1、2017年辽宁省沈阳市高三下学期教学质量检测第二次模拟试题英语 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） 阅读下面短文，从每题所给的 A、 B、 C和 D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy by Karen Foxlee Type: Fantasy When Ophelia moves to a strange city where it never stops snowing, she discovers a boy locked away for 75 years in a muse
2、um. She must help the boy before the Snow Queen freezes the world. Along the way, Ophelia learns how to believe in things she cannot see. Targeted readers: People who like fairy tales would enjoy this book. A Hundred Horses by Sarah Lean Type: Mystery The wooden horse Nell brings along during her vi
3、sits to aunt and cousins is stolen by a girl named Angel. As Nell finds out Angers true identity, a bond grows between them and a group of 99 horses. Word has it that the 100th horse is magical. But where is it? Nell doesnt know, but Angel might know. Targeted readers: Kids who like animals and natu
4、re will be sure to find this book exciting. How to Catch a Bogle by Catherine Jinks Type: Fantasy Birdie is an orphan who is good at trapping monsters with her singing voice. She is the only goblin (妖精 ) hunter in the world. When kids go missing, its up to her to figure out why. Targeted readers: An
5、yone who is looking for monsters will take great pleasure in this book. I Even Funnier. A Middle School Story by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein Type: Fiction After a car accident Jamie loses his family, so he moves in with his aunt, uncle and his cousin Stevie, whose basic aim is to trick Jam
6、ie. But Jamie keeps having a positive attitude and running after his goals. He has been recently honored the Funniest Kid Comic of New York State. Targeted readers: This book would be great for anyone who is fond of humorous books. 1. Which writer tells a story about a girl saving the world? A. Kare
7、n Foxlee. B. Sarah Lean. C. Catherine Jinks. D. James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein. 解析： 考查文章细节理解，根据文中所描述的第一本书 Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy, “She must help the boy before the Snow Queen freezes the world.”,可知 Ophelia在冰雪女王冰封整个世界之前必须要救这个男孩，所以 Ophelia是拯救世界的那个女孩，故选 A. 答案： A 2. Nature lovers may take
8、interest in . A. Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy B. A Hundred Horses C. How to Catch a Bogle D. I Even Funnier: A Middle School Story 解析： 考查 文意细节理解，根据文中所描述的第二本书是围绕马展幵的故事，且根据 “Kids who like animals and nature will be sure to find this book exciting可知这本书对于喜欢动物和自然的孩子们很有吸引力，故选 B. 答案： B 3. Who goes through
9、 life challenges without losing heart? A. Ophelia. B. Nell. C. Birdie. D. Jamie. 解析： 考查 文意细节推断，根据文中所描述的第四本书， “ After a car accident Jamie loses his family, so he moves in with his aunt, uncle and his cousin Stevie; whose basic aim is to trick Jamie. But Jamie keeps having a positive attitude and run
10、ning after his goals.”可知，虽然 Jamie因车祸失去了家人，不得不与叔叔婶婶还有表哥生活在一起，也会受到表哥的嘲弄，但他依然保持积极的态度，并且继续追逐他的梦想，所以他历经生活挑战却没有心灰意冷，故选D. 答案： D 4. In which section of a newspaper can we probably find this passage? A. Fashion. B. Literature. C. Business. D. Local news. 解析： 考查 文意整体把握，根据逻辑，向读者介绍四本书的不可能是在一张报纸的 fashion(时尚 )， b
11、usiness(商业 )， local news (当地 新闻 )版块里，只能是在 literature(文学 )这一版块里，故选 B. 答案： B B In the tiny village of Angelica, New York, the post office is more than a place to get mail or send packages. There youll find the heart of this lovely community. Its where villagers meet and greet friends. When Angelicas p
12、ost office was threatened with being closed in the 1980s， a villager， Pat, came up with a plan to save it. “At Christmas time I would hear on the news about towns named Snow or Bethlehem having celebrations,” says Pat, “Why couldnt we do the same thing with Angelica?” Pat, who is an artist， created
