常州高考英语真题2017

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　　常州高考英语真题2017

　　II. Grammar and Vocabulary

　　Section A

　　Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

　　In two days , it will be Christmas, children all over world (21) ________(look) forward to this day for weeks. People celebrate Christmas with food, decorations, music and more. But for many people , gift-giving is the most exciting part of the holiday.

　　I have fond memories of Christmas shopping with my family as a child. I enjoyed the challenge of keeping my parents’ gifts a secret. It was hard to buy gifts right.(22)______their noses without them seeing. Everyone placed(23)__________(wrap) gifts under the Christmas tree until Christmas morning, (24)________we opened them.

　　Picking a great gift require (25)________(know) the person you’re giving it to. You need to know the person’s tastes and find something the person doesn’t already have. This can be quite a big challenge . Often it’s wise to provide a receipt (26)______ _________the person needs to exchange the gift.

　　The best gifts are personal . Many Americans don’t feel money constitutes a good gift(27)_______it doesn’t require any thought. They prefer something chosen just for the person. If the gift is a high-quality homemade gift, that’s even better.

　　Gift-giving reflects the reason(28)______ people celebrate Christmas. Christians in particular remember the birth of Jesus. When he was born, wise men traveled many miles to visit him, (29)________(bring) expensive gifts. But the greatest gift wasn’t from the wise man, but from God-----the baby Jesus. God gave this gift because everyone needed it. We needed God to forgive our bad actions so that we (30)______ live forever with him. So on Christmas we give presents to imitate God’s action of giving the perfect gift.

　　Section B

　　Directions: Fill each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

　　A. dominance B. lifts C. divided D. assumes E. urged F. military

　　G. suspend H. guidance I. violently J. claimed K. illegally

　　Donald Trump ___31___ his place as the United States 45th president after crossing the 270 electoral vote threshold(门槛) on November 9. The 70-year-old Republican will take over from Barack Obama, a two-term president to occupy with White House.

　　The rise of Trump , a celebrity businessman with no previous experience in the ___32___ or elected office, surprised nearly everyone in politics. Trump’s victory over Clinton will end eight years of Democratic ___33___of the White House. He will govern with Congress fully under Republican control and lead a country deeply ___34__ by his campaign against Clinton. Given the numerous Republicans who never backed him , Trump will have to face divisions within his own party, too.

　　As he claimed victory, Trump ___35___ Americans to “ come together as one united people.” “I pledge to every citizen of our land that I will be president for all Americans ,” he said in his victory speech . Striking a gentle tone, Trump continued that he would teach out to a few of those who had chosen not to support him for ___36___and help so that “ we can work together and unify our great country.”

　　As president, Trump’s governing agenda remains unclear. The president elect has promised to bring changes to the United States. He said he would build a wall along the U.S-Mexio border to stop immigrants from coming into the country___37___.___38___ immigration from countries with ties to terrorist groups, and bargain with foreign governments such as those of Russia and China. Trump has also promised to prioritize the economic growth that creates jobs and ___39___incomes for all Americans.

　　Trump is a wild card, many voters said, but he definitely has a chance to be a successful president as long as he recognizes the responsibilities he ___40__and follows through on his promises.

　　III. Reading Comprehension

　　Section A

　　Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.

　　Security guard, truck driver, salesperson—year after year, these jobs appear on lists of the unhappiest careers. Although many factors can make a job ___41___ --unusual hours, low pay, no chance for advancement—these three jobs ___42___ for another reason: a lack of small talk.

　　Psychologists have long said that connecting with others is central to our well-being, but just how much conversation we require is under ___43___. In one study, researchers overheard undergraduates for four days and then ___44___ each conversations either “small talk” (“What do you have there? Pop corn? Yummy!”) or “serious” (“Did they break up soon after?”). They found that the second type is connected with happiness—the happiest students had roughly twice as many “serious” talks as the unhappiest ones. Small talk, meanwhile, ___45___ only ten percent of their conversation, versus almost 30 percent of conversation among the unhappiest students.

