高考模拟试题汇编英语答案
高考英语模拟试题第一卷
第一部分 听力(共两节，满分20分)
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。
第一节 (共5小题;每小题1分，满分5分)
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
1. What time is it now?
A. 9:00 B. 9:10 C. 10:00
2. How did the woman feel about her holiday?
A. Excited B. Surprised C. Disappointed
3. What will the speakers eat for lunch?
A. Noodles B. Sandwiches C. Pizza
4. When is the project due?
A. In January B. In February C. In March
5. What kind of room does the man get in the end?
A. Two single rooms
B. A double room
C. A single room and a double room
第二节(共15小题;每小题1分，满分15分)
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟;听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. Where are the speakers?
A. At a shop B. At an office C. At home
7. Why does the woman like the smaller answering machine?
A. It is the cheapest B. It matches her desk C. It is of good quality
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. Why does the man call the woman?
A. To invite her to a concert B .To borrow her camera C. To ask about a band
9. What will the man do on Friday night?
A. Enjoy a concert B. pick up the woman C. Get the camera
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What was the man’s opinion about the film?
A. Amusing B. Scary C. Boring
11. Who did the speakers think acted well?
A. Roger Gale B. Matt Damon C. Jude Law
12. How many marks would the man give the film?
A. Six B .Seven C. Eight
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. When will the last examination be over?
A. On November 26 B. On November 29 C. On December 2
14. Why is the woman going to the Untied States?
A. To travel B. To study C. To visit friends
15. What is the woman expected to do next Monday?
A. Take an examination
B. Hand in her homework
C. Put a timetable on a notice board
16. What does the man think of teaching the woman’s class?
A. Interesting B. Tiring C. Annoying
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. How many people were there on the boat?
A. Six B. Twelve C. Eighteen
18. How did Rebecca get in touch with her friend?
A. By talking on the radio
B. By sending a text message
C. By making a phone call
19. Who did Nick ask for help?
A. The British coast guard
B. The Indonesia coast guard
C. The Australia coast guard
20. What happened to the boat in the end?
A. It sank near the island of Bali
B. It was rescued by a navy boat
C. It got to a port safely on its own
第二节部分知识运用(共两节，满分35分)
第一节单项填空(共15小题;每小题1分，满分15分)
请认真阅读下面各题，从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
21. England is a multicultural society and welcomes a variety of cultures which add a ____________ to our daily lives.
A. collision B. dimension C. dilemma D. privilege
【答案】B
【解析】考查名词辨析。collision碰撞;dimension方面;dilemma困境;privilege特权。句意：英国是一个多元文化的社会，它欢迎为我们日常生活增添内容的各种文化。故选B。
22. ---How could she have let something so important __________her mind?
---She’s fully applied to work recently and gets burnt out.
A. occupy B. cross C. slide D. slip
【答案】D
【解析】考查动词辨析。occupy占据;cross穿过;slide滑倒;slip滑脱。词组：slip one's mind忘记。句意：她怎么能把这么重要的事情忘记了呢?故选D。
23. Despite the failure of his business, he remains optimistic and ________untroubled by his problems.
A. hopefully B. approximately C. seemingly D. frequently
【答案】C
【解析】考查副词辨析。hopefully充满希望地;approximately大约;seemingly看来似乎，貌似;frequently经常地。句意：尽管生意失败，但他依旧乐观，貌似没有被他的问题所困扰。故选C。
24. We believe that this is only an inevitable trend, but _________ will prove beneficial.
A. one B. ones C. the one D. one that
【答案】D
【解析】考查代词。句意：我们相信这不仅是必然的趋势，而且也将证明是有利的(一个趋势)。分析句意可知，此处缺少不定代词one泛指“一个趋势”，其后为定语从句，修饰表物的不定代词要用连词that，且连词在定语从句中充当主语时，连词不能省略。故选D。