13、a postal cancellation (邮戳 ) design featuring an Angelica angel. She drew her angels in a traditional fashion and submitted her suggestion to the U.S. Postal Service. Once approved, the drawing was carved into a cancellation stamp that could be used for one day only. The postmistress (女邮局局长 ) then ha
14、d another idea to make the day even more special calling the post office Angel Station. The large increase in mail amount saved Angelicas post office from being closed and keeps the doors open today. Now its tradition that on the first Friday in December， people come to Angelica to mail their Christ
15、mas cards. Each year the amount of mail going through the Angelica Post Office increases during late November and early December. Stamp collectors from around the world have accepted the Angel Station cancellation, some sending mail from as far away as France. Because the stamp is destroyed each sea
16、son, Pat draws a new angel that conveys seasons greetings from Angel Station every year. Post offices may close in other parts of the country, but this tiny one continues. 5. What did Pat do to save the post office? A. She invented a new cancellation. B. She hosted Christmas celebrations. C. She gav
17、e the office a better name. D. She designed a special set of stamps. 解析： 考查文章细节推断，根据文中第三段 “Pat, who is an artist, created a postal cancellation design featuring an Angelica angel”,可知作为一名艺术家的 Pat,创作出了一个以 Angelica天使为图案的邮戳设计，故选 A. 答案： A 6. Which of the following can best describe Pat? A. Stubborn and d
18、etermined. B. Humorous and intelligent. C. Curious and friendly. D. Creative and warm-hearted. 解析： 考查文章细节推断，根据文中第二段 “When Angelicas post office was threaten with being closed in the 1980s, a villager, Pat, came up with a plan to save it.”,可知 Angelica邮局在 20世纪 80年代面临倒闭的威胁时，一个叫 Pat的村民提出了一项计划来拯救它，所以推断出A
19、ngelica是热心（ warm-hearted）的；又根据后文她发明了一个邮戳，可以推断出她是有创造力的（ creative），故选 D. 答案： D 7. What can we learn about Angelicas post office from the passage? A. It was completely closed in the 1980s. B. Its name has been changed many times. C. Its stamp remains the same each season. D. It is also the centre of lo
20、cal social life. 解析： 考查文章细节理解，根据文中第一段 “In the tiny village of Angelica, New York, the post office is more than a place to get mail or send packages. There youll find the heart of this lovely community.”可知，在 Angelica，邮局不仅仅是取邮件寄包裹的地方，也是这个可爱地区的中心，故选 D. 答案： D C As her son Cameron sits at his laptop comp
21、leting a task for his math degree course, Alison Thompson， a full-time mum， is busy helping her daughter Emma (two years younger than Cameron) get dressed. While help has always been available for Emma, Alison and her husband also have to fight to get Cameron the support he needs. “People could see
22、that Emma has special needs but because Cameron was doing so well at school, his teachers never thought there was a problem with him.” says Alison. It took Alison and her husband a while to realize their son was different. Camerons ability didnt become clear until he began primary school. Once he ev
23、en corrected the teacher when she told the class that zero was the lowest number. Cameron told her she was wrong because there were negative numbers (负数 ). He was four at the time. Now 14-year-old Cameron is at secondary school, studying for a distance learning math degree with the Open University,
24、having sailed through his GCSE at 11 and his A-level at 12, achieving top grades. Bethany, another daughter of Alison, is bright too but not gifted. She is the one who will remind absent-minded Cameron to put on his coat. She also helps him out in social situations. Emma attends a specialist school
25、and the family is quick to celebrate her successes too. “The other day she did up the buttons on her coat, which was real progress,” Alison says. Late last year the Thompsons took part in a television documentary (纪录片 ) to prove that not all gifted children are the result of extremely ambitious pare
