高三备考英语模拟测试卷【广东版】8

There is one word that is on the lips of Americans , day and night -"Sorry."
Once as I was walling on the street, a young man ran by      ,brushing against my handbag. Even as he continued on his .way, he       back and said "sorry" to me. Even in a rush, he didn't forget to apologize.
One day, after I bought some apples, the salesman was giving me the change, but I wasn't ready for it And a        dropped on the ground. "I'm sorry," he said while bending down to pick it up. I was      -why would he apologize when it was my         .
Another time ,I stepped          a man's foot in a lift At the same time, we both said "sorry"．I thought it interesting at first - was it really        for him to apologize?
Later on, an American friend           o me that according to the American ideas, the lift is a           place everyone should be able to stand in. After someone occupies a position in the lift, making it          for someone else to find a place to stand in ,isn't it necessary to       an apologize?
During my stay in America ,I gradually        that when friction（摩擦）happen in daily life, Americans don't care much about who is responsible.         Someone is troubled, a "sorry" is always necessary. The "sorry” would cool tempers       the other person is hurt. Perhaps this is why I      saw anyone quarreling on the buses, subways or street in America.

A．excitedly B．hurriedly C．happily D．hopefully

A．drove B．held C．watched D．turned

A．coin B．handbag C．wallet D．bill.

A．impressed B．moved C．annoyed D．puzzled

A．duty B．attitude C．fault D．business

A．over B．on C．in D．at

A．necessary B．important C．surprising D．polite

A．lied B．explained C．pointed D．admitted

A．crowded B．common C．public D．free

A．unfit B．impossible C．narrow D．difficult

A．express B．receive C．expect D．tell

A．realized B．remembered C．agreed D．meant

A．Although B．What C．Unless D．If

A．as if B．even if C．as soon as D．before

A．always B．often C．never D．sometimes

It was a dreadfully cold and cloudy afternoon. I was on the bus with my children, aged four and two, heading home when it started to rain. I realized this would mean a wet walk home             the bus stop.
 my house was merely two blocks away, it was not a pleasant walk with one small boy asleep in the pram (手推婴儿车), the other one in a raincoat and no umbrella for myself. A pick-up truck passed us on the road. I tried to thumb a ride but failed. My little boy woke up with a start and began to cry. I     (convince) that things might become worse and nobody would bother to help on such a terrible day.
A few minutes later,     truck drove by, but to my surprise, I saw it   (pull) back and the driver looking directly at us.
A young man put the window down. “Hey, here’s an umbrella for you, please take    .” He called out.
I stood there     (astonish), barely believing that the man    existence was unknown to me only moments ago, could be so    (consider). “Come on, give this to your mummy,” he said to my older son. I accepted the offer and expressed my gratitude to him.
This man might have needed the umbrella for himself later during the day but preferred to give it to me. It was a lesson to me     it’s possible to give without expecting anything in return.

【改编】In the fall of 1985, I was a bright eyed girl heading off to Howard University, aiming at a legal career and dreaming of sitting on a Supreme Court bench somewhere. Twenty one years later I am still a bright eyed dreamer and one with quite a different tale to tell.
My grandma, an amazing woman, graduated from college at the age of 65.She was the first in our family to reach that goal. But one year after I started college, she developed cancer. I made the choice to withdraw from college to care for her. It meant that school and my personal dream would have to wait.
Then I got married with another dream: building my family with a combination of adopted and biological children. In 1999, we adopted our first son. To lay eyes on him was fantastic—and very emotional. A year later came our second adopted boy. Then followed son No.3.In 2003, I gave birth to another boy.
You can imagine how fully occupied I became, raising four boys under the age of 8！Our home was a complete zoo—a joyous zoo. Not surprising, I never did make it back to college fulltime. But I never gave up on the dream either. I had only one choice: to find a way. That meant taking as few as one class each semester.
The hardest part was feeling guilty about the time I spent away from the boys. They often wanted me to stay home with them. There certainly were times I wanted to quit, but I knew I should set an example for them to follow through the rest of their lives.
In 2007, I graduated from the University of North Carolina. It took me over 21 years to get my college degree!
I am not special, just single minded. It always struck me that when you're looking at a big challenge from the outside it looks huge, but when you're in the midst of it, it just seems normal. Everything you want won't arrive in your life on one day. It's a process. Remember: little steps add up to big dreams.
How did the writer develop the passage?

How did the author feel when she had to leave home to study?

