广东省高三开学初模拟考试试题（十一）（英语）

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。
Entering the drama room I am immediately surrounded by the familiar sights, smells and sounds. Streaks(条纹，线条) of light cast by the blinds of the tall ___1___  send shafts(杆状物) of light through the dusty air. I take a deep breath and the concrete and paint ___2___ tickle my nose. I ___3___ everything about this room.
Some of the best times of my life have been spent here. It’s ironic(讽刺的), but the ___4___ is the only place where I feel that I don’t have to __5 ___ to be someone I’m not. Like many teenagers, I almost ___6___ think that people are judging me, but when I act, that feeling disappears.  People only look at your acting ability, not your clothing, money, choice of friends, or any of the other ways people are usually ___7  ___.
When I’m on stage, everything else vanishes(消失). All the worries and  __8  ___ of the outside world are put on hold. Nervousness is still present, but it’s the excited and tingly kind, not the queasy(不稳定的) ___9  ___ of being different and alone.
I ___10___ love to work backstage and on lighting. I ___11___ you could find another girl who would work on a ladder ___12___ her elbows in cables and dust and love every second of it. It makes me unique and gives me a sense of ___13___ to know that I succeed in an area where few others — and virtually(事实上) no girls — do.
High school is a difficult atmosphere, to put it ___14___. Like others, I’m often insecure(不安的), not ___15___ who I am or where I’m going in life. Wherever that may be, I will always have the confidence I get from theater.
1. A. doors                B. windows         C. roofs             D. walls
2. A. smells          B. tastes           C. sounds           D. looks
3. A. hate                    B. love             C. miss              D. forget
4. A. room           B. office           C. building         D. stage
5. A. pretend         B. expect           C. want              D. decide
6. A. hardly         B. seriously         C. constantly         D. happily
7. A. thought of       B. judged                C. taken care of      D. feeling
8. A. happiness         B. anxieties          C. chances         D. pressures
9. A. feeling         B. idea             C. hope              D. fact
10. A. seldom         B. almost          C. relatively           D. absolutely
11. A. hope          B. doubt           C. think             D. suspect
12. A. up for          B. out at           C. up to             D. down to
13. A. pride           B. duty             C. humor           D. sight
14. A. cruelly         B. tensely                C. friendly         D. mildly
15. A. fond of         B. afraid for        C. sure of          D. interested in

第二节语法填空(共10小题；每小题l 5分．满分l5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。
In social life, time plays a very important part．In the U.S.A.,guests tend to feel they are not highly regarded if the invitation  16         a dinner party is extended only three or four days  17          the party date．But it is not true in all countries．In   18        areas of the world, it may be considered foolish to make  19          appointment too far in advance because plans that are made for a date more than a week away tend                 20            (forget)．The meaning of time differs in different parts of the world．Thus, misunderstandings arise between people from cultures  21          time is treated differently．Promptness is valued highly in American life, for example．If people are not punctual, they may be regarded as impolite or not fully  22            (responsibility). In the U.S.A. no one would think of keeping a business associate  23           (wait) for an hour;   24           would be too impolite．A person who is 5 minutes late will say a few words of explanation,  25          perhaps he will not complete the sentence．

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。
Parents have to do much less for their children today than they used to do，and home has become much less of a workshop. Clothes can be bought ready made; washing can go to the laundry; food can be bought; cooked，canned or preserved; bread is baked and delivered by the baker; milk arrives on the doorstep; meats can be had at the restaurant，the work’s canteen，and the school dining-room.
It is unusual now for father to pursue his trade or other employment at home，and his children rarely，if ever，see him at his place of work. Boys are therefore seldom trained to follow their father’s occupation，and in many towns they have a fairly wide choice of employment and so do girls. The young wage-earner often earns good money，and soon acquires a feeling of economic independence. In textile areas it has long been customary for mothers to go out to work，but this practice has become so widespread that the working mother is now a not unusual factor in a child’s home life，the number of married women in employment having more than doubled in the last twenty-five years. With mother earning and his older children drawing substantial wages father is seldom the dominant figure that he still was at the beginning of the century. When mother works, economic advantages accrue，but children lose something of great value if mother’s employment prevents her from being home to greet them when they return from school.
26. The writer mentions home as workshop because______.
A. fathers often pursue employment at home
B. parents had to make food and necessity themselves for their daily-life
C. many families produce goods at home for sale
D. both fathers and mothers and mothers in most families are workers
27. The writer says that home has become much less of a workshop. He means______.
A. in the past, home was more like a workshop
B. home is much more of a workshop now
C. home-workshops are becoming fewer and fewer
D. home was less like a workshop in the past
28. The word“accrue”in the sentence“When mother...accrue，”is closest in meaning to
__________________.
A. change                            B. dwindle                    C. double                     D. increase
29. The chief reason that boys are seldom trained to follow their father’s occupation is ___________________.
A. that children nowadays rarely see their fathers at their place of work
B. that fathers do not like to pursue employment at home any more
C. that there is a wide choice of employment for children
D. that children also like to have jobs outside
30. What makes father no longer the only dominant person in a family?
A. With their earning，mother and children do not need to depend on father for their life.
B. There are many choice of employment for mothers and children.
C. Father does much less for his children today than he used to.
D. The number of married women in employment has increased greatly now.