26、nts. Gifted children need support too, but their lives dont have to be that different. Cameron is an example. 8. What does Paragraph 1 indicate? A. Cameron helps Emma with her math tasks. B. Teachers at school ignored Emmas problems. C. Both Cameron and Emma need parental support. D. The couple ofte
27、n have fights because of Cameron. 解析： 考查文章细节推断，根据文中第一段 “While help has always been for Emma, Alison and her husband also have to fight to get Cameron the support he needs.”可知，尽管 Emma总是能即使得到帮助，但 Alison和她的丈夫也必须努力让 Cameron得到他需要的支持，所以 Emma和 Cameron都需要父母的支持。 答案： C 9. What does the underlined phrase “havi
28、ng sailed through his GCSE” probably mean? A. Having passed his GCSE easily. B. Having taken his GCSE seriously. C. Having worked hard at his GCSE. D. Having suffered a lot from his GCSE 解析： 考察文章词义理解，文中第二段主要讲了 Cameron从上小学 起学习能力就非同一般，极其聪明，最后一句讲到 14岁的 Cameron现在正在中学里主攻远程数学学位，在 12岁时就已经轻松考过 GCSE，故选 A. 答案
29、： A 10. There are at least people in Mrs. Thompsons family. A. three B. four C. five D. six 解析： 考察文章整体把握，通读全文可知， Thompson先生的家里有三个孩子，分别是 Cameron, Emma, Bethany.再加上 Thompson夫妇，所以他们家至少有五个人，故选 C. 答案： C 11. What can be known from the passage? A. Emma has learned to take good care of herself. B. Cameron s
30、howed his gift before primary school. C. The children of the family are bright and gifted. D. Gifted kids are not so different as people expect. 解析： 考察文章细节理解，根据文章最后一段， “Gifted children need support too, but their lives dont have to be that different. Cameron is an example.可知，有天赋的孩子也需要支持，但他们的生活不必那样的与
31、众不同， Cameron就是一个例子，所以有天赋的孩子并不是人们所期待的那样与众不同，故选 D. 答案： D D On April 14th, 2010, my entire life changed in an instant. One moment I was joyfully riding through the sunshine. The next moment, metal, flesh and bone were spreading against the pavement in a thunderous crash. Another cyclist, biking careles
32、sly, had cut me off and sent me supermanning toward oncoming traffic. As if to symbolize the accident that had hit my life, another disaster also occurred on April 14th, 2010. It cost the airline industry l.7 billion. Ten million travelers were stuck for days. Economies all over the world were distu
33、rbed. This was the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull, one of Icelands many volcanoes. However, volcanoes are not all bad. In fact, they are necessary. They are responsible for the birth of new earth, and for the creation of rich soil. This eruption gave off 0.15 million tons of carbon dioxide into the at
34、mosphere daily. But cancelling 48% of the worlds flight travel saved about 2.8 million tons of CO2 from entering the atmosphere， temporarily decreasing our carbon footprint. Similarly, the accident had badly affected my emotion but it also allowed me to look more closely inside myself and discover t
35、hings about myself I never would have realized. I learned how not to judge myself for my new limitations. In 1973, another Icelandic volcano, Eldfell, broke out. Icelanders decided to bomb it with cold water until it froze and chose a different path. After their plan worked， they used the geothermal
36、 (地热 ) energy for the next 15 years to heat their homes. A good example of life bringing lemons, and making lemonade! One must move on from misfortunes, focusing only on the present moment and being hopeful for the future. I ran from April 14th, 2010, to every kind of escape. Eventually I ended up i
37、n university for a new-found love in Earth sciences. 12. What happened to the writer on April 14th, 2010? A. He was involved in a car crash. B. He was stuck in Icelands airport. C. He witnessed a volcanic eruption. D. He was badly injured on a bike ride. 解析： 考查文章细节理解，根据文中第一段 “One moment I was joyful