What is the meaning of the underlined word” withdraw”?

Which word can be used to described the author?

What can we learn from this story?

Do you know the open-air art gallery in London's Blackall Street? Probably -not. Not many  Londoners know it either, but Henri does and he is willing to show it to you.
Henri used to sleep in parks until he met a charity(慈善机构) that helps homeless people get  back on their feet by becoming tour guides.
Rather than show traditional London sights, “Unseen Tours" take people off the beaten track. Henri has been teaching tourists about the history and architecture of Shoreditch, where he slept on public benches for three years.
When he felt separated from the society, contact with the volunteer network "The Sock Mob" gave Henri hope. "Not everyone just looked down on me," he said. The tours aren't the only actions trying to help those who have suffered a misfortune to stand tall again.
An innovative(创新的) college for homeless people in London, the first of its kind in the country, is attracting hundreds of students. The Recovery College, set up by St Mungo's charity, is providing courses designed to improve technical skills and life skills.
According to Andy Williams, who helps to organize the college, the most popular courses have proved to be about raising self-confidence and developing self-pride.
Steve, now in his 50s, told a reporter how much of a difference it makes to "have a bit of confidence". He had difficulty learning to read and had to leave school when he was 12. Because Steve's problem was not recognized at the time, he was "seen to be unable to read or write", and suffered with depression and alcohol addiction. He says the status of "student" is itself important for people who are used to being treated as outcasts（被遗弃者）
Some charities aim not only to help the homeless become independent but also to make them popular. The Homeless World Cup started ten years ago. Today the tournament draws teams from 48 countries made up of players-men and women-who are, or have been, living in the streets.  It gives them a chance to become football heroes.
The underlined part "take people off the beaten track" means "take people to______.”

How does the Recovery College help the homeless people?

At the age of 12, Steve _______ .

The purpose of the Homeless World Cup is to help the homeless people _______.

Which is the best title for the passage?

【原创】The spread of Western eating habits around the world is bad for human health and the environment. Those findings come from a new report in the journal Nature.
There are ways to solve this diet-health-environment problem. But they will require a change in eating habits. And what we eat can be a product of culture, personal taste, price and ease.
David Tilman , a professor of ecology, examined information from 100 countries to identify what people ate and how diet affected health and found as nations industrialized, population increased and earnings rose, more people began to adopt what has been called the Western diet.
The Western diet is high in refined or processed sugar, fat, oil and meat. By eating these foods, people began to get fatter -- and sicker.
David Tillman says overweight people are at greater risk for non-infectious diseases like diabetes, heart disease and some cancers.
Unfortunately when people become industrialized, if they adopt this Western diet, they are going to have these same health impacts, and in some cases if you are Asian, you have them more seriously than what happens in the West."
China, he says, is an example where the number of diabetes cases has jumped. And that’s happening all across the world, in Mexico, Nigeria and so on.
A diet bad for human beings is also bad for the environment. As the world's population grows, experts say more forests will become farmland for crops or grasslands for grazing cattle.
"We are likely to have more greenhouse gas released in the future from agriculture because of this dietary shift than all the greenhouse gas that comes out of cars, airplanes, boats and ships. So our change in diet is likely to be worse for the world for climate warming than all the transportation sources we use right now."
He says one possible solution is leaving the Western diet behind.
What is the main idea of the passage?

Why do more and more people eat Western diet?

According to the passage, what is good for our environment?

In which section of a newspaper can you find this passage?

Which statement is true?

【改编】Can you believe everything that you read? It seems as if every day, some new articles come out about a new discovery about this or that. For example, water is bad for you, or good for you. The answer depends on which scientific study has just come out. People cannot decide which food items are healthy, how pyramids were constructed, and why dinosaurs disappeared. When we look for answers we sometimes can believe persuasive researches and scientists. But how trustworthy are they really? Here are two examples of scientific hoaxes.
As far back as 1726, Johann Beringer was fooled by his fellow scientists into thinking he had made an amazing discovery. The fossils of spiders, lizards, and even birds with the name of God written on them in Hebrew were unlike anything that had been found before. He wrote several papers on them and was famous for those only to have it revealed that they were planted by jealous colleagues to ruin his reputation.
When an early human being was discovered in 1912, scientists at this time were wild with excitement over the meaning it had for the theory of evolution. There were hundreds of papers about this Piltdown man over the next fifty years until it was finally discovered to be a complex hoax. The skull (头骨) of a man had been mixed with the jawbone of an orangutan (猩猩) to make the ape (猿) man.
The next time you read the exciting new findings of a study of the best scientist, do not automatically assume that it is true. Even qualified people can get it wrong. While we certainly should not ignore scientific research, we do need to take it with a grain of salt. Just because it is accepted as the truth today does not mean it will still be trustworthy tomorrow.
What is the main idea of the passage?

