湖北天门市高考模拟英语试卷（三）

Customers will receive a free CD as a(n)  _______ with any order over 200 Yuan in this store .

Tom accumulated a grate deal of knowledge about plants and agriculture in growing strawberries, he went back to the abandoned          of spreading straw under the fruit to reduce the necessary amount of watering.

The store has an excellent         for fair dealing and its booming sales figures are often reported in local newspapers.
A. regulation          B reputation          C. presentation        D. exception

For fear of unemployment, almost one million people sat （参加考试）China civil service examination in order to get  ________jobs.

The USA makes a lot of excuses in an attempt to make war on Iran , however, Its __________ purpose lies in the abundant oil there.

Nowadays food safety is a big problem and nobody can guarantee all foods are safe to us, but food produced in the normal companies is _______ better.

British wartime prime minister Winston Churchill  ____ the reporting for 50 years of an UFO incident because of fears it could create mass panic.

Their efforts finally          when the New York Time picked the group as one of the top 10 bands of the year.

The accident produced a very bad impact on the society, so those who _________ the project were severely punished.

Shoppers are also less likely to queue for long if the item they are buying is of low value, and ____ food and drink shopkeepers are having to find new ways to deliver good customer service.

阅读下面两篇短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I remember the exact moment I learned the principle of preparing for luck.
I was on the wrestling team. Now, if there’s one thing I can tell you about any sport, it is that wrestling is probably the sport that has the least   31  .There are only two people out on the mat, so you cannot   32  it on your teammates or your coach. And guess what? There is no   33    because we do the whole thing indoors, so you can’t say, “It was raining” or “It was snowing.” It makes   34  to say wrestling is the sport with the least luck.
On our team were two world champions; one of them had been a world champion five times. We   35  had five people who were national champions. One of them was a guy   36  the name of John.
John had never been   37  in any high school wrestling competition that I could remember, 38  he was a national champion. There was nobody locally who could touch him.
One day, we   39  a match with our biggest opponent(对手). John went out on the mat, and about a minute and 30 seconds into the match he tried to make a particular   40  He rolled over, and his opponent  41  him halfway through his roll. He waspinned(压住) 42 !
The match was over.
I remember on the way home, one of our teammates tried to  43  John by saying, “Oh, he just got lucky.” John said, “That’s so stupid. The 44  presented itself, and he just took advantage of it.”
We used to have this big   45  in our wrestling room that the coach had put there: “Luck is what happens when opportunity meets   46 .”
John’s opponent was prepared to make use of this opportunity. The possibility of beating John was not   47  and he knew it. But he waited for the  48   opportunity to present itself, and he defeated and pinned a five-time national champion.
In other words, the real  49  is “Be prepared!” It’s not just finding the opportunity; you have to be prepared to   50  it.
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A．luck B．risk C．difficulty D．opportunity

