湖南省衡阳市届高三英语第二次模拟试题实验班.docx

1、湖南省衡阳市届高三英语第二次模拟试题实验班2017届高三年级第二次高考模拟试卷英语（试题卷）注意事项：1.本卷为衡阳八中高三年级实验班第二次高考模拟试卷，分两卷。其中共72题，满分150分，考试时间为120分钟。2.考生领取到试卷后，应检查试卷是否有缺页漏页，重影模糊等妨碍答题现象，如有请立即向监考老师通报。开考前15分钟后，考生禁止入场，监考老师处理余卷。3.请考生将答案填写在答题卡上，选择题部分请用2B铅笔填涂，非选择题部分请用黑色0.5mm签字笔书写。考试结束后，试题卷与答题卡一并交回。预祝考生考试顺利第I卷 选择题（共100分）一.听力（每题1.5分，共30分）【已省略】二.阅读理解（

2、每题2分，共40分）第一部分 阅读下面的文章，从每题后面所给的四个选项中选出正确的一项。A Kathy Fletcher and David Simpson have a son named Santi. He had a friend who sometimes went to school hungry. So Santi invited him to occasionally eat and sleep at his house. That friend had a friend and that friend had a friend, and now when you go to d

3、inner at Kathy and Davids house on Thursday night there might be 15 to 20 teenagers gathering around the table, and later there will be groups of them crashing in the basement or in the few small bedrooms upstairs. The kids who show up at Kathy and Davids have suffered the pains of modern poverty: h

4、omelessness, hunger, abuse. And yet by some miracle, hostile soil has produced beautiful flowers. Kids come from around the city. Spicy chicken and black rice are served. Cellphones are banned. The kids who call Kathy and David “Momma” and “Dad,” are polite and clear the dishes. Birthdays and gradua

5、tions are celebrated. Songs are performed. Each meal we go around the table and everybody has to say something nobody else knows about them. Each meal the kids show their promise to care for one another.The adults in this community give the kids the chance to present their gifts. “At my first dinner

6、, Edd read a poem that I first thought was from Langston Hughes, but it turned out to be his own. Kesari has a voice that somehow appeared from New Orleans jazz from the 1920s. Madeline and Thalya practice friendship as if it were the highest art form.” “They give us a gift complete intolerance of s

7、ocial distance. When I first met Edd, I held out my hand to shake his. He looked at it and said, “We hug here,” and weve been hugging since.” Bill Milliken, a veteran youth activist, is often asked which programs turn around kids lives. “I still havent seen one program change one kids life,” he says

8、. “What changes people is relationships. Somebody is willing to walk through the shadow of the valley of adolescence with them.” Souls are not saved in bundles. Love is the necessary force.21. Why do kids come to Kathy and Davids house on Thursdays?A. To help the homeless at first hand. B. To experi

9、ence the feeling of home.C. To learn about the modern poverty. D. To plant beautiful flowers in poor soil.22. Why isnt the use of cell phones allowed at Thursday dinners?A. Kids need to tell stories about themselves.B. Kids are expected to care more for each other.C. Kids have to do house chores aro

10、und the home.D. Kids prepare songs for birthdays and graduations.23. What gift did the writer get at a Thursday dinner?A. The practice of the art form. B. The pleasure of enjoying jazz.C. The chance to listen to poems. D. The zero distance between souls.24. What does Bill mean in his words?A. Love i

11、s the power to change a kids life.B. Money is needed to start programs for kids.C. A program can change a group of kids lives.D. Kids change their relationships in a program.B In many countries, schools have long summer holidays, with shorter holidays in between. However, a new report suggests short

12、ening school holidays to stop children forgetting what they have learnt during the long summer break. Instead of three school terms, it says, there should be five eight-week terms. And there should be just four weeks off in the summer, with a two-week break between the other terms. Sonia Montero has

13、 two children at primary school and works full-time. She supports the idea. “The kids,” she says, “have much longer holidays than me and I cant afford to take several weeks off work, so I need someone to take care of them. But nobody wants the work in the summer months they all have holidays of thei

14、r own.” Not surprisingly, some young people disagree. Student Jason Panos says “Its a stupid idea. I would hate staying at school in the summer. Its unfair, too. The people who suggest this had long school holidays when they were young, but now they want to stop us enjoying the summer. The kids in S