25. If you don’t admit a mistake and take responsibility for it, you’re _________ to make the same one again.
A. bound B. content C. due D. keen
【答案】A
【解析】考查形容词辨析。be bound to do一定会做;be content to do愿意做;be due to do一定要做;be keen to do渴望做。句意：如果你不承认错误并承担责任，你一定会再次犯同样的错误。故选A。
26. Confidence helps you to take a leap of faith when it comes to going after _______ it is that you truly desire.
A. why B. what C. where D. how
【答案】B
【解析】考查连词。句意：自信能让你在追求心之所向时放手一搏。分析句意及句子结构可知，it is that为强调句，空格处引导的从句是go after的宾语从句，连接词在从句作desire的宾语，意思为“什么”，应用代词what。故选B。
27. Hangzhou, _______the dreamy West Lake and the green hills can easily capture the hearts of visitors, hosted the 2016 G20 summit.
A. whose B. which C. of which D. of whom
【答案】C
【解析】考查连词。句意：杭州举办了2016届G20峰会，它梦幻般的西湖和绿色的小山很容易抓住游客的心。非限定性定语从句的几个固定结构，whose+n.，of which/whom the+n.，the+n. of which/whom，本句先行词是Hangzhou。故选C。
28. Having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition, Bob Dylan ______to be the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 2016.
A. turned out B. figured out C. broke out D. worked out
【答案】A
【解析】考查动词词组辨析。 turn out结果是;figure out想出;break out爆发;work out计算出。句意：因为用优秀的美国歌曲传统创造了新的诗歌表达，鲍勃迪伦结果是成为了2016年诺贝尔文学奖的得主。故选A。
29. ________ he has been living on a different planet, he probablyknows that there’s a new version of Windows-it’s called Vista.
A. Once B. Unless C. Though D. If
【答案】B
【解析】考查连词。once一旦;unless除非;though尽管;if如果。句意：除非他一直生活在一个不同的星球上，否则他极可能知道微软有一个新版本——它被称为Vista。故选B。
30. Part of the highway would still be temporarily closed _________the heavy fog continue.
A. might B. could C. would D. should
【答案】D
【解析】考查虚拟语气。句意：大雾一旦继续，高速公路的一部分仍将暂时关闭。分析句意及句子结构可知，此处表示对将来的虚拟，if如果，从句谓语可以使用should do，省略了条if后，should提前至从句主语之前。should从句中意为“一旦，万一”。故选D。
31. It is not until we have developed the better qualities in ourselves ______we can expect to find them in others.
A. when B. where C. that D. whether
【答案】C
【解析】考查连词。句意：直到我们自己养成了良好的素质，我们才可以期望在别人身上找到它们(良好的素质)。强调句型：It is/was+被强调部分+that/who+句子其它成分。当去掉it is/was和that/who时，句子成分齐全。分析句意及句子结构可知，此处为强调句型。故选C。
32. ---It’s said that you will resign the present job, why?
---____________. The atmosphere of the firm makes me feel at home.
A. That depends B. It’s not the case C. That’s for sure D. It’s hard to say
【答案】B
【解析】考查日常用语。That depends不好说(其情况而定);It’s not the case不是这样的;That’s for sure那是肯定的;It’s hard to say这很难说。句意：有人说你将辞去现在的工作，为什么?不是这样的。公司的氛围让我感觉在家一样。故选B。
33. The Chinese women’s volleyball team won the gold medal at the Rio Olympics, which is the third time the team _______Olympic gold.
