盐城市2018届高三年级第三次模拟考试

英 语 试  题

第一部分: 听力(共两节，满分20分)

第一节(共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分)
1. What is the woman probably doing?

A.      Watching a movie   B. Reading a newspaper.  C. Making an advertisement.

2.       What are the speakers talking about in general?

A.      Their best memories of a relaxing holiday.

B.      Their travelling plans for the summer holiday.

C.      Their favorite ways of travelling around the world.

3.       When will the meeting begin?

A.      At 3:20.             B. At 3:40.              C. At 4:00

4.       Where are the speakers?

A.      In a shop.        B. In a restaurant.     C. In the man’s house.

5.       What does the woman mean?

A.      She doesn’t need the man’s help.

B.      She expects the man to move the desk.

C.      She wants to remove the books from the desk.

第二节(共15 小题; 每小题1分，满分15 分)
听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。

6. What does the man say about his job?

A.      The boss is really nice.  B. Workmates look friendly. C. Workplace is small and noisy.

7.       What can we learn from the conversation?

A. The boss told the man all the rules.

B. Mark will become the boss this year.

C. The man will cooperate with Mark.

听第7段材料，回答第8 至9题。

8.       Why does the woman talk to the man?

A.      He lost his student visa.  B. He often makes trouble. C. He is often absent from class.

9.       What is the worst result of the man’s behavior?

A.      He’ll be sent back home. 

B.      He’ll have to restart his course. 

C.      He’ll stay in the police station.

听第8段材料，回答第10 至12题。

10.   What does the man mainly mention about Helen?

A.      Changes in her character.  B. Problems with teachers.  C. Relationships with parents.

11.   What does the man decide to do in the end?

A.      Have a talk with Helen. B. Talk with Helen’s father. C. Spend more time with Helen.

12.   What can we learn about Helen?

A.      Her parents are very busy. B. Classmates dislike her.  C. Teachers worry about her.

听第9段材料，回答第13 至16题。

13.   What did Nick and Mel do when they were young?

A.      They learned to act at school.

B.      They went to live concerts with their father.

C.      They were encouraged to play music by their mother

14.   When was the band Krispy started?

A.      After Nick and Mel played together.

B.      After Nick began studying at a music school.

C.      After two musicians saw Nick and Mel playing.

15.   What do we know about the band in the first year?

A.      They recorded two albums.

B.      They joined a music company.

C.      They were welcome in the concert

16.   What has disappointed the man?

A.      Parents forbade them to join a company.

B.      His illness delayed a new album recording.

C.      The first album has sold under a million copies.

听第10段材料，回答第17 至20题。

17.   What can be clearly affected if teenagers lack sleep?

A.      Their spirits.  B. Their long-term health.  C. Their academic performance.

18.   What is to blame for teenagers not getting enough sleep according to the speaker?

A.      Poor diet.       B. Lack of exercise            C. Too much entertainment

19.   What advice does the speaker give to teenagers who have trouble getting to sleep?

A.      Listen to music.   B. Read a book.            C. Drink hot chocolate.

20.   What does the speaker suggest schools should do?

A.      Start lessons later.   B. Shorten the school day.  C. Offer classes in the evenings.

第二部分: 英语知识运用(共两节，满分35分)
第一节: 单项填空(共15 小题: 每小题1分，满分15 分)
21. Thomas made _____ his concerns about the changes that had been introduced at work.

A. plain           B. perfect           C. easy        D. ambiguous

22. Over the last four decades, the Chinese people have _______ enhanced productivity through hard work with a firm spirit.

A. roughly      B. merely    C significantly    D. equally

23. ----Can you give me some advice on how to deal with that tough customer?

   ---- I ______ to her instead of trying to explain over the phone if in your shoes.

A. will write   B. would write  C. were to write  D. would have written

24. My printer is five years old, so I’d like to ________ it and purchase a new one online.

A. delete        B. retire        C. refresh            D. declare

25. ----You should have heard Tom yesterday?

---- Sure. He’s charged with taking the car without the owner’s _______.

A. enquiry   B. privilege  C. command   D. consent

26. In terms of the urban effects of the technology, our cities are _______ for self-driving cars.

A. nowhere near ready    B. near nowhere ready

C. anywhere near ready    D. near anywhere ready

27. I sent in my application three weeks ago and they’re probably not going to call me back. I’m still ______ hope, though.

