郑州市盛同学校2013届高三4月模拟考试

英语试题

第一卷（三部分 共115分）

注意事项：

1. 答题前，考生在答题卡上务必用直径0.5毫米黑色墨水签字笔将自己的姓名、准

考证号填写清楚，并贴好条形码。请认真核准条形码上的准考证号、姓名租科目。

2. 每小题选出答案后，用2B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，再选涂其他答案标号，在试题卷上作答无效。

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）

做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。

第一节 （共5小题；每小题l.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。

例：How much is the shirt?

A. ￡19.15. B. ￡9.15. C. ￡9.18.

答案是B。

1. Why is Nancy always absent-minded recently?

A. Because she can’t sleep well.

B. Because she performs too much on the stage.

C. Because she goes to bed too early.

2. Where should the woman turn left?

A. At the first crossing. B. At the second crossing. C. At the third crossing.

3. What is the man doing?

A. Reading a love story on a book.

B. Reading a love story on the computer.

C. Seeing a horror film on the computer.

4. What did the woman see last night?

A. A film on Channel 1. B. A TV play on Channel 1. C. A film on Channel 6.

5. What will the woman do with the man’s dictionary?

A. Look for a best friend.

B. Learn how to look up new words.

C. Make sure of some usage of some words.

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，每段对话后有几个小题，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秒钟的作答时间。每段对话读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6, 7题。

6. How old is the lost boy mentioned in the conversation?

A. Three years old. B. Four years old. C. Five years old.

7. What probably happened to the boy?

A. He was kidnapped. B. He was killed. C. He was hiding himself.

听第7段材料，回答第8, 9题。

8. Why will Mrs. Smith not teach the two speakers?

A. Because she doesn’t like them at all.

B. Because she has got a disease.

C. Because her husband has moved to New York.

9. What will the man give Mrs. Smith as a gift?

A. A book. B. A picture. C. A photo.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. Why does the man call the woman?

A. Because he wants to know more about the house to be sold.

B. Because he wants to make friends with the woman.

C. Because he wants to earn some money from selling the house.

11. What’s the size of the house to be sold?

A. 114 square meters. B. 140 square meters. C. 150 square meters.

12. What is the man’s wife’s hobby?

A. Planting. B. Gardening. C. Painting.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What caused the boy in Vietnam to die?

A. A common cold. B. Bird flu. C. A heart disease.

14. How old is the boy mentioned in the conversation?

A. 5 years old. B. 11 years old. C. 14 years old.

15. When did the boy pass away?

A. On March 5. B. On March 8. C. On March 14.

16. When did the boy’s family’s chickens fall ill and die?

A. In late February. B. In late January. C. In early March.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What is the main idea of the passage?

A. Mexico, UK to cooperate in fighting against liver cancer.

B. Mexico, US to cooperate in fighting against lung cancer.

C. Mexico, US to cooperate in fighting against breast cancer.

18. What is the aim of the two countries’ cooperate?

A. To reduce death rate.

B. To make woman’s life colorful.

C. To raise money to cure the poor.

19. What is the best way to cure the disease according to the two First Ladies?

A. Early detection. B. Advanced technology. C. Successful operations.

20. How many new cases of this disease are detected yearly?

A. 1 billion. B. 1 million. C. 1 trillion.

第二部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）

第一节：单项填空（共25小题，满分25分）

从每题所给的四个选项（A，B，C，D）中，选出最佳选项。

21. Of all the subjects, I like ____ history best because it gives us ____ useful knowledge of things in the past.

A. the; a B. 不填; a C. a; the D. a; 不填

22. He lost his job three years ago; _____, he was seriously injured in an accident last week.

A. in the first place B. worse still C. on the contrary D. in other words

23. ---I failed today’s math test! What shall I do?

---____! Try once more.

A.Come on B. Hurry up C. Take it easy D. Don’t mention it

24. After talking with his father for about half an hour, he felt better and began to know how to ____ this kind of situation.

A. strengthen B. explore C. handle D. arrange

25. We can no longer ____to consider water an almost free resource that we can use as much as we like.

A. permit B. afford C. expect D. offer

26. On the international market, the price of petroleum has been falling down, which is now _____ it used to be.

A. as one third as B. one third as much as

C. one third more than D. as one third much as

27. I realized the purpose of the whole experience: I needed to learn to open my heart and give love without requiring anything _____.

