茂名市2015年第一次高考模拟考试英语试卷

本试卷共12页,三大题,满分135分。考试用时120分钟。

注意事项：

1. 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。用2B铅笔将试卷类型(B)填涂在答题卡相应位置上。将条形码横贴在答题卡右上角“条形码粘贴处”。 2. 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。 3. 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。 4. 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。

Air travel makes some people very nervous. The crowds, the noise and flying itself can cause 1 . But there are classes people can take to help them 2 the fear of flying. And there is 3 training for service dogs that suffer the same problem.

Service dogs almost never 4 the side of the people they care for. You will see them working on buses, trains and other public 5 systems. But the busy environment found at an airport can 6 even the best trained working dog.

People with disabilities depend on their dogs. They want the animals to safely 7 them through security areas. They also need the dogs to remain 8 on duty on the airplane, even when the flying is not 9 . This takes special 10 . The Air Hollywood K9 Flight School is one place where such help can be found.

The school has a piece of equipment that provides the sights, sounds and even the feel of an airplane in flight. Dog trainers say 11 training is based on a simple rule: preparation. Dogs need to be exposed gradually and 12 to the environment, to loud noises, to sounds and other dogs so that when this experience happens to them on a daily basis, they're able to act in a way that they're used to acting and that they don't get 13 .

Dog owners who 14 the training at Air Hollywood K9 Flight School say they now feel much more at ease about future 15 . Their dogs also seem ready for takeoff.

1.A.trouble

B. unease

C. accidents

D. diseases



2.A. defeat

B. describe

C. sense

D. record



3.A.professional

B. varied

C. free

D. similar



4.A.approach

B. bark

C. leave

D. take



5.A. association

B. running

C. transport

D. society



6.A. trouble

B. attract

C. interrupt

D. instruct



7.A. follow

B. guide

C. train

D. land



8.A.nervously

B. stressfully

C. calmly

D. enthusiastically



9.A.speedy

B. relaxing

C. dangerous

D. smooth



10.A. interest

B. attention

C. training

D. procedure



11.A. previous

B. cooperative

C. academic

D. successful



12.A. repeatedly

B.abruptly

C. occasionally

D. instantly



13.A. bored

B. excitable

C. energetic

D. fragile



14.A. attended

B. inquired

C. overlooked

D. recommended



15.A. career

B. flights

C. security

D. generations





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。

My Italian Grandmother was a wonderful woman. I always felt blessed growing up in her home 16 a boy. She worked hard, laughed loud, and was never afraid of 17 life threw at her.

When she fell and broke her hip in her eighties, my Dad 18 (force) to admit that he could no longer take care of her at home. It was with a heavy heart 19 Dad moved Grandmother into a nursing home.

Our whole family gathered together for her 90th birthday in the nursing home dining room. It was a wonderful celebration of her life and the love we all had 20 her.

Shortly after that birthday, however, life gave her the 21 (tough) challenge of all as age and illness started to take her mind from her too. The Dementia（痴呆） grew worse and worse. At times when I visited her she didn’t know 22 I was. During one of these visits I was holding her hand while she slept. When she awoke, her eyes stared at me and I could tell she didn’t recognize 23 . She looked down at my hand 24 (hold) hers and instead of pulling hers away, she smiled at me. Then she closed her eyes and went 25 (peace) back to sleep. I could see then that even though her mind didn’t remember me, her spirit still remembered love.

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

When Dekalb Walcott III was just 8 years old, his father, a Chicago fire chief, let him tag along on a call. Dekalb says a lot of kids idolized basketball player Michael Jordan when he was growing up in Chicago in the 1990s. Not him.

"I wanted to be like Dekalb Walcott Jr.," he says of his father.

So when his dad asked if he wanted to go on that call with him when he was 8, Dekalb was excited. "I'm jumping up and down, saying, "Mom, can I go? Can I go?' "

The experience changed Dekalb's life, he tells his dad on a visit to StoryCorps. "My eyes got big from the moment the alarm went off." the younger Dekalb says. " This is the life that I want to live someday. "

Now 27, the younger Dekalb is living that life. He became a firefighter at 21 and went to work alongside his dad at the Chicago Fire Department. Before his father retired, the pair even went out on a call together — father supervising（监督） son.