A. holding out          B. working out    C. figuring out  D. setting out

28. Many graduates aren’t prepared for what the future has _______ when they come out of school.

A. in demand   B. at ease   C. at length      D. in store

29. _______  to finding ways to make music accessible to all children is Ms. Thompson with a touring company of professional musicians.

A. Devoting  B. Devoted  C. Being devoted  D. Having been devoted

30. By December 2017, the number of Chinese netizens reached 772 million, ______ 753 million surf the Internet via mobile phones.

A. which         B. whose      C. of which         D. for whom

31. Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success _______ they gave up.

A. once          B. while       C. when             D. unless

32. Never throughout history has a man who _______ a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

A. lives          B. lived         C. would live        D. had lived

33. If we worked on the assumption _______ what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance.

A. where        B. if             C. whether           D. that

34. It had been many years since my last visit, but I found the house by _____.

A. losing my head               B. catching my eye

C. biting my tongue             D. following my nose

35. –Wall Street English just launched a new WeChat learning platform and we can take free classes!

   ---______! Let me have a look!

A. You don’t say             B. You have got it

C. You have me there         D. You can say that again.

第二节：完形填空(共20个小题，每小题1分，满分20分)

Stephen Hawking dies at 76 today, the day coinciding with the birthday of another legend of science, Albert Einstein.

His   36   are in a state of deep shock and have tweeted that the death of the greatest scientist is   37   for they believed the man to be immortal. There’s one thing that’s certain and it’s death,   38   how and when it comes is something that can’t be in one’s hands. Or can it be? Looking at how Hawking survived over half a century of being   39   the death sentence, the scales are tipping toward a yes.

And he indeed just didn’t   40   it; he succeeded. “However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and   41   at”, he said. During the course of his rare disease, his   42   to the field of physics stands out miraculously.

Now, what made the man a genius of mind? Was it his willpower or his   43   misfortune that strengthened his mind? He was    44   with a crippling disease at the age of 21, which progressively disables the individual In the   45   of his genius, however, fortune   46   him since then. His scientific work got   47   and better. The man, whose body was so fragile and seemed to   48   his genius, never gave up.

Some experts say perhaps Hawking was    49   diagnosed and this is the reason of his surviving over half a century. Also, doctors say the disease spread   50   than it does in most of the patients, giving him more time. Hawking himself said, “I have been lucky that my condition has   51   more slowly. But it shows that one need not lose   52  .”

Hawking seemed unaffected by the drawbacks life   53   at  him. He calls all his accomplishments that followed his disease a   54  . He indeed is a unique example of two mind powers   55   ----an astonishing willpower and a strong sense of determination. These two helped him fight against all odds.

36. A. ancestors                 B. doctors                   C. opponents       D. followers

37.A. unavoidable         B. unreasonable           C. unbelievable     D. unpredictable

38.A. or                 B. but                            C. so              D. for

39. A. handed over       B. turned over             C. taken over       D. run over

40. A. share               B. control                 C. change            D. survive

41. A. succeed            B. wonder                  C. point               D. laugh

42. A. explanation        B. distribution             C. contribution     D. attention

43. A. mental             B. emotional               C. financial         D. physical

44. A. infected            B. occupied               C. diagnosed        D. concerned

45. A. respect             B. event                    C. face            D. name

46. A. tricked           B. favored                 C. rejected          D. abandoned

47.A. thicker              B. tougher                 C. simpler         D. lighter

48. A. corrupt             B. fail                      C. spot             D. strike

49.A. precisely            B. entirely                   C. luckily          D. wrongly

50. A. easier              B. harder                  C. slower           D. quicker

51.A. evolved             B. progressed              C. recovered        D. improved

52. A. fate                 B. hope                  C. health           D. fortune

53.A. screamed            B. barked                C. threw           D. shot

54.A. bonus               B. deposit                 C. reward         D. gain

55.A. multiplied           B. combined               C. exploited         D. separated

第三部分: 阅读理解 (共15个小题; 每小题2分，满分30分)

A

   A Yale education emphasizes the importance of learning for public service. Founded in 1886, Dwight Hall at Yale is a student-run, staff-supported public service and social action organization. Below is a list of some active programs, which can be searched by name, cause, or type of service.