The use of the word imitation（模仿） reminds me that we ought to make some more comments on the risk of people imitating what they see on the screen in the way of crime（犯罪） or violence. First there was always a risk of children acting out scenes which could be dangerous. For example, I remember a woman who was head of a middle school telling me that she had happened to look out of her window when the children were on the playground and had seen them putting a small boy on a chair with a rope round his neck and the rope over the branch of a tree; fortunately she was in time to get there before the child was hanged. I remember a film in particular in which the hero who was imprisoned had escaped by electrocuting（通电触死） his guard, the technique of doing this being shown in detail. This was the kind of scene which we could cut for these reasons.
In films for young people and adults we always tried to keep off the screen the details of criminal techniques, such as how to open a locked door with a piece of hard plastic or how to open a safe; if we were consulted（请教） before production, I used to advise that the details should not be shown. When I gave talks in prisons about film checking I had full support for this, since fathers who were in prison for criminal offences did not want their children to get on crime.
Every time I gave a talk in a prison someone used to mention the French film Rififi. made by Jules Dassin in 1954. This remarkable film showed in great detail a robbery of a jeweler’s shop, the robbery lasting about half an hour and being backed by only natural sound...one of the most brilliant film sequences（连续镜头） of all time. I remember our discussion at the time. We thought that the robbery was finished only with the use of advanced and obviously expensive equipment and that only the most experienced and skilled criminals could possibly imitate it; we believed therefore that it was relatively safe. When talking in prisons some years later I learned that there had been several robberies in which the techniques had been copied, so perhaps we were wrong.
31. The writer thinks that____________.
A. the details of the criminal technique should be kept
B. the details of the crime should not be shown on the screen
C. children should not imitate what they see on the screen
D. it is dangerous to imitate what they see on the screen
32. What is the writer’s attitude（态度） towards the film in which the hero had escaped by electrocuting the guard?
A. The writer likes it very much.
B. The writer is strongly against it.
C. The writer thinks the film has some value.
D. The writer does not show his/her attitude.
33. Parents in prison agreed to film checking because______.
A. they did not want their children to follow them
B. the crime on screen could be imitated without difficulty
C. they had given a talk on it
D. they had made mistakes
34 .All the following statements about“Rififi”are true EXCEPT______.
A. that the robbery shown needs experience and skills
B. that some very good tools were used in the robbery
C. that the film showed the technique in detail
D. that the technique of the robbery was not imitated
35. It can be inferred from the passage that______.
A. it is hard for children to tell the differences between real life and the imaginary
B. only people in prison support film checking
C. only children imitate what they have seen on the screen
D. the writer used to advise the details of crime should be shown

