2015年广州市高考模拟考试英语

2015．01

本试卷共11页, 三大题, 满分135分。考试用时120分钟。

注意事项：

答卷前，考生务必用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的姓名和考生号、试室号、座位号填写在答题卡上，并用2B铅笔在答题卡上的相应位置填涂考生号。用2B铅笔将试卷类型（A）填涂在答题卡相应位置上。

选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目选项的答案信息点涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案，答案不能答在试卷上。

非选择题必须用黑色字迹钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内相应位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。

考生必须保持答题卡的整洁。考试结束后，将试卷和答题卡一并交回。

I 语言知识及应用 (共两节，满分45分)

第一节 完形填空 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1～15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A civilized society has the virtues of beauty, culture, comfort and peace. However, the motor-car is 1 these virtues.

A visitor from outer space viewing our cities would conclude that the human race is made up of shiny metallic “beetles” creeping along vast networks. He is not far 2 . The motor-car, far from being 3 a vehicle for man, is determining the design of whole cities. The single largest consumer of valuable city 4 is its roads and car parks. If there were fewer roads, we could have more natural parks in which to 5 , more cultural centres and more public squares. Cars rob our cities of these civilized 6 .

Not only do cars occupy space, they also create 7 . Psychologists have confirmed that noise causes stress, and cities are indeed very noisy places. Cars are also the single largest 8

of air pollution. How can we say we are 9 when we live in an atmosphere full of stress and health dangers?

Our economy depends on 10 . These days it is becoming rare and 11 , yet cars continue consuming large amounts of petrol. Energy, which could be used to run factories and houses, is being 12 on roads.

Finally, cars have created a new type of monster, the motorist. Necessity has made man forget his gentle 13 and has transformed him into a selfish, dangerous monster, frightening innocent pedestrians, killing dogs, swearing at other motorists. The car is an outlet for his aggression.

To sum up, the motor-car has been 14 for destroying our cities, damaging our health, increasing economic problems and 15 humankind of their gentle nature.

1. A. representing B. promoting C. destroying D. replacing

2. A. removed B. better C. different D. wrong

3. A. generally B. merely C. finally D. hardly

4. A. space B. time C. material D. light

5. A. share B. relax C. hide D. work

6. A. pleasures B. manners C. individuals D. histories

7. A. conflicts B. chances C. noise D. growth

8. A. problem B. source C. effect D. provider

9. A. polite B. awake C. innocent D. civilized

10. A. energy B. wealth C. transportation D. industry

11. A. wasteful B. available C. expensive D. cheap

12. A. left B. burnt C. arranged D. produced

13. A. action B. appearance C. idea D. nature

14. A. suitable B. possible C. punished D. responsible

15. A. warning B. reminding C. robbing D. convincing

第二节 语法填空 (共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16～25的相应位置上。

A park officer noticed Sam consistently caught more fish than anyone else. While other guys caught only three or four a day, Sam’s boat was always full 16 fish. The officer, curious, asked Sam his secret. The 17 (success) fisherman invited the officer to accompany him and observe. So the next morning they took off in Sam’s boat and the officer got ready to see

18 it was done. Sam’s approach was simple. He took out a stick of dynamite(炸药), lit it, and threw it in the air. The explosion rocked the lake with such a force 19 dead fish immediately began to surface. Sam took out a net and started taking 20 up.

The officer, after 21 (recover) from the shock, began yelling at Sam. “You can’t do this! It’s illegal!” Sam, meanwhile, took out another stick of dynamite. He lit it and 22 (drop) it in the officer’s lap with these words, “Are you going to sit there all day complaining, 23 are you going to fish?”

The poor officer was left with 24 fast decision to make. He had suddenly been transformed from an observer to a 25 (participate). A choice had to be made quickly and with a sigh of regret he threw out the stick and waited for the explosion.

II 阅读 (共两节，满分50分)

第一节 阅读理解 (共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

It was my first day back home since starting college. A lot had changed in the last year. Not with my hometown but with me. I had left as a 17-year-old boy and had now returned as an 18-year-old man. In the city, I was living on my own, had a part-time job and was studying. Even the government recognized I was an adult; I had a driver’s license. So here I was, on my summer vacation, walking down the main street with my father, desperate for him to acknowledge how mature I was. When his recognition failed to appear, I took matters into my own hands. “Dad,” I said casually, “I’m thirsty. Let’s go for a beer.” It was the first time I’d ever mentioned beer in front of my father, let alone ask him to drink one with me.