56. Which of the following is TRUE in terms of health and medicine causes?

   A. Volunteers will provide direct support services to AIDS victims.

B. AIDS Walk New Haven is targeted at Yale HIV-infected students.

C. American Red Cross at Yale encourages Yale students to donate blood.

D. Those joining American Red Cross at Yale should be medical experts.

57. As a new foreign university freshman, he/she is likely to benefit from ______.

A. AIDS Walk New Haven     B. American Red Cross at Yale

C. Best Buddies              D. Bridges ESL

B

Personally, I love writing reviews of any kind mostly because that way I can put all my thoughts about the subject on the paper. Before we go on, I have to mention it is different when you write a review for yourself i.e. your blog or website and for your professor in college.

To an untrained eye, reviews may seem pointless. What’s the point of writing about something when other people and your professor have already read the book? Isn’t it enough to talk about it in the class?

Just as movie reviews develop your critical thinking, book reviews do the same. It is not enough to read a book and call it a day; you have to establish your opinion, your likes, and dislikes. When a professor gives you this assignment, he/she wants to see your abilities to analyze the book and use vocabulary skills to discuss different parts of the plot.

Since we are accustomed to writing book reports at a very young age, it comes as no surprise we don’t’ think book reviews are different than a book report. Contrary to the popular belief, book reviews and book reports are two different types of writing. Knowing how they differ is essential for writing a high-quality paper that will guarantee a good grade.

Book reports usually centre around topical details about the author and the plot of the story. On the other hand, a book review is a more complicated approach to understanding and discussing a book. It doesn’t centre around a summary of each section, but you have to carry out a thorough analysis. As you grow and develop as a student, so does your ability to think critically. You don’t just sum up what you’ve just read but analyze every piece of the puzzle in order to show the ability not only to pay attention to detail but also engage thinking critically. Here, you have to be careful that you aren’t, actually, just retelling the story.

While book reviews may contain some elements of book reports e.g. author, characters, plot, the emphasis is to provide a more detailed insight, go deeper and elaborate strengths and weaknesses of the book, and discuss the elements of the story.

You know the difference between book reports and book reviews, now what? Now you’re ready to begin the assignment. In order to write a thorough book review, you have to pay attention to everything about the book, which is why writing down the information about the author, genre, etc. is strongly advised. That’s why you’ll need a pen and notebook where you can write everything.

58. According to the passage, what should be done before starting to write a review?

A. Identifying the target reader

B. Consulting with your professor

C. Developing an interest in reviews.

D. Listing all your thoughts on the paper.

59. The author shows the importance of a book review mainly by ______.

A. giving a solid example       B. making a reasonable assumption

C. drawing a valid comparison   D. providing a detailed description

60. Where does the fundamental difference between a report and a review lie?

A. Objective summary         B. Critical comments

C. Thorough comprehension    D. Personal abilities

C

The world’s most complex biological computer, made from a group of engineered cells, could one day be implanted into the body to detect diseases and deliver treatments.

In an early research in 2012, Martin Fussenegger at ETH Zurish in Switzerland and his colleagues engineered two kidney cells to become a biological circuit capable of simple mathematics. One of the cells was able to calculate addition: the presence or absence of each of two chemicals would switch on a reaction inside the cell that would make it shine different colors. The other cell worked in the same way but could substract amounts. This kind of biological circuit resembles a simple logic circuit in a computer. In theory, it could be used to indicate the presence of an infectious substance while in fact it failed.

Most biological reactions in the body aren’t that simple, though. They rarely rely on “one input and one output”----instead, multiple inputs lead to different outputs. For instance, a high level of calcium in the body in the presence of a specific hormone may suggest one disease, but a high level of calcium along with another hormone might indicate a completely different condition.

To be more practical, biological computers need to be able to perform more complex mathematics. However, it is hard to pack multiple calculations into a single cell. To get around this, Fussenegger and his team have engineered a multi-cellular system, in which different cells each perform a separate calculation and pass on the results to each other.

The system has nine cells, each containing a biochemical reaction that responds to three chemical inputs----similar to an AND, NOT and OR system in a traditional electronic circuit. These cells coordinate their activities by releasing chemicals that pass from one cell to the other. Together, they form a fully biological circuit that can respond to multiple inputs.