15、pain and America have much longer holidays than here, but they dont forget everything theyve learnt in a few months.” Nadia Salib agrees. “Sure,” she says, “the first week at school after the summer is never easy, but you soon get back into it. The real problem round here is that kids get bored afte

16、r so many weeks out of school, and then some of them start causing trouble. But the answer is to give them something to do, not make everyone stay in school longer.”25. Why is Sonia in support of shorter school holidays?A. She doesnt get any summer holidays in her job.B. She is worried that her chil

17、dren will forget what theyve learnt.C. She cant afford to pay someone to look after her children.D. She cant get anyone to look after her children in summer.26. What does Jason say about long summer holidays?A. They can help children forget about school.B. Schools in other countries dont have them.C

18、. These days many older people have them too.D. They have little influence on childrens education.27. What does Nadia say about young people on summer holidays?A. They would like to spend more time at school.B. Long holidays are very bad for their education.C. They need something to do to enrich the

19、mselves.D. Long holidays should be shortened to stop them causing trouble.C Earlier this year, the social media website Facebook announced that it would work with several news organizations including The New York Times, The Guardian, and the BBC to place news stories directly into users personal Fac

20、ebook webpage. Stories published using Facebook Instant will load more quickly and keep the style of the original publisher, who will keep all the advertising income the stories earn at least for now. The deal shows how important social media has become to news organizations, and is a clear sign of

21、how the world of news is changing and has been for a while. When Google News began in 2002, many saw it as the death of the newspaper. It had no human editor. Instead Google used, and still uses, a secret computer program that selects and displays news stories according to the readers personal inter

22、ests. More recently, Associated Press and Yahoo! have been publishing computer-written articles. Both use special software to automatically produce stories about company financial results and sports reports areas where the quality of writing is felt to be of secondary importance to the accuracy of t

23、he data. Should we be worried about such developments? I think we should. One concern is that facebook, Google and other social media websites see journalism as a sideline, a way of putting people in front of advertisements. It isnt their primary function so if it stops making them lots of money, th

24、eyre likely to stop doing it. Theres also a concern that computer-written articles are not actually journalism at all, because what a human news team produces is actually quite complex. A well-written news story puts information in context, offers a voice to each side of an argument and brings the p

25、ublic new knowledge. Though economics and speed of delivery mean readers will probably choose a computer-written story over a carefully shaped article at least for daily news I dont think the computers will be writing any in-depth articles for a while yet.28. What is the main purpose of the article?

26、A. To report on a new computer service offered by Facebook.B. To advise readers against reading computer-written news.C. To express concern about recent trends in online news.D. To describe the process of online news reporting.29. Computer-written news reports have so far focused on sports and finan

27、ce because _.A. these are the most popular topics for online readersB. there are fewer journalists specializing in these areasC. information on these topics is more easily availableD. writing style is less important than accuracy in these areas30. What does the underlined word “It” in Paragraph 3 re

28、fer to?A. Journalism. B. Advertising. C. Facebook. D. Business.31. In Paragraph 4, which of the following is mentioned as a characteristic of a well-written news article?A. The information presented is up-to-date. B. The authors opinion is clear.C. Different views on the topic are presented. D. The

29、language used is vivid.D The Rugby (英式橄榄球) World Cup is currently being held in New Zealand. The tournament, due to finish on October 23, is living up to the famous English saying, “Rugby is a thugs (暴徒) game played gentlemen. ” The games are physically aggressive; the tackles (冲撞) on the pitch are

30、brutal; but the end of each match is a civilized affair. Players shake hands and applaud each other. Of course, the other side to this saying is: Football is a gentlemans game played by thugs. Indeed, unlike soccer players, rugby players dont often question the referees (裁判员) decisions or pretend to

31、 be injured when they are not. “Football could learn a lot from rugby, said Brian Moore, a former England rugby player The wonderful spirit of rugby is: there is a gentlemanly code to it. You play hard on the pitch, but you always respect your opponent. Rugby is mainly played in Europe. Australia, N

32、ew Zealand and parts of Africa. It is more enjoyable to play than soccer because you are always involved in the game, said Peter, a Welsh rugby coach. Rugby is also a far superior test of strength, stamina (耐力) and determination. Most professional rugby players are large, strong and weigh over 90 kilograms. People who play the sport need to be tough and be prepared to get hurt. Black eyes, broken bones, lost teeth and being knocked unconsciousa