天水一中2015届高考第一次模拟考试试题英语

命题：王亮亮 审核: 赵良璧

本试卷分第I卷(选择题)和第II卷(非选择题)两部分。全卷共120分，考试时间为100分钟。

第I卷（选择题）

第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读下列列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。

A

Did you know that many people today are getting extra work by taking translating jobs online?

It’s true! And you can do it too. Many companies in the USA need translators now to translate simple documents online from Chinese to English, such as emails, website content, movie subtitles and more.

Companies like Real Translator Jobs are actively seeking translators from China to fill demand. There are more translation jobs than people to complete them. This leaves a big opportunity for anyone to start doing this and earn extra money.

Do you have to speak perfect English? No! Even basic knowledge of English is OK. This is really a job for anyone from China who wants to do it.

We spoke to one student from Beijing, Harris, who has been doing this for 2 years now and is earning between $150 and $225 every day. He completes about 3 to 4 jobs per day which takes him about 3 hours. It’s an incredible amount of money to earn on your spare time!

It is great that we now live in the “Information Age” and opportunities like this are available to people in China to earn extra money working from home over the Internet. It’s something that our parent’s generation could have never imagined. This type of work is surely to do great things for young people in China.

If you would also like to do this, it’s easy to get started. Just follow these steps:

1. Sign up at Real Translator Jobs (where Chinese translators are needed now), or a similar service.

2. Review the job posting and complete the ones you like.

3. Get paid once per month by cheque, PayPal or bank wire transfer.

I hope you enjoyed this information and good luck earning extra money online translating documents.

1．What’s the best title of the passage?

A. How to find a job on the Internet

B. How to earn extra money

C. Getting extra work by taking translating jobs online

D. How to find a friend on the Internet

2．Which of the following is not mentioned about the documents online translated?

A. Articles. B. Emails.

C. Website content. D. Movie subtitles.

3．If one company in the USA needs a translator, he or she ______.

A. should speak perfect English

B. can speak basic English

C. must come from China

D. must come from Beijing

4．Which step is not followed if you get started the translating job online?

A. Signing up at Real Translator Jobs.

B. Reviewing and completing the job posting.

C. Getting paid once per month by cheque.

D. Getting paid once a month in cash.

B

India has a very vast history and heritage(遗产). The country has witnessed some of the most important events in the past and every event has an effect of its own on the culture, religion, lifestyle, and economy of the country. This is one of the leading reasons why tourists prefer India to travel and explore. Historical tours in India provide everything that a traveler expects from his/her journey. These historical tours give an opportunity to study and explore Indian history.

Historical tours of India generally consisted of four phases: ancient, medieval(中世纪的), modern India and contemporary（当代的）India. Some of the historical travel packages are:

Forts and Palaces

The rich cultural past of India is reflected in the countless forts（堡垒）and palaces across the country. Most of the forts were constructed as a defense device to keep the enemy away and palaces were made on the names of the kings and queens. Some of the famous forts and palaces are: Agra Fort (Agra), Fatehpur Sikri (Agra), Hawa Mahal (Jaipur), Amber Fort (Jaipur), City Palace (Jaipur), Gwalior Fort (Gwalior), Mysore Palace (Mysore), Red Fort (Delhi), etc.

India Heritage Tours

The main purpose of India Heritage tours is to make Indians as well as tourists familiar with the rich Indian legacy(遗产). The heritage of the country is at least 5000 years. Some of the heritage tours are: medieval heritage, Rajput heritage, Golden Triangle, splendid Gujarat, etc.

South India Historical Tours

The Southern India is known for its diversity and there are many places, whic(景区) in South India include Goa, Cochin, Kerala, Munnar, Periyar, Kottayam and the list goes on and on.

5．The main purpose of this passage is .

A. to report some important events in the history of India

B. to introduce some tours that can explore the history of India

C. to help study the culture and history of India

D. to tell us how to explore the history of India

6．Many tourists prefer to travel to and explore because .

A. modern India has little to study

B. Indian people have an interesting lifestyle

C. its culture is greatly influenced by its history

D. India’s history is longer than that of any other country

7．Most forts were built in order to .

A. honor the kings B. act as a palace for queens

C. keep enemies away D. attract tourists

8．According to the passage, Rajput heritage .

A. is a famous fort in India

B. is one of the heritages in India

C. has a history of no more than 200 years

D. lies in South India

C

When you don’t have anything planned for the day or it’s rainy outside and your children are stuck in the house, why not sit around and tell them riddles（谜语）? Telling riddles will make your family laugh and sometimes even scratch their heads, trying to figure out what the answer is.

Riddles have been a pastime for centuries. Not only have riddles been something for passing the time, but they have also been used to pass on secret information during the Second World War. Even the ancient Greeks used riddles. They would tell riddles at parties and whoever was the first to get them right would receive prize.

Most riddles use words that have double meanings or share the same sound like “hear” and “here”. So in order to get the riddle, you will have to do some creative thinking and think of all the possibilities of different words. The difficulty of figuring out the riddle is based on the riddle itself. The riddle has to provide you with enough clues to come to the right answer, but that doesn’t mean that the clues have to be easy.

If you are looking to tell riddles but don’t know any, you can look online and you will find a large number of sites that will have hundreds of different riddles to choose from. If you would like to look somewhere else then you could look at your local bookstore, where you will be able to find many different books with thousands of riddles to choose from. You can even find websites and books that will tell you how to write your own riddles.

After you have found some resources that have different riddles, you will need to read through them to find the right ones for you and your family: You will also need to make sure that your kids will have a chance to figure out the answers. So take your time and choose the fight family riddles to tell.

9．What is the author’s main purpose in writing the text?

A. To recommend an interesting family activity.

B. To stress the importance of family activities.

C. To encourage children to read more books.

D. To introduce the history of riddles.

10．From the text we know that riddles _______.

A. do not have enough clues B. have a very long history

C. were used in World War One D. were first used in ancient Rome

11．In Paragraph 3, the author mainly ________.

A. discusses how riddles are created

B. explains why fiddles are interesting

C. tells people how to solve riddles

D. shows the benefits of telling riddles

12．To collect riddles, the author suggests ________.

A. one way B. two ways C. three ways D. four ways

D

Two recent studies have found that punishment is not the best way to influence behavior.

One showed that adults are much more cooperative if they work in a system based on rewards. Researchers at Harvard University in the United States and the Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden did the study.

They had about two hundred college students play a version of the game known as the Prisoner’s Dilemma. The game is based on the tension (紧张气氛) between the interests (利益) of an individual and a group. The students played in groups of four. Each player could win points for the group, so they would all gain equally. But each player could also reward or punish each of the other three players, at a cost to the punisher.

Harvard researcher David Rand says the most successful behavior proved to be cooperation. The groups that rewarded it the most earned about twice as much in the game as the groups that rewarded it the least. And the more a group punished itself, the lower its earnings were. The group with the most punishment earned twenty-five percent less than the group with the least punishment. The study appeared last month in the journal Science.

The other study involved children. It was presented last month in California at a conference on violence and abuse. Researchers used intelligence tests given to two groups. More than eight hundred children aged two to four the first time they were tested. More than seven hundred children aged five to nine.

The two groups were retested four years later, and the study compared the results with the first test. Both groups contained children whose parents used physical punishment and children whose parents did not. The study says the IQs--or intelligence quotients--of the younger children who were not spanked were five points higher than those who were. In the older group, the difference was almost three points.

Murray Strauss from the University of New Hampshire worked with Mallie Paschall from the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation. Professor Strauss has written extensively about physical punishment of children. He says the more they are spanked, th