内江市2013届高中三年级第二次模拟考试试题

英 语

1. 本试卷包括第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分，共10页。全卷满分150分， 考试时间120分钟。

2. 答第I卷时，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，再选涂其它答案标号；答第II卷时，用0.5毫米的黑色签字笔在答题卡规定的区域内作 答，字体工整，笔迹清楚；不能答在试题卷上。

3. 考试结束后，监考人将答题卡收回。

. 第I卷（选择题共90分）

第一部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分40分）

第一节语法和词汇知识（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分}

从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

1. I don’t exactly know what topic you are talking about, but I’ve got _____ main idea of _____article you mentioned just now.

A. a； an B. the；不填 C.不填；the D. the； the

2. —Gangnam Style is so amazing! You will hear it everywhere.

—Yeah. Sometimes a song _____be popular overnight.

A. can B. will C. should D. must

3. Now, you guys, please _____read the poem aloud. Tom, you are the first.

A. in short B. in doubt C. in turn D. in case

4. I sent him an e-mail, _____my congratulations on his success in passing the exam.

A. to offer B. offering C. offered D. to be offering

5. recently when more health problems directly caused by the current air pollution were

reported did the “ Beijing Cough” become famous.

A. Now that B. Even though

C, Not until D. Never when

6. US President Obama _____unity and hoped to do things as one nation and one people at

the ceremony for his second term.

A. called in B. called off C. called up D. called for

7. — It’s time to go now. It’s already 5 o’clock.

—Dear me! I _____it at all.

A. haven’t realized B. didn’t realize

0. hadn’t realized D. don’t realize

8. worries China is the way North Korea treats its nuclear tests.

A. It B. That C. This D. What

9. Yukio Hatoyama is the third Japanese prime minister _____the Memorial H?U of the

Victims in Nanjing Massacre.

A. to visit B. to be visiting C. visiting D. having visited

The car-pooling alliance is a nongovernmental and nonprofit organization in China, the purpose of _____is to deal with traffic pressure during the Spring Festivals

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

第二节完形填空（共20小题,每小题15分，满分30分）

阅读下面的短文,从短文后各題所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处 的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

Roger Anderecn wasn’t expecting any trouble on the road last New Year’s Eve, when he set off for a ski trip to the Bear River Mountains with his daughter Mia, 9，his son Baylor, 4, and his neighbor Kenya Wildman. 9.

At mile marker 473, Andcrecn saw a van that had skated off the road and instinctively(本能 地) 11____ his brakes. In an instant, his car rushed toward the 12____Logan River. As it hit the water, the car rolled onto its 13 ____and sank into the river.

Within seconds, the upside-down (面朝下）car was filled with water. Andersen began to 14____ the freezing water for the kids, but found none in the darkness. He had no choice but to swim 15____a broken window for help. That’s 16____ he saw a group of men appear there. They rushed into the 17 ____, shouting “ Who else is in the car?”

Andersen was 18____ , “ My kids are in the car! ” The river was only about four feel deep near the bank, but the car’s 19____ were jammed shut, and the windows were submerged(淹没）and 20____ to kick in.

They started to push this car! 21____ ，the car started rising, and Willden a 35-year-old former police officer, found himself staring into the 22____ eyes of Kenya ,(he Andersens ,neighbor， who had 23____ to find ah air pocket in the backseat. Willden 24____ the girl out through the broken window.

Up front, Mia was floating facedown in the water. Ben Belnap, a 31-year-old school psychologic, raced her to the 25____

Little Baylor was hidden under the 26 ____water that flooded the still submerged side of the car. The 27____ made every effort to flip(翻转）the car. With the car right side up, the men 28 ____see Baylor strapped into his car seat. Morgan Carlson ,a 56-year-old doctor, gave him chest compressions (按压）

As the kids fully 29 in the following weeks, they and Andersen went to see the men who had saved them with great 30____

“ A lot of people have asked me, ‘ Did you witness a miracle there? “l always say, “1 witnessed dozens " says Andersen.

11.

A.

repaired

B.

noticed

C. touched

D.

found



12.

A.

cold

B,

dirty

C. deep

D.

long



13.

A.

wheels

B.

scats

C. side

D,

roof



14.

A.

pump

B.

search

C. sink into

D.

dive into



15.

A.

over

B,

through

C, along

D.

across



16.

A.

where

B.

because

C. whether

D.

when



17.

A.

window

B.

icc

C, water

D,

boat



18.

A.

screaming

B.

waiting

C, warning

IX

swimming



19-

A.

lights

B.

sides

C. doors

D.

belts



20,

A,

impossible

B.

easy

C. sure

D.

useless



21.

A.

Naturally

B.

Amazingly

C. Honestly

D.

Generally



22.