What does the underlined word “ hoaxes” mean?

From the second paragraph we can know______.

According to the passage ,the discovery of Piltdown man______.

From the last paragraph we can infer the author thinks_____.

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。
首先请阅读下列社会研究报告的文章标题及插图：

A		Simple Way to Boost Marital Happiness? Say ‘Thank You’. ‘Thank You’goes a long way to keeping couples happy．
B		Dads Struggle to Find Work—Life Balance Working dads say work—life balance is hard to find．
C		What Workers Want From Their Bosses．．．Besides Money Money isn’t everything，and they need recognition as well．
D		Bosses Say It Is, Indeed，Lonely at the Top CEOs of public firms say they feel especially isolated．
E		Americans Say They are Healthy, But Not Wealthy Americans are evaluating the health of their personal finances with the same rigor as they do their physical health．
F		Higher Housework Burden Stresses Women Unequal employment and pay add to mom’s stressors，because they make her feel the need to do more housework．

 
下面是这些研究报告的主要内容。请把相关的内容与它们的标题匹配起来。
Work appears to be taking its toll on the relationship between dads and their families, a new study finds. CareerBuilder’s annual Father’s Day survey found that 22 percent of fathers say their work has negatively affected relationships with their children, while 26 percent believe their job has hurt relationships with significant others．
U．S．workers are looking for a little pat on the back，according to a new study．The latest Globoforce Workforce Mood Tracker revealed that more than half of employees would leave their current job to go work for a company that recognized their efforts. The research shows a direct correlation between recognition and retention．
It’s lonely at tile top, and CEOs know that better than anyone, according to a new poll．While being a CEO may come with prestige and financial benefits．a study by RHR International, a global executive talent development firm, revealed that the high, ranking position is often accompanied by isolation．
While women are doing less housework than they used to. they still take on the brunt of the household cleaning chores. New research indicates that this extra work stresses them out，and that stress worsens when there is salary or gender inequality present in the relationship. Though both men and women spend less time spent on domestic duties, women still take on a large amount of the work, studies show．
Saying “thank you” may be a simple way to boost marital happiness，new research suggests. This cycle of appreciation may also make for longer-lasting relationships.” Feeing appreciated by your partner influences how you act in your relationship, and how much you want to stay in that relationship,”study researcher told Live Science．

假如你校要举办一次主题为“How to communicate with friends”的英语演讲比赛，请你用英语写一篇演讲稿。要点如下：
尊重并信任朋友，作为回报，他们也会信赖你。
常与朋友聊天，增强相互了解。
换位思考问题，体会别人所想，找出合适的交流方式。
诚恳与体贴在沟通中非常重要。
注意：
1．词数：100字左右；
2．可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3．参考词汇：
换位思考 put oneself in sb’s shoes   consideration 考虑周到，体贴
作为回报  in return
[写作要求]
1．只能使用5个句子表达全部内容；
2．文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。
[评分标准]
句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。
Hello, everyone, I’d like to share my ideas about the topic of communicating with our  friends.
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请阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
Many people believe that in the future computers will be used in lots of everyday activities .It is thought that we won’t go shopping because many goods are available on the Internet .There will be no more books because all books will be available from electronic libraries .The Internet will be used to book holidays, rent films and order food.  Most telephone calls will be made over the Internet as well .Some people are excited about these new developments .Others , however, do not think that computers will replace our present ways of shopping and communicating .
Is Internet shopping as much fun as traditional shopping ? Many people say it is not .It is fun to go into shops and look as good in person . It is also unlikely that many people will want to read large texts on our computers because paper books will possibly be more user- friendly .Maybe , computers won’t change these habits.
【写作内容】
1．以约30个词概括这段短文的内容；
2．然后以约120个词表达你对“网上购物”这一现象的观点。内容包括：
（1）叙述你身边的同学对网上购物的看法。
（2）你喜欢的购物方式（传统的购物方式还是网上购物）?
（3）结合自己的生活例子说明你喜欢的理由。
【写作要求】
1.作文中可使用自己的亲身经历或虚构的故事，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.作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。