her children.C. The deep love between the working mother and children.D. T

16、he exhausted mother looking after children with so much care.25. What did the hostess think of the authors behavior?A. Funny. B. Appreciated. C. Puzzled. D. Suspected.26. Whats the purpose of sharing the story?A. To call on people to offer help to others.B. To share the happiness of giving.C. To bui

17、ld a beautiful and nice world.D. To collect money for the mom in the story.27. Which is the best title of the passage?A. A meaningful dinnerB. A caring motherC. A warm kindnessD. A generous hostessCWith the holiday season well underway, its as good a time as ever to understand how your brain functio

18、ns when driving on those long car trips.Being tired or distracted while driving accountsfor 20 and25 percentof road crashes, with tired drivers even more likely to undergo distracting behaviors. Driving while tired can be just as bad as driving drunk. But what is it exactly that makes our brains so

19、bad at staying focused on the road when were exhausted? “When we get sleepy and we are performing a dull task such as driving, we tend to look for other things that increase our alertness,”said Chris Watling. “Studies have shown sleepy drivers undertake more distracting-type behaviors to increase th

20、eir levels of alertness such as gazing at passing scenery and speeding to increase their focus on the task of driving.”But its not only that it is likely that some tired drivers might also reach for their phones when driving to increase their alertness an obvious issue when youre supposed to be keep

21、ing your eye on the road.“These behaviors were found to be more prevalent when driving long distance, which at the same time are increasing levels of sleepiness due to the time-on-task effect,” says Watling.“Sleep is essential for a healthy body and mind but young peoples sleep is often compromised

22、by social activities, work or educational commitments,”he says. “Given young drivers are over-represented in crash statistics and more likely to be impaired by sleepiness and distraction, it is vital that we look at ways to reduce these behaviors and our focus should be on young drivers. That said n

23、o driver is immune to sleepiness and sleepiness is a state that most, if not all drivers on our road has experienced, and is habitually exposed to.” But until we finally all haveself-driving carsto drive us wherever we need, are there any solutions to keep yourself occupied?28. Why do tired drivers

24、seem to be more distracted? A. They look for ways to keep themselves awake. B. They are attracted by the passing scenery. C. They try other things to be excited at driving. D. They make efforts to focus on speeding up. 29. What does the underlined word “prevalent” mean? A. Strange. B. Common. C. Adm

25、irable. D. Social. 30. Which statement may Watling agree to? A. Young drivers are more energetic in driving. B. Young drivers are less distracted while driving. C. Young drivers are more exposed to be sleepy. D. Young drivers are immune to sleepiness.31. What will be discussed if the text continues?

26、 A. The difficulty of driving in a long trip. B. The signs of sleepiness in driving. C. The future of self-driving cars. D. The ways of being alert while driving.DAttempting to open very old books and records without damaging them can be difficult, but scientists in Switzerland say they have improve

27、d a method to read age-old documents without even touching them.Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology are using radiation, in the form of x-rays, to create images of the documents. This method is called X-ray computed tomography or X-Ray tomography.On a recent day, the researchers

28、 used X-ray tomography to read from a small 14th century document. Giorgio Margaritondo is working on the project. Reading from the document, he noted, “in the year 1351, a young lady from Venice.wrote a testament, and then the testament was sealed, and remained sealed for all these many centuries.”

29、Italian officials are planning to use X-Ray tomography to build an open digital system in the State Archives of Venice. Margaritondo says, “What you find inside the Archives are not only small documents. But most of the items are huge volumes the size of a table, and so we must be able in the future

30、 to look inside them.”Many of the documents show signs of weathering, and are easily broken. Fauzia Albertin is also working on the project. She says, “We need a technique to read inside them. Thanks to the use for thousands of years of iron-based inks we can read them using X-rays.”Albertin is also

31、 with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. The researchers have a lot of work to keep them busy. The State Archives of Venice has a huge number of records. They were produced over a period of about 1,000 years. The documents cover about 80 kilometers of shelf space.32. What writing method does

32、 the third paragraph use?A. Description. B. Giving examples. C. Comparison. C. Listing figures.33. What plays important role in reading old documents?A. The suitable weather. B. The sizes of the documents.C. The ancient writing tools. D. The years of the old books.34. Whats the passage mainly about?A. Attempting to open very old books with new technology.B. Th