陕西省西安市届高三二模考试英语试题含答案.docx

1、陕西省西安市届高三二模考试英语试题含答案西安市20192019学年度第二学期高三年级第二次模拟考试英语试题命题人：王家芳 审题人：高三英语组试卷说明：1.本试卷满分150分，考试时间120分钟。 2.请将所有答案填涂在答题卡上的正确位置。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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。1.What will the man do this afternoon? A Wai

2、t at home. B. Buy a new phone. C. Call the telephone company.2.What are the speakers talking about? A.A concert. B. The wedding. C. A famous band.3.Where does the conversation take place? A. In a hospital. B. In an office. C. In a store.4.When will the party be held? A. This evening. B. This Friday

3、evening. C. This Saturday evening.5.What do we know about the womans mother? A. She has much free time. B. She always goes home late. C. She cares much about her daughter.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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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

4、答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。听下面一段对话，回答第6和第7两个小题。6.What does the woman want to do tomorrow? A. Buy something on sale. B. Repair the water heater. C. Get off work earlier.7.How does the man feel now? A. Excited. B. Tired. C. Disappointed.听下面一段对话，回答第8和第9两个小题。8.What is the relationship between the speakers? A. Teach

5、er and student. B. Mother and son. C. Sister and brother.9.What do the students want the school to do? A. Fire some teachers. B. Rebuild the stage. C. Give them a one-week holiday.听下面一段对话，回答第10至第12三个小题。10.How long has the woman been waiting? A. About 10 minutes. B. About 15 minutes. C. About 30 minu

6、tes.11.Which bus does the man wait for? A. The NO.8 bus. B. The NO.7 bus. C. The NO.3 bus.12.Whats the weather like today? A. Cool. B. Rainy. C. Hot.听下面一段对话，回答第13至第16四个小题。13.Where will the speakers have breakfast? A .In the room. B. In the restaurant. C. In the office.14.What does the woman usually

7、have for breakfast at home? A.A sandwich. B. Coffee. C. A cup of milk.15.What are the speakers doing? A. Planning a trip. B .Preparing a meeting. C. Having a holiday.16.Whom is the man speaking to? A. His boss. B. His wife. C. A waitress.听下面一段对话，回答第17至第20四个小题。17.What is Wendy Wong company about? A.

8、Food. B. Buildings. C. Computer games.18.How does Wendy Wong go to school? A. By car. B. By taxi. C. By subway.19.What does Wendy Wong think of most of the school work? A. Difficult. B. Boring. C. Useless.20.Where does Wendy Wong spend her time after dinner? A. In her office. B. At home. C. At schoo

9、l.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，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。AJohn H. Johnson was born in a black family in Arkansas city in 1918. His father died in an accident when John was six. He was reaching the high school age, but his hometown offered no high school for blacks.Fortunately h

10、e had a strong-willed caring mother. John remembered that his mother told him many times, “Son, you can be anything you want really to be if you just believe.” She told him not to depend on others, including his mother. “You have to earn success, ”she said. “All the people who work hard dont succeed

11、, but the only people who do succeed are those who work hard.”These words came from a woman with less than a third grade education. She also knew that believing and hard work dont mean everything. So she worked hard as a cook for two years to save enough to take her son, who was then 15, to Chicago.

12、Chicago in 1933 was not the promised land that black southerners were looking for. Johns mother and stepfather could not find work. But here John could go to school, and here he learned the power of wordsas an editor of the newspaper and yearbook at Du Sable High School his wish was to publish a mag

13、azine for blacks.While others discouraged him, Johns mother offered him more words to live by.“Nothing beats a failure but a try. ”She also let him pawn(典当)her furniture to get the $ 500 he needed to start the Negro magazine.It is natural that difficulties and failures followed John closely until he

14、 became very successful. He always keeps his mothers words in mind. “ Son, failure is not in your vocabulary!”Now John H. Johnson is one of the 400 richest people in Americaworth $ 150 million.21. Johns mother decided to move to Chicago because _.A. his father died when John was very youngB. life wa

15、s too hard for them to stay on in their hometownC. John needed more education badlyD. there were no schools for Negroes in their hometown22. Johns mother _.A. didnt believe in or depend on othersB. thought one could be whatever one wanted to beC. believed one would succeed without working hardD. tho