After too long on the Net, even a phone call can be a shock. My boyfriend’s Liverpudlian accent suddenly becomes too difficult to understand after his clear words on screen; a secretary stone seems more rejecting than I’d imagined it would be. Time itself becomes fluid—hours become minutes, and alternately seconds stretch into days. Weekends, once a highlight of my week, are now just two ordinary days.
For the last three years, since I stopped working as a producer for Charlie Rose, I have done much of my work as a telecommuter. I submit（提交） articles and edit them by E-mail and communicate with colleagues on Internet mailing lists. My boyfriend lives in England; so much of our relationship is computer-mediated.
If I desired, I could stay inside for weeks without wanting anything. I can order food, and manage my money, love and work. In fact, at times I have spent as long as three weeks alone at home, going out only to get mail and buy newspapers and groceries. I watched most of the blizzard of 96 on TV.
But after a while, life itself begins to feel unreal I start to feel as though I’ve merged（融合） with my machines, taking data in, spitting them back out, just another node（波节） on the Net. Others on line report the same symptoms. We start to strongly dislike the outside forms of socializing. It’s like attending an A. A .meeting in a bar with everyone holding a half sipped drink. We have become the Net opponents’ worst nightmare.
What first seemed like a luxury, crawling from bed to computer, not worrying about hair, and clothes and face, has become avoidance（逃避），a lack of discipline. And once you start replacing real human contact with cyber interaction, coming back out of the cave can be quite difficult.
At times, I turn on the television and just leave it to chatter in the background, something that I’d never done previously. The voices of the programs relax me, but then I’m jarred by the commercials. I find myself sucked in by soap operas, or needing to keep up with the latest news and the weather. “Dateline”, “Frontline” , “Nightline,” CNN, New York 1, every possible angle of every story over and over and over, even when they are of no possible use to me. Work moves from foreground to background.
36. Compared to the clear words of her boyfriend on screen, his accent becomes______.
A. unreal        B. unbearable                   C. misleading     D. not understandable
37. The passage implies that the author and her boyfriend live in______.
A. the same city                                               B. the same country
C. different countries                                        D. different cities in England
38. What does the last paragraph mean?
A. Having worked on the computer for too long, she became a bit strange.
B. Sometimes TV programs give her comfort and even makes her forget her work.
C. She watches TV a lot in order to keep up with the latest news and the weather.
D. She turns on TV now and then in order to get some valuable information.
39. What is the author’s attitude to the computer?
A. At first she likes it but later becomes tired of it.
B. She likes it because it is very convenient.
C. She dislikes it because TV is more attractive.
D. She likes it because it provides an imaginary world.
40. The underlined phrase “coming back out of the cave” probably means______.
A. going back to the dreaming world           B. coming back home from the outside world
C. bringing back direct human contact         D. getting away from living a strange life

　　Without proper planning, tourism can cause problems. For example, too many tourists can crowd public places that are also enjoyed by the inhabitants of a country. If tourists create too much traffic, the inhabitants become annoyed and unhappy. They begin to dislike tourists and to treat them impolitely. They forget how much tourism can help the country’s economy. It is important to think about the people of a destination country and how tourism affects them. Tourism should help a country, keep the customs and beauty that attract tourists. Tourism should also advance the wealth and happiness of local inhabitants.
　　Too much tourism can be a problem. If tourism grows too quickly, people must leave other jobs to work in the tourism industry. This means that other parts of the country’s economy can suffer.
　　On the other hand, if there is not enough tourism, people can lose jobs. Businesses can also lose money. It costs a great deal of money to build large hotels, airports, air terminals, first- class roads, and other support facilities（配套设施）needed by tourist attractions. For example, a major international class tourism hotel can cost as much as 50 thousand dollars per room to build. If this room is not used most of the time, the owners of the hotel lose money.
　　Building a hotel is just a beginning. There must be many support facilities as well, including roads to get to the hotel, electricity, sewers to handle waste, and water. All of these support facilities cost money. If they are not used because there are not enough tourists, jobs and money are lost.
　　41．Which of the following do you think has been discussed in the part before this selection？
　　A. It is extremely important to develop tourism. 　B. Building roads and hotels is essential.
　　C. Support facilities are highly necessary. 　　D. Planning is of great importance to tourism.
　　42．The underlined word“ inhabitants” （in Paragraph 1 ） probably means____________.
　　A. tourists 　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. passengers
　　C. population 　　　　　　　　　　　　       D. citizens
　　43．Too much tourism can cause all these problems EXCEPT ____________ .
A. a bad effect on other industries     　B. a change of tourists’ customs
C. over-crowdedness of places of interest　D. pressure on traffic
　　44．It can be inferred from the text that _____________ .
　　A. the author doesn’t like tourism developing so fast
　　B. local people will benefit from tourist attraction
　　C. other parts of a country’s economy won’t benefit from tourism much
　　D. we can't build too many support facilities
　　45．The author thinks it is good for local people to know that tourism will ____________ .
　　A. waste a lot of money                 B. weaken their economy
　　C. help establish their customs             D. help improve their life