　　However, don’t just consider small talk ___46___ yet. Scientists believe that small talk could promote bonding. Chatting with strangers could ___47___ our morning. In a series of experiments, psychologists found that those who chatted with other train passengers reported a more pleasant journey than those who didn’t.

　　Small talk can also help us feel connecter to our ___48___. People who smiled at, made eye contact with and ___49___ spoke with their Starbucks baristas (咖啡师) reported a greater sense of ___50___ than those who rushed through the transaction(交易). ___51___, when volunteers broke the silence of the art gallery to chat with gallery-goers, the visitors felt happier and more connected to the exhibit than those who were not ___52___.

　　Of course, some of us are better than others at turning small talk into something bigger. In one study, people who were rated “less curious” by researchers had trouble getting a conversation ___53___ on their own. People who were considered “curious”, meanwhile, needed no help ___54___ conversations about ordinary things like favorite holidays into friendly exchanges. A “curious mindset,” the researchers concluded, can lead to “positive social ___55___.”

　　Therefore, go ahead—small talk needn’t be idle, and nosiness isn’t all bad.

　　41. A. rewarding B. depressing C. exhausting D. challenging

　　42. A. stand out B. turn up C. give off D. put forward

　　43. A. negotiation B. construction C. investigation D. examination

　　44. A. divided B. entitled C. imposed D. cataloged

　　45. A. figured out B. made up C. look over D. added to

　　46. A. worthless B. essential C. boring D. ridiculous

　　47. A. occupy B. satisfy C. brighten D. spoil

　　48. A. emotions B. heart C. customers D. surroundings

　　49. A. purposefully B. briefly C. continuously D. generally

　　50. A. responsibility B. security C. belonging D. achievement

　　51. Consequently B. Oppositely C. Unexpectedly D. Similarly

　　52. A. approached B. attached C. addressed D. attended

　　53. A. breaking B. pausing C. rolling D. stopping

　　54. A. evolving B. substituting C. adapting D. transforming

　　55. A. interaction B. standard C. impact D. involvement

　　Section B

　　Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.

　　(A)

　　Dear Alcohol,

　　You’ve been around forever, I can remember all the pain you’ve caused me.

　　Do you remember the night you almost took my father’s life? I do. He loves you. Sometimes I think he loves you more than he loves me. He’s addicted to you, to the way you promise to rid him of his problems only to cause more of them. You just sat back and laughed as his car went spinning through the street, crashing into two other cars. He wasn’t the only one hurt by you that night.

　　Do you remember the night of my first high school party? You were there. My friends were intrigued by you. They treated you as if they were never going to see you again, drinking all of you that they could. I spent two hours that night helping my friends who had fallen completely. “I’m so embarrassed,” they said as I held their hair back so that they could vomit. “I’m sorry,” they said when I called taxies for them, walking them out and paying the driver in advance. “This won’t happen again,” they said as they were sent to the hospital to have their stomachs pumped. Two 15-year-old girls slept in hospital beds that night thanks to you.

　　Do you remember the night when you took advantage of my 17-year-old neighbor who had to drive to pick up his sister from her dance lessons? Do you know how we all felt when he hit another car and killed the two people in the other car? He died the next morning too. His sister walked home from her dance lesson, and passed police cars and a crowd of people gathering on the sidewalk just two blocks away from the dance studio. She didn’t realize her brother was in the midst of it all. She never saw him again. And it’s all your fault.

　　I wish you’d walk out of my life forever. I don’t want anything to do with you. Look at all the pain you’ve caused. Sure, you’ve made people happy too from time to time. But the damage you’ve caused in the lives of millions is inexcusable. Stop luring(引诱)in the people I love. Stop hurting me, please.