16、ught no one could succeed without working hard23. The underlined sentence “Nothing beats a failure but a try. ”means _.A. if you try, you would succeedB. a failure is difficult to beat, even if you tryC. a try is always followed by a failureD. no failure can be beaten unless you try BIt seems hard t

17、o watch someone yawn（打哈欠） and not to yawn ourselves. Even reading about yawning can make you do it. Now, a new study has found why yawning has such a powerful force. Yawning when others yawn, the study suggests, is a sign of pity and a form of social connection. Kids dont develop this deeply rooted

18、behavior until around age four, the study found. Kids with autism (自闭症) are less likely to catch yawns. In the most serious cases, they never do. Yawning might help doctors to see whether the children are developing rightly. The work could also lead to a better understanding of the ways that people

19、communicate and connect. Emotional infection seems to be a born thing that connects us together, said Molly Helt, a graduate student in psychology at the University of Connecticut. Yawning may be part of that. Inspiration for her study came when she tried to get her own autistic son to clear his ear

20、s on an airplane. She repeatedly yawned at him, hoping he would yawn back. He never did. The fact that autistic kids dont do it might mean theyre really missing out on that emotional connection with people around them, she said. The biggest thing people try to figure out after birth is how we become

21、 humans and understand that humans have minds that are different from others, she added. Autistic people never seem to understand that. Like infectious （有感染力的）laughter and crying, scientists have found that yawning is a shared experience that promotes social connection. Helt said it could fight stre

22、ss after a period of being nervous and spread a feeling of calm through a group.24. What does the new study suggest, according to the first two paragraphs? A. Yawning is a form of communication. B. It is easy to stop yawning when you see others yawn.C. Children follow others in yawning just after th

23、ey are born. D. Yawning has some mysterious force which is related to God.25. According to Molly Helt, _. A. humans differ from animals because they communicate with others B. yawning is a kind of emotional connection among humansC. emotions are infectious, but yawning is notD. yawning helps clear e

24、ars on planes26. Which of the following is NOT true about yawning? A. It is natural to yawn back if people around you yawn.B. Some kids are too young to yawn after others.C. Yawning can be used to test childrens development.D. Kids with autism yawn easily when others yawn. 27. The author implies in

25、the last paragraph that _.A. yawning is different from infectious laughter and crying in theoryB. it is bad manners to yawn on some social occasionsC. the more you yawn, the happier you will be D. yawning can make people feel relaxed CSpace is where our future is trips to the Moon, Mars and beyond.

26、Most people would think that aside from comets(彗星) and stars, there is little else out there. But, since our space journey started we have left so much trash there that scientists are now concerned that if we dont clean it up, we may all be in mortal （致命的）danger.The first piece of space junk was cre

27、ated in 1964, when the American satellite Vanguard I stopped operating and lost its connection with the ground center. However, since it kept orbiting around the Earth without any consequences, scientists became increasingly comfortable abandoning things that no longer served any useful purpose in s

28、pace.It is estimated that there are now over 500,000 pieces of man-made trash orbiting the Earth at speeds of up to 17,500 miles per hour. The junk varies from tiny pieces of paint chipped off rockets to cameras, huge fuel tanks, and even odd items like the million-dollar tool kit that astronaut Hei

29、demarie Stefanyshyn Piper lost during a spacewalk.The major problem with the space trash is that it may hit working satellites and damage traveling spacecraft. Moreover, pieces of junk may collide with each other and break into pieces which fall back to the Earth. To avoid this, scientists have inve

30、nted several ways for clearing the sky. Ground stations have been built to monitor larger pieces of space trash to prevent them from crashing into working satellites or space shuttles. Future plans include a cooperative effort among many nations to stop littering in space and to clean up the trash a

31、lready there.28. What was the first piece of man-made space trash?A. A camera. B. A tool kit.C. A fuel tank. D. A broken satellite.29. Why were scientists NOT concerned about space trash in the beginning?A. It no longer served any useful purpose.B. It was millions of miles away from the Earth.C. It

32、did not cause any problems.D. It was regarded as similar to comets and stars.30. Which of the following statements is true about space junk?A. It is huge, heavy machines.B. It never changes position.C. It floats slowly around the Earth.D. It may cause problems for space shuttles.31. What has been done about the sp