A. claimed B. has claimed C. has been claiming D. had claimed
【答案】B
【解析】考查时态语态。句型：it is the+序数词+time that从句，从句谓语动词要使用现在完成时。claim有权利要求得到，与主语the team为主谓关系，应用主动语态。句意：中国女排在里约奥运会上获得了金牌，这是第三次团队获得奥运金牌。故选B。
34. Images of school gyms ________ with parents have been widely shared on social media, causing a heated debate.
A. packed B. to be packed C. packing D. having been packed
【答案】A
【解析】考查非谓语动词。句意：学校的体育馆挤满了家长的景象已被社会媒体广泛传播，这引起了激烈的争论。分析句意及句子成分可知，此处pack(塞进，拥进)与school gyms之间为动宾关系，应用过去分词(组)作后置定语，修饰school gyms。故选A。
35. ---Stop criticizing everyone! You should __________and admit that you aren’t perfect either!
---Maybe you’re right. But I don’t know what makes you think so.
A. kill the fatted calf B. have egg on your face
C. wash your hands off D. get down off your high horse
【答案】D
【解析】考查习惯用语。 kill the fatted calf设宴欢迎;have egg on your face丢脸;wash your hands off撒手不管;get down off your high horse别摆架子，省省吧。句意：别批评大家了!你省省吧，你应该承认你也不完美!也许，那你是对的。但是我不知道什么让你这么想的。故选D。
第二节完形填空(共20小题;每小题1分，满分20分)
请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将选项涂黑。
Do you know how discipline can help you achieve your goals? Do you know that discipline is important to 36 ? What is the power of discipline? How to become disciplined?
You might think that many people are not self disciplined, 37 I’m going to prove to you that people in general are disciplined, but 38 , in non-beneficial ways. There are many people who smoke daily 39 the fact that it is harmful and 40 and it could kill them. Such people are disciplined at 41 cigarettes and smoking. There are people who are disciplined at drinking lots of alcohol daily. Such people are disciplined at consuming alcohol. Do you 42 where I am going with this?
One of my friends who has a 43 for running spends half an hour every single morning running. Whether it is snowing or raining, she has to run. This is the kind of 44 discipline that you are supposed to 45 and create in your life.
Do you know someone who bought a book, but didn’t finish 46 it for some reason? Do you know someone who decided to improve his 47 and start eating more vegetables and fruit, but after two weeks, he 48 ?
These are all examples of 49 of discipline. If you are not disciplined，then you will have a hard time to get your 50 . As I mentioned in my book “The ultimate guide to achieving your goals” that you could know what you want, 51 and take action, but if you are not self-disciplined, you will 52 give up.
With discipline, you can start getting up early in the morning, exercise, and 53 yourself of the non-beneficial habits such as smoking and eating non-healthy food. With discipline, you can change negative habits to positive habits. With discipline, you can join the gym and start working on having a 54 body. Do you see what the 55 of discipline can do?
Always remember what Jim Rohn said, “One discipline always leads to another discipline.”
36. A. wealth B. success C. fortune D. health
37. A. for B. and C. or D. but
38. A. unfortunately B. unwillingly C. unnecessarily D. unexpectedly
39. A. besides B. despite C. except D. without
40. A. courageous B. disgusting C. dangerous D. forbidden
41. A. selling B. buying C. getting D. consuming
42. A. care B. see C. feel D. mind
43. A. passion B. gift C. respect D. reason