　　Sincerely,

　　Anonymous

　　56. What did alcohol do to the author’s father?

　　A. It took his life away one night.

　　B. It helped to get rid of his problems.

　　C. It pushed him to hurt others when driving.

　　D. It got him seriously injured in a car accident.

　　57. The underlined words “were intrigued by” in paragraph 3 are closest in meaning to ______.

　　A. were familiar with B. were curious about

　　C. were disappointed at D. were fed up with

　　58. Which of the statements is TRUE about the author’s neighbor or his sister?

　　A. He drove to pickup his drunken sister.

　　B. His sister was to blame for the car accident.

　　C. He crashed into a car from the other direction.

　　D. His sister was too scared to look at the scene of the accident.

　　59. What is the tone of the article?

　　A. Humorous B. Doubtful

　　C. indifferent D. Critical

　　(B)

　　60. The total capacity for the public forum on nee and joint pain is ______ people.

　　A. 5 B. 20 C. 50 D. 100

　　61. Mr Li, a marathon runner, has an irreparable slip disc(椎间盘突出).Which hospital should he go to if he does not want to undergo any operation?

　　A. Mt Elizabeth Hospital B. Gleneagles Hospital

　　C. Changi General Hospital D. Singapore General Hospital

　　62. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

　　A. Any Singaporean can attend Dr Tan’s talk free-of-charge.

　　B. Participants of public forum can get a book $20 cheaper.

　　C. People “like” the Mind Your Body Facebook page can win a prize.

　　D. People can book the Bone Density Scan on Feb 4th at a special price.

　　(C)

　　China’s domestically developed, long-acting experimental AIDS drug is undergoing a final review by the China Food and Drug Administration, the last stage in the approval process.

　　Different from traditional oral drugs that require daily use, but it’s a heavy burden for patients to take medicine every day for years. As a result, long-acting drugs are the future direction in developing innovative AIDS medicine. For Chinese patients, the number of oral drugs available in the domestic market is very limited, so there is an urgent need for drugs to solve the problem of drug resistance.

　　Zhao Yan, a treatment specialist at the National Center for AIDS said seven or eight oral drugs for AIDS are currently provided to patients for free. “The injection solution could give an alternative to patients … if it could be included in the country’s health insurance system,” she said.

　　“Now very few patients are using drugs from the health insurance system, both because no differentiated drugs are provided and because the procedure is more complex and could harm their privacy,” she said. “New drugs will be broadly used only if the system can embrace more varieties of drugs.”

　　Albuvirtide went into the research and development stage in 2002 and entered phase three of clinical trials—a step to assure safety and effectiveness before market approval—in 2014. Phase three is the last round of clinical trials for new drug tests in China. If the drug can pass the reviews of the country’s drug watchdog, usually at least two rounds, it can then enter the market. The time needed for the review ranges from months to years.

　　Clinical trials showed that the new drug performs even better than the oral drugs being used. Most of the oral drugs for AIDS being used in China are generic drugs developed in the 1970s and ‘80s that are not so efficient. In terms of safety and effectiveness, evidence so far showed that Albuvirtide is better than most second-line drugs—drugs used when first-line standard drugs fail—in developed countries because of lower toxicity(毒性)and fewer side effects.

　　Worldwide, a number of long-acting AIDS drug are in development. None has been approved for sale. Only Albuvirtide and a few in the United States have entered phase three of clinical trials.

　　63. Albuvirtide is ______.

　　A. a China-developed long-acting oral AIDS drug

　　B. undergoing a clinical test on dogs to assure its safety

　　C. more efficient than other AIDS drugs and has fewer side effects

　　D. the only AIDS drug that has entered the last round of clinical trials

　　64. Albuvirtide is good news for AIDS patients in China because ______.

　　A. it’s a new drug and they are not resistant to it

　　B. it is one of the most effective first-line drugs

　　C. it has been included in the health insurance system

　　D. they can keep their privacy by being injected once a week

　　65. Which of the following statements is FALSE?

　　A. The research and development of Albuvirtide began in 2002.

　　B. There are usually three phases in the clinical trial for a new drug.

　　C. Albuvirtide is now in the stage of carrying out clinical trials.

　　D. The time needed for review varies from drug to drug.

　　66. We can infer from the passage that ______.

　　A. Albuvirtide can spare patients from taking oral drugs every day

　　B. the health insurance system has room for further improvement

　　C. most AIDS drugs being used now were developed in last century

　　D. China is leading the whole world in the field of AIDS research

　　Section C

　　Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.

　　A. In a list ranking countries by the happiness of their citizens, it put tropical Fiji 50 places below freezing Iceland.