A．accuse B．blame C．doubt D．keep

A．stress B．injury C．change D．weather

A．reason B．sure C．safe D．sense

A．also B．even C．too D．once

A．under B．for C．in D．by

A．hurt B．met C．trained D．defeated

A．although B．as C．yet D．until

A．went for B．waited for C．fought for D．played for

A．act B．step C．task D．move

A．fixed B．threw C．caught D．carried

A．accidentally B．fortunately C．unfairly D．immediately

A．control B．comfort C．convince D．forgive

A．success B．moment C．opportunity D．situation

A．warning B．sign C．sentence D．note

A．occasion B．challenge C．time D．preparation

A．obvious B．strong C．little D．slight

A．equal B．exact C．rest D．right

A．message B．theme C．key D．suggestion

A．receive B．follow C．seize D．save

The wedding between Prince Wiliam and Kate Middleton on April 29 has focused the world’s camera lenses (镜头) on the UK.
In Britain, there is a constant debate about the relevance(相关性) of the royal family to modern British society. However, Windsor (the family name of the British Royal Family) and Middleton have been seen to represent a more modern, forward-looking nation.
Nigel Baker, the British ambassador to Bolivia, believes that the royal wedding is “about modern Britain”. “The estimated 2 billion spectators across the world will see that Britain is one of the most culturally and ethnically diverse nations in the world, home to 270 nationalities speaking 300 different languages, founded on tolerance and respect for difference,” wrote Baker on his blog.
According to Baker, the wedding could help viewers to see “why Britain is one of the most dynamic and creative countries in the world”: The television on which most people watched the event was invented by John Logie Baird, a Briton, and the World Wide Web that broadcast the event to millions more was invented by another Briton, Tim Berners-Lee.
The guests who attended the wedding ceremony gave more than a few clues as to the nature of modern Britain. David and Victoria Beckham represent Britain’s obsession (着迷)with football and celebrity.
Leaders from different religious backgrounds supported Baker’s comments on the multicultural nature of modern British society.
Before the wedding, David Elliott, arts director of the British Council China, agreed that the wedding would be a showcase for modern Britain: “I think, and hope, that it (modern British influence) would be values like openness, multiculturalism, creativity, sense of humor and the traditional British sense of fair play,” he said.
Furthermore, events such as the Olympics in London in 2012 may also increase people’s sense of Britishness.
According to a poll published in Daily Telegraph, more than a third of people in the UK admitted they felt “very British” when watching the Olympics.
.  What is the point of the article?

.  What can be concluded from the article?
A. Some say that the royal wedding is a reflection on modern Britain.
B Some think the royal wedding shows Britain’s multiculturalism and sense of fair play.
C.About 2 billion people across the world will see the wedding ceremony online.
D. Britons are obsessed with football due to the influence of David Beckham.
.  Why is the inventor of the World Wide Web mentioned?
A. To inform readers about some well-known British inventors.
B. To point to the importance of the World Wide Web for the wedding.
C. In support of the idea that Britain is a nation of creative and original people.
D. To encourage people to watch the wedding on the Internet.
.  According to the article, both the 2012 Olympics and the royal wedding         .

With large and small keyboards everywhere, neither children nor adults need to write much of anything by hand. That’s a big problem. Study after study suggests that handwriting is important for brain development — helping kids get fine motor skills and learn to express and create ideas. Yet the time devoted to teaching penmanship in most schools has shrunk to just one hour a week. Is it time to give up handwriting? Have a look at the link between the brain and penmanship, and you may get the answer.
A test among students in grades 2, 4 and 6 found that they not only wrote faster by hand than by keyboard, but also created more ideas when composing essays with handwriting. And other research shows that the finger movements required to write by hand activate brain areas involved with thought, language, and short-term memory.
A recent Indiana University study had one group of children practice writing letters by hand while a second group just looked at those letters. Then, both groups of kids entered a functional MRI (核磁共振)that scanned their brains as the researchers showed them the same letters. Researchers found that the brain activity in the first group was far more advanced and “adult-like”.
Handwriting also affects other people’s way they think of adults and children. Several studies have shown that the same average essay will score much higher if written with good penmanship and much lower if written out in poor handwriting. These studies have also found that people judge the quality of a person’s ideas based on his or her handwriting. And the consequences are real: On standardized tests with handwritten sections, like the SAT, all essay that is considered hard to recognize gets a big zero.
Studies show that this isn’t only an English-language phenomenon. Chinese and Japanese youths are suffering from “character amnesia”. They can’t remember how to write characters, thanks to computers and text messaging. Some experts fear that Chinese writing and reading are so closely linked in the brain that China’s reading ability as a nation could suffer.
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What does the Indiana University study imply?

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What does the 4th paragraph mainly talk about?

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Which of the following statements is TRUE?

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The passage tries to tell us that __________________.