"You know, it's everything for me to watch you grow," his father says. But he also recalls worrying about one particular fire that his son faced.

"I received a phone call that night. And they said, 'Well, your son was at this fire.' I said, 'OK, which way is this conversation going to go?' " Dekalb Walcott Jr. recalls.

"And they said, 'But he's OK. And he put it out all by himself. Everybody here was proud of him.'

"And the word went around, 'Who was out there managing that fire? Oh, that's Walcott! That's Walcott up there!' So, you know, moments like that, it's heaven on Earth for a dad."

Dekalb Walcott Jr. retired in 2009. The younger Dekalb says he's proud of being a second-generation firefighter. "You know, it makes me look forward to fatherhood as well, because I'm definitely looking forward to passing that torch down to my son."

26. The underlined phrase tag along in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ______.

A. put out fire

B. watch basketball

C. follow his father

D. ask his mother’s permission

27. Dekalb Walcott III determined to become a firefighter at the age of _________

A. 8 B. 21 C. 27 D. 35

28. What did Dekalb Walcott Jr want to do before he was told that the fire was put out?

A. Go on with the conversation

B. Put it out all by himself

C. Supervise his son

D. Go to the fire scene

29. What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A. Dekalb Walcott Jr is proud to be a second-generation firefighter.

B. Dekalb Walcott III wants his son to become a firefighter too.

C. Dekalb Walcott Jr wants to pass the torch to Dekalb Walcott III.

D. Dekalb Walcott III is proud that his son has become an excellent firefighter.

30. Which of the following is the best title of the passage?

A. Passing The Torch: A Firefighter Dad's Legacy

B. Putting Out Fire: A Challenging Job for Father and son

C. Dekalb Walcott III: A Second-generation Firefighter

D. Dekalb Walcott Jr.: A Chicago Fire Chief

B

My family moved from Taiwan to a small town in central Georgia, where my dad got a visa for his family and a job. I had just learned English, and from what little I could gather from my classmates, Santa Claus would come down one’s chimney（烟囱） and put toys in one’s stocking on Christmas Eve! What a great country, I thought. After I looked up “stocking” in my Chinese-English dictionary, I knew what I had to do.

On that fateful night, after everyone went to bed, I took my longest, cleanest knee sock and attached it to a nail already on the mantel(壁炉). Obviously, the previous owners of this house were no strangers to this Santa character.

I woke up before everyone else on Christmas Day and ran to the fireplace. To make a sob story short, I was hit with the reality of an empty sock and the biggest lie ever told. I burst into tears, quickly took down the sock, and stuffed it in the back of a drawer. Santa was dead.

Every December since then, the topic of Christmas memories would unavoidably come up, and I would amuse my friends with my poor-little-me story. I had to make it as funny as possible, or else I would cry.

How could I know that Santa was just late? Nine years ago, on Christmas Eve, an older man with a white beard and a red cap knocked on my front door. He said, “I’ve been looking for you for twenty-five years.” He handed me a bulging red stocking, winked, and left. On top of the stocking was a card. It read: “For Becky—I may have missed you in the second grade, but you’ve always lived in my heart. Santa.”

Through tear-blurred eyes, I recognized the handwriting of Jill, a friend I had met just two months before. I later discovered that the older man was her father. Jill had seen the hurt little girl underneath the thirty-something woman and decided to do something about it.

So now I believe that Santa is real. I don’t mean the twinkle-eyed character of children’s mythology(神话) or the creation of American holiday marketers. Those Santas annoy and sadden me. I believe in the Santa Claus that live inside good and thoughtful people. This Santa does not return to the North Pole after a crazy delivery but lives each day purposefully, really listens to friends, and then plans deliberate acts of kindness.

31. What does the underlined part “what I had to do” in Paragraph 1 refer to?

A. Waiting for Santa Claus.

B. Putting a stocking on the mantel.

C. Asking for gifts from her parents.

D. Looking up “stocking” in the dictionary

32. It can be inferred from the passage that the author’s parents ____.

A. didn’t love their child at all

B. didn’t know the previous owners of the house

C. didn’t know much about Christmas tradition

D. didn’t have enough money to buy the author Christmas presents

33. When the author told her friends about the story, she felt ______in her heart.

A. proud B. amusing C. hate D. regret

34. By writing the passage, the author speaks highly of _____