　　B. The street sweeper can hold his head up high as he proudly does his job.

　　C. Danish people aren’t as suspicious as many other nations.

　　D. Most Danes are used to seeing between 50-70% of their salary going to the government!

　　E. Those 5.5 million people who call Denmark their home.

　　F. People have nice things in their houses, but they’re not mad about shopping and spending.

　　Where do you think the world’s happiest people live? Somewhere hot with sandy beaches? A country with a tradition of the fine food and culture? Not according to a recent study by the university of Leicester. Who are the happiest people on Earth? ___67___ Surprised? Well you’ll be more surprised when you hear that the Danes pay some of the highest taxes in the world. So what is the secret of their success?

　　Let’s start with all that tax they pay. The Danish government provides its people with one of the finest education and health systems in the world. It spends more on children and elderly people per capital than other country.

　　And there’s another advantage to those high taxes. Because a shop assistant’s final salary is not that much less than someone who works in a bank, for example, Danes don’t choose their careers based on money or status as people in other countries do. They choose the job they want to do. There’s a philosophy in Denmark known as “Jante-lov”, which translates as “you’re no better than anybody else.” ___68___ But workers in order countries are not used to looking at life in this way.

　　Money doesn’t seem as important in Denmark. It has been called a “post consumerist” society. ___69___ What is more important is the sense of society and it’s no surprise that Danes are very used to socializing. 92% of Danes belong to some kind of social club and these clubs are even paid for by the government.

　　___70___ They also show an amazing amount of trust in each other and their government. You can see sighs of this all over the country. You’ll find vegetable stalls with no assistant. You take what you want and leave the money in a basket. perhaps the bike is a good symbol for Denmark. The Danes can afford cars but they choose bikes—simple, economical, non-polluting machines that show no status and help keep people fit.

　　IV. Summary Writing

　　Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main points of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.

　　On a damp, boring, stay-in-house kind of day, I was a 4-year-old artist armed with a new treasure: my own big box of crayons(蜡笔). Somehow, the usual paper wasn’t special enough for these 64 perfect, sweet-smelling sticks of vivid color. I looked around for a bigger canvas(画布). If only there were hidden walls. Walls like the ones in Mom and Dad’s closet.

　　Slipping quietly down the hall to the bedroom, I stood on tiptoe to reach the string for the closet light. Words and images filled my mind faster than my hands could make them.

　　A brilliant rainbow was seen on one wall, with a cheery golden sun peeking out from above. Below, a giant shade tree supported a swing for stick-figure children. Around them, flowers bloomed everywhere.

　　My masterpiece! All my very own magic! I look in the walls, the colors and the brightness. Joy swelled inside me. But as my creativity wound down, a thought popped up: I’ve got to show Mom! Suddenly I was still.

　　Mom called out, “Dinner’s ready.” After a short time, her footsteps approached, and then finally, the closet door opened. I stood nervously in the corner.

　　Mom breathed in sharply, then stood frozen. Only her eyes moved as she slowly looked over my masterpiece. She was quiet for a long, long time. I didn’t dare breathe.

　　Finally, she turned to me.

　　“I like it,” she said, “No, I love it! I feel I have a new closet!”

　　Now, 45 years later, my childhood artwork is still there. And in my own house, the closet walls are masterpieces, too, created by my own daughters when they were little girls.

　　Every time I open a closet door, I remember that, as big as that box of crayons and white walls seemed when I was little, my monther’s love was the biggest thing of all.

　　I. Translations

　　Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.

　　1. 为了赶时髦，一些年轻人花费一个月的工资去购买新发行的电子产品。(spend)

　　2. 人们理所当然地认为颜值高的人有可能受到雇主的青睐。(grant)

　　3. 网购存在风险，因此下单之前的深思熟虑有助于避免不必要的损失。(exist)

　　4. 消息传来在新西兰发生地震后，中国政府立即租用直升机实施救援，为此国人感到十分自豪。(word)

　　II. Guided Writing

　　Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.

　　请根据下面的图标，结合你个人的经历，谈谈你的看法。

　　The value of something

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