He turned to me with a curious expression on his face. “A beer? Well I guess you’re old enough now. Let’s go to Sailors’ Bar. It’s where my cousin Tom, your uncle, used to drink. You remember him, right?”

I had only some vague recollection of my uncle. He was the black sheep of the family --- always in trouble. We didn’t talk about him much. “What ever happened to Uncle Tom, Dad? I haven’t seen him in years,” I said as we continued towards the bar.

“Neither have I, unfortunately. He was a good kid once. But things changed,” my father said mournfully. As a boy, he explained, there had been no better-behaved boy than Tom. But after leaving school, he moved to the city and fell in with bad company. He started going out every night, drinking in nightclubs and playing cards. Soon he lost everything and had to beg his mum to pay his debts. She agreed on the condition he returned home.

My dad took a deep breath and continued his tale. “Things settled down for a while. He married a lovely woman, gave up his bad habits. But it didn’t last. He was soon back to his old ways. He couldn’t resist. He was at Sailors’ Bar almost every night. His poor mother died of grief and shame. His wife followed her soon after.

“What ruined him was alcohol. He told me once, when a man begins drinking, he never knows where it’ll end. ‘So’, Tom warned me, ‘beware of your first drink!’

“He went from bad to worse. Last year Tom sent me a letter saying he had been found guilty of stealing, and sent to prison for ten years.”

Dad finished talking just as we reached the front of Sailors’ Bar. “Anyway, here we are. Let’s go in,” he said. But I understood. I put my arm around my father and said, “I’m not thirsty anymore, Dad. Let’s go home.”

26. Why did the young man invite his father to drink a beer?

A. Because he was thirsty.

B. Because he missed his father.

C. Because he wanted to show he was an adult.

D. Because he wanted to discuss his Uncle Tom.

27. What was the main source of Uncle Tom’s problems?

A. His overly-strict family.

B. His addiction to card games.

C. The deaths of his mother and wife.

D. His inability to control his drinking.

28. Where is Uncle Tom now?

A. In a bar. B. In prison. C. In the city. D. In his hometown.

29. In the story, the father told his son about Tom in order to ________.

A. warn the son to keep away from Tom

B. entertain the son while they walked to the bar

C. recall an interesting period in the father’s life

D. convince the son of the harm caused by drinking

30. What is the correct order of the following events from Uncle Tom’s life?

a. His mother died.

b. He married a lovely girl.

c. He started going to nightclubs.

d. He was caught stealing.

e. He went back home to live with his mother.

f. He left school.

A. d,f,e,b,a,c B. e,a,f,b,c,d C. f,c,e,b,a,d D. f,c,e,a,b,d

B

Are you smarter than your parents and grandparents? According to James Flynn, a professor at a New Zealand university, you are! Over the course of the last century, people’s IQ test scores have gotten steadily higher --- on average, three points higher each decade. This improvement is known as the “Flynn effect”, and scientists want to know what is behind it.

IQ tests are designed to measure general intelligence rather than knowledge. Flynn believes that intelligence partly comes from our parents and partly is the result of our environment, but the improvement in test scores has been happening too quickly to be explained by heredity. So what has occurred in the 20th century to help people achieve higher scores?

Scientists have proposed several explanations for the Flynn effect. Some suggest that the improved test scores simply reflect an increased exposure to tests in general and the learning of test-taking techniques that help us perform better on any test. Others have pointed to better nutrition. Babies now are born larger, healthier, and with more brain development than in the past. Another suggested explanation is a change in educational styles, with teachers encouraging children to learn by discovering things for themselves rather than just memorizing information, which improves their problem-solving skills.

Flynn has limited the possible explanations after carefully examining test data and discovering that the improvement in scores has taken place in only certain parts of the IQ test. Test-takers are not doing better on the maths or vocabulary sections of the test; they are doing better on the sections requiring reasoning and problem solving. For example, one part of the test shows a set of shapes, and test-takers must find the patterns and connections between them.

According to Flynn, this visual intelligence improves as the amount of technology in our lives increases. Every time you play a computer game, you are exercising exact