44. A. formal B. positive C. negative D. religious
45. A. form B. learn C. follow D. believe
46. A. reading B. reciting C. analyzing D. reviewing
47. A. service B. diet C. skill D. performance
48. A. broke down B. turned up C. gave up D. set out
49. A. lack B. gesture C. sign D. symbol
50. A. attention B. order C. credit D. desire
51. A. plan B. listen C. ask D. hope
52. A. obviously B. practically C. likely D. quickly
53. A. persuade B. inform C. deliver D. break
54. A. healthier B. weaker C. heavier D. clumsier
55. A. demand B. power C. principle D. measure
【答案】1.B
2.D
3.A
4.B
5.C
6.D
7.B
8.A
9.B
10.C
11.A
12.B
13.C
14.A
15.D
16.A
17.C
18.D
19.A
20.B
【解析】1.考查名词辨析。wealth财富;success成功;fortune命运;health健康。根据前一句“你知道纪律如何帮助你实现你的目标吗?”可知，此处指纪律对成功也是很重要的。故选B。
2.考查连词。根据空前后句意“你也许认为很多人的自律性不高”“我要证明给你看的是人们一般是有纪律性的”可知，前后存在转折关系。故选D。
3.考查副词辨析。unfortunately不幸地;unwillingly不情愿地;unnecessarily没必要地;unexpectedly意外地。根据下文列举的吸烟、喝酒的例子可推知，此处指，“不幸地是，这些都是不好的(non-beneficial)例子”。故选A。
4.考查介词辨析。besides除此之外(还有);despite尽管;except除此之外;without没有。句意：尽管吸烟是有害的是一个事实，但是有很多人每天都吸烟。故选B。
5.考查形容词辨析。courageous勇敢的;disgusting恶心的;dangerous危险的;forbidden被禁止的。此处顺承前文，与harmful对应，表示“吸烟是有害和危险的”。故选C。
6.考查动词辨析。sell卖;buy买;get得到;consume消耗。句意：这种人在消耗香烟和吸烟方面是遵守规律的。另外根据后文的“Such people are disciplined at consuming alcohol.”可知，此处应使用consume消耗。故选D。
7.考查动词辨析。care关心;see看到，明白;feel感觉;mind介意。句意：你明白我在哪里将会引用到这点吗?故选B。
8.考查名词辨析。passion激情;gift礼物;respect尊重;reason原因。根据下文的“Whether it is snowing or raining, she has to run.”(无论下雪或下雨，她都必须去跑步)可知，我的一个朋友有每隔一天进行一次晨跑的激情。故选A。
9.考查形容词辨析。formal正式的;positive积极的;negative消极的;religious宗教的。此处与前文吸烟、喝酒不良习惯形成对照，这是一种积极的自律性。故选B。
10.考查动词辨析。form形成;learn学习;follow遵循;believe相信。句意：这是一种在你的生活中，你应该遵循和创造的积极自律性。故选C。
11.考查动词辨析。read阅读;recite背诵;analyze分析;review审查。句意：你知道有的人买了一本书，但是因为某种原因没有读完吗?故选A。
12.考查名词辨析。service服务;diet饮食;skill技巧performance表现。根据下文的“start eating more vegetables and fruit”，可知此处指改善自己的饮食。故选B。
13.考查动词词组搭配。break down抛锚;turn up露面;give up放弃;set out 出发。句意：但是两周后，他就放弃了。故选C。
14.考查名词辨析。lack缺乏;gesture姿势;sign符号;symbol象征。根据上文可知，列举的这些例子都是缺乏自律性的。故选A。
15.考查名词辨析。. attention注意;order顺序;credit信用;desire愿望。句意：如果你自律性不好，那么实现你的愿望将是很困难的。故选D。
16.考查动词辨析。plan计划;listen听;ask问;hope希望。句意：正像我在我的“实现你的目标终极指南”中提到的，你能知道你想要的、能计划并采取行动，但是如果你自律性不强，你将可能放弃。故选A。
17.考查副词辨析。obviously显然地;practically实际上;likely可能;quickly快速地。句意：但是如果你自律性不强，你将可能放弃。故选C。
18.考查动词辨析。persuade劝说;inform通知;deliver传递;break打破，解除。句意：有纪律，你能够每天早上早起、锻炼，你能把你身上像吸烟和吃不健康食物的不好习惯打破。故选D。
19.考查形容词辨析。healthier更健康的;weaker更弱的;heavier更重的;clumsier更笨的。句意：有了自律性，你能进入体育馆，开始为有一个更健康的身体而努力。故选A。
20.考查名词辨析。demand要求;power力量;principle纪律;measure措施。句意：你看到自律的力量能做些什么了吗?故选B。
【点评】本文议论文。文章主要论述了自律的力量及对人们的影响，作者呼吁人们加强自律，破除不良习性，培养健康向上的生活习惯。
高考英语模拟试题第二卷
第三部分阅读理解(共15小题;每小题2分，满分30分)
请认真阅读下列四篇短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Discovering Tasmania
The island of Tasmania is separated from mainland Australia by the Bass Strait. The island is a place of natural beauty and has more than 2,000 km of walking tracks and 18 national parks. If you go on a tour, you'll discover a wild and beautiful place where the people are friendly and the food is delicious. If you don’t like walking, there are other tours you can choose from including a river cruise and cycling. You can also combine your tour with fishing, sailing or sunbathing on the beach.