第二节信息匹配(共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)
请阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。请在答题卡上将对应题号的相应选项字母涂黑。
以下是六款手机的介绍：
[A]. Nokia-6010
Price: ＄24.99       Color display: Yes            Wireless Internet ready: Yes
Digital camera: No      2-way text messaging: Yes      Talk time: Up to 330 minutes
Standby time: Up to 240 hours     Weight: 5.08 ounces      Dimensions: 4.68”×1.97”×0.90”
Games: Backgammon, Bowling, Air glide, and Sky diver plus downloadable Java games
[B]. Motorola-C650 (Camera phone)
Price: ＄99.99           Color display: Yes                Wireless Internet ready: Yes
Digital camera: Yes        2-way text messaging: Yes     Talk time: Up to 210 minutes
Standby time: Up to 215 hours     Weight: 3.10 ounces      Games: Downloadable games
[C]. Samsung-V1660 on Sprint PCS
Price: Free                    Color display: Yes                Wireless Internet ready: Yes
2-way text messaging: Yes     Talk time: Up to 204 minutes   Standby time: Up to 168 hours
Weight: 3.54 ounces             Memory locations: 200 entry phonebook
[D]. Motorola-SLVR-L7
Price: ＄206.4              Color display: Yes                Wireless Internet ready: Yes
Digital camera: Yes        2-way text messaging: Yes     Talk time: Up to 450 minutes
Standby time: Up to 345 hours     Weight: 3.39 ounces      Dimensions: 4.45”×1.93”×0.45”
Games: Enjoy pre-loaded J2ME games or downloadable games
[E]. Nokia-8010
Price: ＄124.99            Color display: Yes                Wireless Internet ready: Yes
Digital camera: No        2-way text messaging: Yes     Talk time: Up to 330 minutes
Standby time: Up to 240 hours     Weight: 4.08 ounces      Dimensions: 3.68”×1.27”×0.70”
Games: Downloadable games
[F]. Kyocera-SE47 slider on venison wireless
Price: ＄149.99            Color display: Yes                Wireless Internet ready: Yes
Digital camera: No        2-way text messaging: Yes     Talk time: Up to 210 minutes
Standby time: Up to 100 hours     Weight: 3.39 ounces 
Memory locations: 200 entry phonebook
阅读下面信息介绍，选出符合各人需求的最佳款式的手机。
46. Susan is at a middle school. Her parents want to buy her a cheaper cell phone without games installed.
47. Mike intends to buy a phone with longer talk time and standby time and it must not be expensive.
48. Jane is at college. She would like to buy a phone which can slide the face up to make a call, and slide it down when you’re done and it has to be light.
49. George would like to have a cheaper phone with digital camera.
50. Tom only buys Nokia. He lost one and he wants to buy another which is smaller.
购机者                        手机款式
46. Susan                               

50. Tom                                   E. Nokia-8010
F. Kyocera-SE47 slider on venison wireless

Ⅲ 写作(共两节,满分40分)
第一节基础写作(共1小题，满分15分)
鼠标是计算机时代最佳的人机交互工具之一。它极大地方便了人们的计算机操作。但是，过分依赖鼠标的习惯也会带来一些不利影响。请你以鼠标为切入点，根据下表所提示的信息，用英语写一篇短文。
【写作内容】

鼠标的必要性	对多数人来说，操作计算机，上网冲浪……
鼠标的便捷性	点击、移动、插入、拷贝、删除……	* 编辑文本，搜索信息……
* 收发邮件，选购商品……
* 点播音乐，下载电影……
如果过分依赖鼠标…… （请考生结合自身感受，列举两到三点）

【写作要求】
1. 只能使用5个句子表达全部内容。
2．开头已经写好，不计人总词数。
3．作文中不得提及考生所在学校和本人姓名。
The mouse is a most effective device used by people to communicate with a computer．
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[评分标准]句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。

第二节读写任务(共1小题，满分25分)
阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
The First Lesson of the New Term, a TV program about how to protect oneself in times of emergency, is meant to provide school students with the knowledge on self-protection. It will help students in case of natural disasters such as earthquakes, fires, snowstorms or floods. Many examples show that enough knowledge about self-protection along with enough courage and willpower can help many survive.
The most recent example is from the earthquake in Sichuan Province in May of 2008. While thousands of school kids were killed by collapsed school buildings, all students from a middle school survived even without a single one being hurt. That’s because of their timely and orderly evacuations (撤离), which they had been drilled in every term.
It’s good to see this program is the most important activity of a national campaign to make students be aware of personal safety. Chinese Education Ministry has called on all schools nationwide to give lessons on self-protection knowledge in times of emergency every term.
【写作内容】
某中学生英文报就“学生安全教育”为主题举行英语征文活动。你阅读了上述文章后，准备给该报投稿，稿件内容要点包括：
1．以约30个词概括以上短文内容。
2．然后以约120个词谈谈你的观点，并包括以下要点：
(1) 安全教育的重要性；
(2) 举例说明中学生在日常安全方面应该注意的事项；
(3) 呼吁中学生提高安全意识。
【写作要求】
1．在作文中可以使用自己亲身的经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文中的句子；
2．文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。
【评分标准】
概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，篇章连贯。
【思考要点】
How is safety important in our daily life?
What should the students pay attention to in daily life?
How can we raise our awareness of safety?
【可能用到的词汇或句型】
the importance of personal safety;  the most valuable; nothing is more important than…;  life is fragile; treasure life; raise the awareness of safety; self-protection; obey traffic rules; first-aid knowledge; gain more knowledge about…; use sth. with care; be careful about; think twice before doing …
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