A.

shining

B. happy

C. proud

D.

frightened



23.

A.

attempted

B. managed

C. thought

D.

stopped



24.

A.

pulled

B. persuaded

C. forced

D.

lifted



25.

A.

surface

B. bank

C. car

D.

room



26.

A.

clear

B. quiet

C. waste

D,

dark



27.

A.

doctors

B. drivers

C. passengers

D.

rescuers



28.

A.

might

B. should

C. could

D.

would



29.

A.

recovered

B. arrived

C. nursed

D.

gathered



30.

A.

relief

B. care

C. thanks

D.

comforts



第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分50分）

第一节,阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项,并在答题 卡上将该项涂k。（共20小题,每小题2分，共40分）

A

For centuries，the great scientists of the world struggled to develop a way to learn longitude (经度).

It seemed to those seeking to solve the longitude problem that the only solution was in the moon and stars. During the 17th century, English astronomers began a major effort to map the stars and their relationship to the moon as it passed across the sky. Royal Astronomer John Flamsteed worked at this task for forty years. The next Royal Astronomer, Edmund Hailey, spent another forty years gathering information about the moon’s orbit. In 1766，Royal Astronomer Nevil Maskelyne published the Nautical Almanac (航海天文年历）and Astronomical Ephemeris (星历表）.It contained all the necessary information about the moon and stars that sailors would need to help them learn their longitude. A navigator had to use complex observing instruments to note the position of the moon and stars. Then he had to seek the correct information in the Nautical Almanac about the moon and stars at that time of night or day. The final step in the process was to take the mathematical information from the book, link it to the current information and solve the resulting problem. This took an average of four hours to do.

While scientists were studying the stars and moon to solve the longitude problem，a man named John Harrison was working on another project. He was trying to build a clock that would help sailors learn longitude. He began developing his clock in 1730. It took five years to complete. Several years later, he built a second clock. Twenty years later, he completed a device that was smaller than the first two. But still he was not satisfied. Two years later, he produced a small clock that he could hold in his hand. The clock could tell the correct time in two places, meeting the requirements for learning longitude on the sea.

For many years after Mr. Harrison's work was completed, the idea of using a clock to learn longitude was rejected. However, that opinion changed when manufacturers learned how to make better and less costly versions of Mr. Harrison's clocks. The clocks became known as chronometers(航行表).

31. In which year did Mr. Harrison produce his fourth clock for sailors to tell their longitude?

A. In 1730. B. In 1735. C. In 1755. D. In 1757.

32. What does the underlined part in the last paragraph refer to?

A. The idea that sailors needed to use a clock to judge their longitude.

B The idea that sailors did not want to use a clock to determine their longitude.

C The idea that Mr. Harrison had invented the clock for sailors to tell their longitude.

D. The idea that Mr. Harrison had taken advantage of earlier scientists' findings about longitude

33. From the second paragraph we can infer______

A. astronomers spent 80 years to collect the necessary information to publish the books about longitude

B. scientists believed they had to learn the positions of the moon and stars first to solve the longitude problem

C. The new method for sailors to learn their longitude by observing the stars and the moon was not simple

D. After many years of hard work, it seemed not possible to learn longitude by observing the stars and the moon

34. Which of the following can be used to describe the history of solving the longitude problem?

A. Nothing is impossible. B. Where there is life there is hope.

C. Failure is the mother of success. D. Imagination will take you everywhere.

B

Many British people of my generation probably remember watching their first flea (跳蚤)circus on Michael Bentine's Potty Time. Potty Time was a children’s TV program which featured comedian Michael Bentine and a group of puppets (木偶）.Even as a child I never once thought that the flea circus which was featured on his show involved real fleas，so imagine my surprise when I read an article in a British newspaper about a group of performing fleas being denied entry to the UK by customs officers. The fleas and their boss, Professor Maria Fernanda Cordoso, had been on their way to perform at the Edinburgh Festival , one of Scotland’s most famous arts festivals, when customs officials decided that the Australian fleas in her troupe(剧团）were illegal immigrants and would have to be sent back. The trainer then 'had to find other local fleas and train them to perform the same act.

On reading the article I decided to investigate more and discovered that flea circuses have a long history originating in England in the 16th century. They had something of a golden age in the 1830s when L. Bertolotto set up his flea exhibitions in London. His exhibitions featured a flea orchestra playing flea music, fleas playing card games and so on. Dead fleas dressed as wedding couples were popular collectors’ items in the 1920s. And as late as the mid-1950s there was still a flea circus near Times Square in New York.

Training fleas can be very difficult，but there are a few methods that have proven successful. For example, there are chemicals that fleas don’t like. These can be put on a small ball and put among a group of fleas. The fleas will push the ball away with their legs