One of the most incredible places to walk is along the Tarkine coast which is located in the north-west of Tasmania. It’s such a wild and remote area that you can easily complete your walk without seeing anyone apart from the members of your group and your two guides. The area contains the largest temperate rainforest in Australia which is home to more than 50 endangered species. It is also home to many Aboriginal Heritage Sites. Your guides will provide you with plenty of information about the area as you complete that part of your tour. During your tour, you’ll come across rivers, mountain ranges, spectacular waterfalls, wildlife and long wild beaches. It will be an experience you won’t easily forget.
Tour Itinerary:
Day 1:
You’re picked up from your hotel in the town of Launceston and driven to the Tarkine. You then complete a three-hour walk through the forest before arriving at your camp at Mystery Creek. There you will enjoy a delicious meal cooked by your guides. .
Day 2:
After breakfast, you continue deeper into the rainforest, passing some of the tallest trees in the world as you go, and stopping for lunch and then camp in the evening.
Day 3:
The highlight of today’s trek is the Tarkine Falls, a beautiful 15-metre waterfall.
Day 4:
Today you can stay at the camp and bathe in the Tarkine Falls, or you can go for a day trek for more fantastic views of the forest.
Day 5:
After a last trek through the forest, you are picked up at about 4:00 p.m. and you arrive in Launceston at around 7:00 p.m.
The tour includes two professional guides, transport to and from the rainforest, all food while on the tours and all safety equipment. You should buy or hire recommended camping equipment including: backpacks, sleeping bags, sleep mats, head torches，rain coats and trousers.
56. A tourist to the island can_.
A. cycle along the Tarkine coast and through the forest
B. buy or hire as much camping equipment as possible
C. go for a day trek for more fantastic views on Day 5
D. choose to make a sailing tour of the place for pleasure
57. From the passage we know that_.
A. people will walk hours in all the five days during the tour
B. many species in danger are protected in the national parks
C. it takes about three hours to drive from Launceston to Tarkine
D. the tour provides guides, accommodation and safety equipment
【答案】1.D
2.C
【解析】1.细节理解题。根据第一段中的“If you don’t like walking, there are other tours you can choose from including a river cruise and cycling. You can also combine your tour with fishing, sailing or sunbathing on the beach.”(如果你不喜欢走路，你可以从河道乘船和骑自行车中选择其他旅游线路。你也可以在你的旅行中，钓鱼、 航行或在海滩上晒日光浴。)可知，如果你去了这个岛屿，你可以选择航行。故选D。
2.细节理解题。根据Day 5中的“After a last trek through the forest, you are picked up at about 4:00 p.m. and you arrive in Launceston at around 7:00 p.m.(在最后徒步穿越森林后，大约 下午4:00你会被车接走，大约 晚上7:00抵达朗塞斯顿)可知，开车从Launceston到Tarkine，将花费三个小时的时间。故选C。
【点评】本文为介绍说明文。文章介绍了(大洋洲东南的)塔斯马尼亚岛的旅游路线和安排。
B
Art is visible. However, everything one sees is filtered through certain conditions, some of them historical, and others, natural. The historical conditions include the material which is used —oil, colors, and the canvas; second, a certain style. There can be a general style, for example, the style of Impressionism, or a particular style, for example, the individual ways in which two painters, both impressionists, paint. The natural conditions include certain unchanging psychological laws of sight, for instance, the effects of colors or optical illusions.
