广东省肇庆市届高三毕业班第二次统一检测英语试题Word版含答案.docx

1、试卷类型：A肇庆市中小学教学质量评估届高中毕业班第二次统一检测英语本试卷共8页，卷面满分120分。考试用时120分钟。注意事项：1.本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。答卷前，考生务必将自己的学校、姓名、考场号和座位号填写在答题卡上。因测试不考听力，第I卷从第二部分的“阅读理解”开始，试题序号从“21”开始。2.回答第I卷时，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。写在本试卷上无效。3.回答第II卷时，将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。4.考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。第I卷第二部分阅读理解（共两节，

2、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, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。A Yuletide （圣诞节） Brunch With Dickens Thursday, December 8, 10:00 am 1:00pm Join us for a special brunch featuring delicious foods free from much salt and fat, soft beverages, and a special appearance of Gerald Charles Dicken

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7、joy some healthy food?A. 800-448-3883B. 302-888-4826C. 800-484-3283D. 800-888-482622. When will people meet Santa when attending Yuletide Brunch With Santa?A. December 17, 8:00am.B. December 18, 1:00pm.C. December 17, 1:00pm.D. December 18, 10:00am.23. What can people do when attending About Glass M

8、atters Wine Seminar and Tasting?A. Enjoy the performance ofSanta.B. Taste all kinds of differentwines.C. Appreciate Gerald CharlesDickens.D. Learn how glasses influence the taste of thewine. B Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer andsongwriter. Nicknamed Lady Day by her loyal friend and musica

9、l partner, Lester Young, Holiday had a great influence on jazz and popsinging. Her voiced style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of controlling tempo （节奏）. Above all, she was admired for her deeply personal and direct approach tosinging. She co-wrote a few songs, and

10、several of them have become jazz standards, notably God Bless the Child, Dont Explain, and Lady Sings theBlues. She also became famous for singing jazz standards written by others, including Easy Living and StrangeFruit. Her early career is hard to track down withaccuracy. But she later gained work

11、singing in local jazz clubs before being spotted by a talent scout （ 星探）, John Hammond in1933. Her voice and recordings were loved for the depth of emotion and intensity she could bring to classicstandards. Her range of voice was not the greatest, but her extraordinary low rough voice was soon to be

12、come very famous andinfluential. She was an important icon （ 偶像 ） of the jazz era and influential in the development of jazzsinging. In the late 1930s she began singing a civil rights song called Strange Fruit, a song which told the tale of a lynching （用私刑处死） of a black man in the DeepSouth. It was

13、very controversial for that period and it was not played onradios. It was recorded for Commodore Records and she performed it many times over the next 20years. Billie Holiday had a difficult upbringing which influenced her attitude towardlife. She experienced many violentrelationships. She also beca

14、me increasingly dependent on various drugs which contributed to her early death in 1959, aged just44.24. What made Holiday develop a new way of controlling tempo?A. Her musicalpartner.B. Her voicedstyle.C. Jazzinstrumentalists.D. Her direct approach to singing.25. Why was the song Strange Fruit bann

15、ed on radios?A. It was about a cruelstory.B. It concerned civilrights.C. It was recorded verybadly.D. It was performed manytimes.26. It can be learned from the text that Holiday _.A. had the greatest range of voiceB. was gifted and had a happy childhoodC. wrote a few songs including Easy LivingD. wa

16、s famous for her voice and way of singing27. Which of the following had a great effect on Holiday?a. John Hammondb. Her independencec. Jazz instrumentalistsd. Her hard experiences of growingA. a, b, cB. a, b, dC. a, c, dD. b, c, d C The night before your interview, the beating of your heart is sofas

17、t. You feel anxious, nervous anduneasy. Your imagination can make you feel likethat. Youre confused if you are able to drag the time to finish everything or you wish to stop it because there are a lot of “what ifs” in yourmind. Well, you call those feelings “interview nerves”. Its normal for all peo

18、ple who have little experience to feelthis. So how can you release nervousness in this situation?Actually there are some techniques to calm those anxiousnerves. Firstly, practice andprepare. Practice makesperfect. The more you are interviewed, the more confident you willbe. If you have failed once,

19、it doesnt mean its the end of yourworld. Everybody has a lot ofchances. All youve got to do is understand the reasons why you like thejob. Secondly, you should get your interview skills ready ahead oftime. So, in terms of that, you must know the background of the company and the position that youre

20、applyingfor. Askyourself: “Am I suitable for this kind of job?And do I have any extraordinary skills that I can show to them?” Think of some possible questions that youre going to face and find good answers to thosequestions. Thirdly, give only the facts and dont tell your life story tothem. Give as

21、sociated answers to thequestions. If they want to know about you, you could tell them something that is related to the job which youre applyingfor. In addition, you may also practice an interview with anotherperson. Last but not least, find someone who could share their experience with you and help

22、you create a realistic interviewsituation. Experience is a better teacher, most peoplesay. Learn from other peoplesexperience. And one more thing, interview coaching actually has competitiveadvantages. Find a professional coach in yourarea. It can cost a little bit but its worth it for the personali

23、zed coaching that youre going toreceive.28. The underlined words “what ifs” in Paragraph 1 most probably mean _.A. ideasB. chancesC. excusesD. questions29. Why do we feel nervous and anxious before an interview according to the text?A. We arent wellprepared.B. We have no specialskills.C. We have fai

24、ledonce.D. We imagine toomuch.30. In order to make your job interview more competitive, you should _.A. learn to be more aggressive during the interviewB. have a good knowledge of the background of the companyC. tell interviewers all about yourself whether it is questioned or notD. ask an experience

25、d friend to go along with you31. Whats the best title for the text?A. How to Prepare for Your Job InterviewB. How to Get Rid of Your FearC. What Are the “Interview Nerves”?D. What to Say During an Interview D Researchers studied the responses of the biggest living animals on the planet to stimulated

26、 mid-frequency military sonar （声呐）, which is used by military to detectsubmarines. By studying 17 blue whales, which feed on large groups of krill （磷虾） in the ocean, the scientists found the giant sea animals would cut short dives for food after a sonar “ping” . The animals also tried to avoid areas

27、 where the sonar had been used for some timeafterwards. They found that the whales stopped feeding for more than an hour after the sonar, resulting in a loss of around 1,000kg of krill for theanimals. The researchers say their findings disagree with the idea that military sonar has no influence on b

28、lue whales and other related species ofwhale. A second study by the same researchers also showed that military sonar caused another species of whale, the Cuviers beaked whale, to stop feeding and swim away from thesound. Dr Brandon Southhall, from the Long Marine Laboratory at the University of Cali

29、fornia who led the project, said, “These findings help us to understand risks to these animals from human sound and inform timely protection and managementdecisions.” The scientists argue that the influence of “active” military sonar on blue whales must be considered in environmental assessments bef

30、ore militarytests. They said they hoped the US Navy, which funded the work, would use the findings to search for ways of reducing the influence of sonar on whalespecies. Dr Stacy DeRuiter, from the University of St Andrews, who also took part in the studies, said, “While military tests have been said to be linked to whale strandings （搁浅）, we dont really understand the chain of events that lead tothat. The number of strandings also does not match the number of military tests and sonar events, so the Navy wants to understand thismore.”32. What did the new stud