A. by design B. for once C. in return D. as a consequence

28. I can spare you only a few minutes. Just tell me ____what happened.

A. personally B. spiritually C. thoroughly D. briefly

29. His heart racing, and tears ____ his eyes, Jack carefully unlocked the box.

A. filled B. filling C. to fill D. being filled

30. They say “____”, but there is every chance that Usian Bolt will strike again later this week, when he will try to break the 200 meters world record he set in Beijing.

A. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing

B. Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

C. Where there is a will, there is a way

D. Failure is the mother of success

31. There is ____ as a free dinner in this world, as the saying goes, “No pains, no gains.”

A. no such a good thing B. such no good thing

C. no such good thing D. such no a good thing

32. ---Can you let these new graduates take on the task?

---I’m afraid not. While they are energetic and ambitious, ____of them seems to be suitable for this demanding job.

A. no one B. any one C. none D. few

33. ---Did you watch the movie Tangshan Earthquake last night?

---I had planned to, but it ___ hard all the time.

A. is raining B. was raining C. has rained D. had rained

34. Is there a hospital around ____ I can get some medicine for my wounded hand?

A. that B. which C. where D. what

35. ____ of danger in the street at night, she had to go home, with a friend ____ her.

A. Warned; accompanied B. Having warned; accompanying

C. Warning; accompanying D. Having been warned; accompanying

第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1．5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36～55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

Sometimes, people are required to fill in personal information when they register online, which may lead to some unexpected trouble. Recently, the BBC is reporting that a 17-year-old girl in Australia posted a(n) 36 of her grandmother at home counting a large sum of cash that she 37 hidden in the house. Just eight hours later, two armed men 38 the girl’s house. They demanded to speak to her to find out where the grandmother’s house was, 39 they could get the money they had seen. 40 , the girl was not home at the time, so the robbers 41 a small amount of cash from the mother and left.

Because the 42 is still under investigation, local police aren’t saying 43 else about it. It’s not known yet whether the girl had used privacy setting on the Facebook profile page, and even whether the robbers 44 the girl in the past.

Two other 45 were at home then, a 58-year-old man and a 14-year-old boy, the girl’s father and brother. Luckily, no one was 46 . The robbers left peacefully after 47 that the girl was not home and that no one else there knew anything about the 48 that had appeared in the photo.

Police in both Britain and Australia are using the case to 49 citizens of the dangers of posting personal information on social networks and to suggest users of websites 50 doing so. The police say it is 51 that the girl posted a comment in the past that gave clues to the address, 52 that the robbers knew the girl in another way. 53 , they suggest, a posting by a friend on their site could have 54 such information. To find it, the robbers would only have had to search for those posting on other pages that 55 the girl’s name.

36. A. picture B. story C. blog D. video

37. A. kept B. made C. let D. got

38. A. knocked at B. looked at C. broke into D. ran into

39. A. even if B. so that C. as soon as D. in case

40. A. Usually B. Suddenly C. Fortunately D. Finally

41. A. spent B. left C. asked D. took

42. A. robber B. family C. case D. girl

43. A. few B. many C. little D. much

44. A. ignored B. knew C. remembered D. followed

45. A. members B. adults C. characters D. neighbors

46. A. escaped B. harmed C. killed D. buried

47. A. showing B. realizing C. discovering D. recognizing

48. A. cash B. grandmother C. house D. website

49. A. inform B. accuse C. rob D. warn

50. A. enjoy B. stop C. keep D. consider

51. A. possible B. important C. necessary D. strange

52. A. so B. or C. and D. but

53. A. Besides B. However C. Therefore D. Instead

54. A. taken up B. set up C. put away D. given away

55. A. included B. drew C. contained D. attracted

第三部分 阅读理解 (共20小题, 每小题2分, 满分40分)

阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A, B, C, D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A

BEIJING, March, 17th --The Japanese automaker Toyota will recall some 4,400 units of FJ Cruiser cars in China over seat belt flaws, China's consumer quality watchdog said Saturday.

The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) said on its website that Toyota China will re