The conditions of art are nothing but a particular way of interpreting reality. To understand this, one can examine the difference between the classical Greek and the classical Egyptian styles. For the Greeks, the reality of the visible was given by the perspective and the situation in which the object appears; for that reason they presented a person in his individual movements. For the Egyptians, however, this was only the appearance of a brief moment, which, according to their beliefs, was not real. Therefore, the Egyptians searched for the permanent essence and the typical character in their depiction of an object. For the Egyptians, Greek art was an illusion; for the Greeks, on the other hand, Egyptian art was unrealistic constructivism.
The way in which reality appears in art must not be regarded on its own. It is affected by many other systems of recognizing reality, including the political, religious, economic, intellectual, and social — in short, all the phenomena of human life.
Moreover, art is always of a certain epoch (纪元)，with its particular conception of reality. Thus, when discussing, for example, the art of ancient myth, of medieval Christianity, or that of the technological age, one must be aware that myth, Christianity, or technology was the most outstanding feature of the epoch.
It is paradoxical (似是而非的)to understand art as some kind of copy of the fields of experience connected with it. So, for example, it is meaningless for the work of art to be compared with the landscape, which served the artist as his model. Even if the artist had tried to make what he painted as similar as possible to the model he used, the landscape which he saw is only the matter from which something completely different emerges since he has submitted his view to the conditions of art: namely to the material used (colors, canvas, etc.), to his style, and even to the fact that he paints on a flat surface. Thus one must contemplate (注视)a work of art by itself. Even if it is connected to other fields of experience it nevertheless displays something unique which appears in that piece of art and there alone.
58. What is mentioned as one of the conditions through which art is seen?
A. Impressionism. B. Optical illusions.
C. Nature. D. Perspective.
59. Why did the Egyptians search for the permanent essence of an object?
A. Egyptian art was thought to be unrealistic constructivism.
B. They should present a person in his individual movements.
C. The reality of the visible was only the presence of an instant.
D. The appearance of the object features largely in the reality.
60. What can we infer after reading the passage?
A. The conditions of art are more than a particular way of interpreting reality.
B. The way in which reality appears in art should be regarded only on its own.
C. Myth, Christianity, or technology was under the influence of a unique style.
D. Works of art were usually produced in response to certain interpretations.
【答案】1.B
2.D
3.C
【解析】1.细节理解题。根据第一段中的“The natural conditions include certain unchanging psychological laws of sight, for instance, the effects of colors or optical illusions.”(自然条件包括视觉上的不变的心理规律，例如，颜色或光学错觉效果。)可知正确答案。故选B。
2.细节理解题。根据第二段中的“Egyptians, however, this was only the appearance of a brief moment, which, according to their beliefs, was not real. Therefore, the Egyptians searched for the permanent essence and the typical character in their depiction of an object.”(然而，埃及人认为这只是一个短暂时刻的外观，根据他们的信仰，这不是真实的。因此，埃及人在他们描绘的一个对象中去寻找永恒的本质和典型特征。)可知正确答案。故选D。
3.推理判断题。通读全文可知，艺术是一个时期文化的综合体现，当时的神话、基督教或技术都会影响到艺术的独特风格。故选C。
【点评】本文为介绍说明文。文章介绍了艺术是一个时期文化的综合体现，当时的神话、基督教或技术都会影响到艺术的独特风格。
C
A new study revealed that the formation of the Earth, Sun and Moon that cause changes in Earth’s tides can also trigger a special kind of Earthquake along the California’s San Andreas Fault(断层).
The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science，is based on previous researcher suggesting that the gravitational tug of sun and moon is not only affecting the sea levels of Earth, but can also stretch and compress that Earth’s crust, producing tremors and quakes. Furthermore, the new study showed that small tremors deep underground were more likely to occur during certain periods of the tidal cycle.