There were red faces at one of Britain’s biggest banks recently. They had accepted a telephone order to buy ￡100,000 worth of shares from a 15-year-old schoolboy (they thought he was 21). The shares fell in value and the schoolboy was unable to pay up. The bank lost ￡20,000 on the deal which it cannot get back, because, for one thing, the young boy does not have the money, for another, being under 18, he is not legally liable for his debts. If the shares had risen in value by the same amount that they fell, he would have pocketed ￡20,000 profit. It certainly is better than delivering the morning newspaper. In another case, a boy of 14 found, in his grandmother’s house, a suitcase full of foreign banknotes. But they were now not used in their country of origin or anywhere else. This young boy headed straight to the nearest bank with his pockets filled with notes. The cashiers did not realize the country in question had reduced the value of its currency by 90%. They exchanged the notes at their face value at the current exchange rate. In three days, before he was found out, he took ￡200,000 from nine different banks. Amazingly, he had already spent more than half of this before the police caught up with him. Because he is also under 18 the banks have kissed goodbye to a lot of money, and several cashiers have lost their jobs.
Should we admire these youngsters for being enterprising and showing initiative or condemn them for their dishonesty? Maybe they had managed for years with tiny amounts of pocket money that they got from tight-fisted parents. Maybe they had done Saturday jobs for peanuts. It is hardly surprising, given the expensive things that young people want to buy, such as fashionable running shoes and computer games, if they sometimes think up more imaginative ways of making money than delivering newspapers. These youngsters saw the chance to make a lot of money and took it.
Another recent story which should give us food for thought is the case of the man who paid his six-year-old daughter￡300 a week pocket money. He then charged her for the food she ate a few coins for her piggy bank（存钱灌）“She will soon learn the value of money, ” he said. “There’s no such thing as a free lunch. Everything has to be paid for and the sooner she learns that the better.” At the other extreme there are fond parents who provide free bed and board for their grown-up children, While even the most hard-hearted parents might hesitate to throw their children out on the streets, we all know of people in their twenties who still shamelessly live off their parents. Surely there comes a time when everyone has to leave the parental nest, look after themselves and pay their own way in life. But when is it?
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Recently one of Britain’s biggest banks _____.

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. The author’s attitude to the example of the two boys who cheated the banks is _____.

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The man paid his daughter ￡300 a week pocket money and then required her to pay for her living expenses because _____.

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It can be concluded from the passage that the author believes that _____.

A few years ago I was on a bicycle trip when I got off my bike for a rest. I sat down on the grass. A few seconds later, I was covered in ants. They were swarming all over me so I got up and brushed them off. It was a strange experience but I soon forgot about it.
A couple of years later, I was living in Jordan. I had just moved into a modern flat and was unpacking plates when I saw something move out of the corner of my eye. I looked over at the kitchen drawer and there was a cockroach(蟑螂)crawling out of it. I screamed. Then I grabbed a can of insecticide and sprayed it on the cockroach. He ran under the nearby bathroom door. It took me three days before I found the courage to open the bathroom door to see if he was still alive. He wasn’t.
Why did I react so violently to one lone insect when a closer encounter with hundreds of ants hardly affected me? The answer is easy: because cockroaches are creepy(令人毛骨悚然的) crawlies and ants aren’t. Creepy crawlies are those little bugs which cause feelings such as anxiety - they make your skin crawl.
Did you know that some people feel such a fear of bugs that it becomes a phobia(恐惧症)? Psychologists have offered many explanations. Some say we associate them with dirt and disease. Or that these are life forms that are so alien to us, that we find them disgusting for their dissimilarity.
Insects, however, don’t follow our rules - they just do what they want and invade our space. Unfortunately, although insects and bugs have been a successful animal species up to now, many of them, like many other species nowadays, are under threat of dying out. Entomologistswarn that this could upset entire ecosystems and lead to all kinds of disastrous consequences.
So my advice to you is: the next time you feel the urge to stamp on, splatter or spray a creepy crawly, give a thought to the planet and stop.
.. Why did the author mention the ants in the beginning?