“Although it is not at a stage yet where we can test on animals, we believe it is the most complex biological computer ever assembled,” says Fussenegger. “This work addresses one of the major limitations in synthetic biology (合成生物学)---a lack of programmable devices,” says Angel Goni-Moreno, a synthetic biologist at Newcastle University, UK. He says that Fussenegger’s multicellular approach enables you to programme the circuit and achieve different calculations just by connecting the nine cells in different configurations(设置).

In the future, a biological computer like this could be used to monitor more complex medical conditions. For example, it could respond to a rise in calcium, a drop in a hormone and an increase in a biomarker, which together would signal the presence of a specific type of cancer, help diagnose it and alert the user to seek appropriate treatment.

61. The underlined word “substract” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ______.

A. add up    B. take away   C. split up    D. give away

62. What was the progress made in Fusseneger’s early research?

A. A biological circuit was implanted in one of kidney cells.

B. The indication of infectious substances became a reality.

C. Engineered kidney cells could switch on biological reactions.

D. Certain cells were made capable of performing mathematics

63. What has made Fussenegger’s current multi-cellular system so special?

A. It has all the functions of a traditional electronic circuit

B. It is programmable and able to perform different mathematics.

C. It has successfully packed multiple calculations into a single cell.

D. It has been tested through a series of experiments on animals.

64. What is the best title for the passage?

A. Smart cells indicating various cancers

B. Electronic circuit made from multi-cells

C. Programmable cells implanted in human bodies

D. Biological computer made from human cells

D

According to Guglielmo Cavallo and Roger Chartier, reading aloud was a common practice in the ancient world, the Middle Ages, and as late as the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Readers were “listeners attentive to a reading voice,” and “the text addressed to the ear as much as to the eye.” The significance of reading aloud continued well into the nineteenth century.

Using Charles Dickens’s nineteenth century as a point of departure, it would be useful to look at the familial and social uses of reading aloud and reflect on the functional change of the practice. Dickens habitually read his work to a domestic audience or friends. In his later years he also read to a broader public crowd. Chapters of reading aloud also abound in Dickens’ own literary works. More importantly, he took into consideration the Victorian practice when composing his prose, so much so that his writing is meant to be heard, not only read on the page.

Performing a literary text orally in a Victorian family is well documented. Apart from promoting a pleasant family relationship, reading aloud was also a means of protecting young people from the danger of solitary（孤独的） reading. Reading aloud was a tool for parental guidance. By means of reading aloud, parents could also introduced literature to their children, and as such the practice combined leisure and more serious purposes such as religious cultivation in the youths. Within the family, it was commonplace for the father to read aloud. Dickens read to his children: one of his surviving and often-reprinted photographs features him posing on a chair, reading to his two daughters.

Reading aloud in the nineteenth century was as much a class phenomenon as a family affair, which points to a widespread belief that Victorian readership primarily meant a middle-class readership. Those who fell outside this group tended to be overlooked by Victorian publishers. Despite this, Dickens, with his publishers Chapman and Hall, managed to distribute literary reading materials to people from different social classes by reducing the price of novels. This was also made possible with the technological and mechanical advances in printing and the spread of railway networks at the time.

Since the literacy level of this section of the population was still low before school attendance was made compulsory in 1870 by the Education Act, a considerable number of people from lower classes would listen to recitals of texts. Dickens’s readers, who were from such social backgrounds, might have heard Dickens in this manner. Several biographers of Dickens also draw attention to the fact that it was typical for his texts to be read aloud in Victorian England, and thus illiteracy was not an obstacle for reading Dickens. Reading was no longer a chiefly  closeted form of entertainment practiced by the middle class at home.

A working-class home was in many ways not convenient for reading: there were too many distractions, the lighting was bad, and the home was also often half a workhouse. As a result, the Victorians from the non-middle classes tended to find relaxation outside the home such as in parks and squares, which were ideal places for the public to go while away their limited leisure time. Reading aloud, in particular public reading, to some extent blurred the distinctions between classes. The Victorian middle class defined its identity through differences with other classes. Dickens’s popularity among readers from the non-middle classes contributed to the creation of a new class of readers who read through listening.

Different readers of Dickens were not reading solitarily and “jealously”, to use Walter Benjamin’s term.