For the study, the researchers looked at about 81,000 low-frequency earthquakes from 2008 to 2015 along the Parkfield section of the San Andreas Fault and compared it to the two-week tidal cycle known as the “fortnightly tide，” Low-frequency earthquakes are named due to the rumbling sound they make and not by the rate of its occurrence. These kinds of earthquake only occur about 15 to 30 kilometers below ground and are no larger than magnitude 1 in the Richter scale.
The researchers discovered that low-frequency earthquakes tend to occur during the waxing period of the tidal cycle, when the tides are getting little by little. It is already known that the strongest Earth tides occur when the sun and moon are in a straight line, while the tide is at its weakest state when the sun and moon are 90 degrees apart.
According to the researchers, low-frequency earthquakes show that some part of the San Andreas Fault is creeping, or slowly moving, almost all the time. With the help of the tidal forces, low-frequency earthquakes could provide more information about the deeper part of the fault.
“They tell us that the fault continues down below where the regular or typical earthquakes stop on the San Andreas, about 10 or 12 km (about 6 to 7 miles),” said David Shelly, a seismologist at USGS and helped write the study, in a statement. “And they tell us a lot of things about that deep part of the fault that we had no idea existed at all before.”
“It’s almost like having a lot of little creep meters embedded in the fault，“Shelly said. “We can use these low-frequency earthquakes as measurements of, at least in a relative sense, how much slip is happening at each little spot on the deep part of the fault where we see these events. When we don’t see them, we don't know what’s happening; we don’t know whether it，s slipping silently or not slipping at all.”
The information is incredibly useful, he added. Whenever the deep part of the fault slips, the stress gets transferred to the shallow part of the fault.
“So if all of a sudden, we saw that the deep part of the fault was slipping a huge amount, it might be an indication that there was an increased chance of having an earthquake come at the shallower part of the fault” he said.
61. What causes tremors and quakes according to the passage?
A. The formation of the Earth, Sun and Moon.
B. The change of the sea levels of Earth.
C. The effect of the gravitational tug of sun and moon on Earth’s crust.
D. The movement of creeping in the deep part of the San Andres Fault.
62. The underlined word ‘"they” in Paragraph 6 refers to_.
A. the researchers B. the tidal forces
C. the low-frequency earthquakes D. the typical earthquakes
63. Low-frequency earthquakes occur when_.
A. the tides are getting bigger gradually
B. the sun and moon are in a straight line
C. the sun and moon are 90 degrees apart
D. the San Andreas Fault moves slowly
64. According to Shelly, the most important function of the study is_.
A. to find out where the typical earthquakes occur
B. to indicate when the regular earthquakes occur
C. to uncover how low-frequency earthquakes occur
D. to offer more information about the deeper part of the fault
【答案】1.C
2.C
3.A
4.D
【解析】1.推理判断题。根据第二段中的“… the gravitational tug of sun and moon is not only affecting the sea levels of Earth, but can also stretch and compress that Earth’s crust, producing tremors and quakes.”(太阳和月亮的引力不只是影响地球的海平面，而且也拉伸和压缩地壳，产生震动和地震。)可推知，太阳和月亮的引力对地壳的影响会造成震动和地震。故选C。
2.推理判断题。根据第五段中的“With the help of the tidal forces, low-frequency earthquakes could provide more information about the deeper part of the fault.”及第六段中的“They tell us that the fault continues down below where the regular or typical earthquakes…”可推知，此处的they指的是low-frequency earthquakes(低频地震) 。故选C。
3.推理判断题。根据第二段中的“The researchers discovered that low-frequency earthquakes tend to occur during the waxing period of the tidal cycle, when the tides are getting little by little.”(研究人员发现，低频率地震倾向于满月时期的潮汐周期，当潮汐变得一点点发生。)可推知，低频地震会让潮汐逐渐地变强。故选A。
4.细节理解题。根据倒数第三段及倒数第二段中的“The information is incredibly useful, he added. Whenever the deep part of the fault slips, the stress gets transferred to the shallow part of the fault.”(他补充道，这信息是非常有用的。每当深层断裂带的一部分滑动时，压力会转移到断裂带的浅层部分。)可知，这个研究的主要功能是为研究深层断裂带提供有效的信息。故选D。
【点评】本文为科技说明文。文章介绍了对低频地震及地球潮汐现象的研究及其研究价值。
D
Sir Nicholas Winton, rescuer of children, died on July 1st,2015,aged 106.