. The underlined word “insecticide” in Paragraph 2 probably means         .

. How does the author feel about bugs like cockroaches?

. Which of the following statements about bugs is NOT true according to the passage?

Dreaming is believing, claim researchers of a new study, who found that dreams have an effect on people’s behavior, judgment and they might contain important hidden truths as well.
“Psychologists’ explanations of the meaning of dreams vary widely. But our findings show that people believe their dreams provide meaningful insightinto themselves and their world,” said a lead author of the study Carey Morewedge, an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
In six different studies, researchers surveyed nearly 1,100 people about their dreams. One of the studies focused on general beliefs about dreams and involved 149 university students. All students were asked to rate different theories about dreams. The experts found that a surprising majority of the participants supported the theory about dreams revealing(揭示) the hidden truths about themselves and the rest of the world.
In a second experiment, they surveyed 182 people at a Boston train station, and asked them to imagine one out of four possible situation that could have occurred the night before a scheduled airline trip. Most of the participants said that dreaming of a plane crash would be more likely to affect their travel plans than would just thinking about a crash, or being warned by the government of a terrorism risk. They said a dreamed crash would influence their travel plans just as much as learning about a real crash on their planned route would.
Another experiment involved 270 men and women from across the United States. In a short online survey, they were asked to recall one of the dreams they had seen about any person they knew.
The findings showed that people were more likely to remember and describe pleasant dreams about a person they liked, rather than a person they disliked. Meanwhile, in most cases they tended to consider an unpleasant dream as more meaningful if it was about a person they disliked.
“In other words,” said Morewedge, “people attribute meaning to dreams when it corresponds (与……一致) with their pre-existing beliefs and desires.”
The researchers say that more investigation is needed to fully understand how people interpret their dreams. According to Morewedge, most people realize that dreams are not predicting their future, but they still try to find some meaning in there.
. The purpose of the studies is to         .

According to the second experiment, what might influence people’s travel plans most?

. What can be concluded from the study?

. Which kind of dream is seen as more meaningful than the rest?

阅读下列各小题，根据括号内的汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子，并将答案写在答题卡上的相应题号后。
We should encourage children to read classics, most of which                       （很有益处）to the growth of our children.(benefit)
I like these blue jacket very much; it costs______________________（三倍）the one hanging in the window. （as）.
They say the accident happened because the carelessness of the driver, but in my opinion, it is the cyclist rather than the driver _____________________（应负责任）.（blame）
_____________________ (一旦被发现偷东西)in the supermarket, any salesperson will be fired at once. (once)
Project Hope aims at helping more children in poor areas to          _  (有受教育的机会 ) .  (access，receive)
Never        （我碰到过）such a person. with a talent for songwriting in the past ten years.(come)
. If you were cast away on a deserted island,              （你会怎么办）？ （do）
The headmaster left word with my parents                (他要来拜访)next Sunday . (pay)
After the war, a new school building was put up___________________________ (在曾经是一家剧院的地方). (where)
The officials were discussing the plan that they would like to see                (实现) the next year . (carry)

你叫李浩，你美国的笔友Jack在网上发现这样一幅漫画，他写信询问你这幅漫画的意思。请你用英文给Jack写封信，解释一下这幅漫画反映的社会现象。内容要点包括：
1．据报道70%的火锅店都向火锅里添加化学添加剂；
2．火锅店这样做的目的是降低成本、节约时间，让火锅更诱人；
3．向火锅里添加化学物质对人体的危害；
4．如何解决这一危害大众健康的问题。
注意：
1．参考词汇：漫画cartoon;火锅hotpot;化学添加剂chemical addictives;食品安全food safety
2．可根据内容要点适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
3．词数100左右，信的开头、结尾和格式已给出。
Dear Jack,
I’m glad to hear from you again.                                                 .
It is a great pity that I may not be able to treat you to a delicious hotpot when you come to visit me in China one day, isn’t it?