38、ly riding through the sunshine. The next moment, metal,flesh,and bone were spreading against the pavement in a thunderous crash. ”可知，作者在前一时刻还在快乐地穿越阳光骑行，下一时刻就发生了震耳欲聋的车祸，金属、血肉、还有骨头在人行道上横飞，所以作者是在骑车过程中严重受伤，故选 D. 答案： D 13. Which was an effect of the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull? A. Economy was cost globa
39、lly by the eruption. B. Carbon dioxide was increased temporarily. C. The earth in Ireland was terribly polluted. D. Most of the worlds planes were held up. 解析： 考查文章细节理解，根据文中第二段 “Economies all over the world were disturbed. This was the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull, one of Icelands many volcanoes.”可知
40、， Eyjafjallajokull火山的爆发，使得全球的经济受到了打击，故选 A. 答案： A 14. Why did the writer mention the Eldfell volcano? A. It broke out in Iceland on April 14th as well. B. It symbolized the accident that changed his life. C. It encouraged him to know more about himself. D. It told us to make the most of given situati
41、on. 解析： 考查文章细节推断，根据文中倒数第二段 “One must move on from misfortunes, focusing only on the present moment and being hopeful for the future.”可知，提到 Eldfell火山是为了告诉人们在不幸当中继续前行，关注于现在，寄希望于未来，故选 D. 答案： D 15. What is the best title for the passage? A. Inspiration from Disasters B. Escape from Volcanoes C. Love for
42、 Earth Science D. Attitude towards Nature 解析： 考查文章主旨大意，文中前两段讲述了让我生活遭受重击的两个灾难：车祸以及火山爆发，但从第三段开始斗转直 下， “However, volcanoes are not all bad. In fact, they are necessary. They are responsible for the birth of new earth, and for the creation of rich soil”,告诉我们并不是所有的火山都是不好的，实际上火山爆发是必要的，它可以促进土壤的新生，可以创造出肥沃的土
43、壤，接着又举例说明了 Eyjafjallajokull火山以及 Eldfell火山的爆发带来的益处，最后告诉我们 要着眼于现在，在灾难中前行，故选 A. 答案： A 第二节（共 5小题；每小题 2分，满分 10分） 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填人空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 Mary had feared the day she would draw a blank during a presentation. Then one day during a 45-minute speech, it happened. _16_. To help herself get b
44、ack on track, Mary asked the audience to look at the handout and tell her what topic was up next. At the end of her presentation, audience members gave her top marks for organization. “What I learned is that the audience doesnt care if you mess up, and what they care about is what you are going to d
45、o about it,” Mary said. “My nervousness went away when I concentrated not on myself, but instead just thought, How is my speech going to help the audience? _17_. Every single step of the way， ask yourself, Whats in it for them?” _18_ Carter is the founder of Canada-based presentation skills training
46、 company. When possible, he gets to the location of his presentation the day before to make sure all the electronic aids work. He wants to ensure the screen, lighting and inputs all work properly. “In addition, build an extra plan before you present.” he said. Involve the audience Whether you are gi
47、ving a one-on-one talk or a speech in front of 400 people, think “story-telling”. _19_. The way to a persons head is through his heart. Sometimes all it takes is a few seconds to connect an audience member with a story. Moreover, one thing that shocks people back into attention is to leave an almost
48、 uncomfortably long pause. _20_. A. Keep order B. Be prepared C. That brings them back to the speaker D. She forgot what she was going to say E. Once you do that, it gets rid of the fear F. Story-telling makes messages easy to remember G. Stories combine data and information with emotion 解析： 16.空格位于
49、 “Mary had feared the day she would draw a blank during a presentation. Then one day during a 45-minute speech, it happened (Mary害怕在演讲时忘词，然后在一次 45分钟的演讲中她确实忘词了）后， D选项中 She forgot what she was going to say正好与其呼应，故选 D. 17. 空格位于 My nervousness went away when I concentrated not on myself, but instead just thought, How is my speech going to help the audience?后，而 E选项 Once you do that, you get