When the letters and the honor came knocking on the door of his house in Maidenhead, and the filmmakers came calling, Nicholas Winton always protested that he was no hero. Heroes faced danger; he never had. They put their lives on the line; he had just worked at home in Hampstead, after a day being a stockbroker in the City. They avoided bullets and the secret police; he wrote letters, made telephone calls，and composed lists.
The fact that he had rescued 669 children from Czechoslovakia just as the Nazis invaded did not, in his mind, constitute heroism. He hadn’t gone out there in 1938 with any burning urge to do good; just for a holiday, in fact. Nor had he gone looking for children to rescue. Instead they and their parents had come to him, as soon as word got round that he might be able to help them leave Prague and get to the West. From 6.00 a.m. the knocks would come at the door of his room in the Europa Hotel, and he would open it to find some shivering, starving, desperate figure.
When faced with a problem, his instinct was to solve it. So he made lists of the children, took their photographs, got them Home Office entry permits, found them foster families and organised their departure on trains, via the Netherlands, to Liverpool Street. After just three weeks in Prague, he went back to Britain and carried on the work from there.
The British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia gave him almost no help, so he took sole charge himself. The Home Office was slow with entry permits, so he copied some illegally. In search of foster-parents for the children he put their photos in Picture Post; in the hope of farther havens for them he wrote to governors and senators in America and even to President Roosevelt, to no avail. He could have rescued at least 2,000 more, he said later, if America had been willing to take any.
A hero might have got involved in the stress and distress of individual cases. He avoided that by treating them like a commercial transaction: like the world he knew, in fact. A market was created, takers were sought and any likely bidder would do. Siblings were separated, if necessary. Jewish children 一 they were almost all Jewish 一 were often placed with Gentile families. Mr Winton did not care and he just had to get the children out alive and fast. When they arrived, exhausted, at Liverpool Street he seldom greeted them himself, preferring to stay calmly at a distance. Only one event traumatised him: the disappearance of 250 children on the last transport of September 1st 1939，as war was declared. But this awful thing too he stored at the back of his mind, realising that he had done all he could and his part was over. The scrapbook of lists， photographs and begging letters went up to the attic; he said nothing about it, and moved on.
He liked it that way. The silent background suited him very well. For 50 years he sat on the Czech story, not supposing anyone would want to know, until in 1988 the scrapbook came to light and, with it, a blaze of publicity, culminating in an evening on Esther Rantzen’s “That’s Life” TV show when the whole audience suddenly stood up round him, applauding him，and every one was a child he had saved. It was “absolutely awftil”，he thought; and wept with long-suppressed joy.
He was still no hero, though, in his own book. He had had no desire to improve the world: indeed, not even much idea which job he was best suited for. At his father’s suggestion he had tried banking first, having left Stowe with nothing much to show for it. After the war he dabbled in business，but it didn’t take. In later years he worked for a mental-health charity and helped to set up homes for the elderly; and wondered why saving the Czech children was deemed more heroic than those things. He had simply done what needed doing at that time, in that place. Surely any decent person would have done the same?
65. Why did Nicholas Winton refuse to regard himself as a hero?
A. His behavior didn’t matter in the rescue.
B. He didn’t undergo risk in the rescue.
C. He didn’t want to make himself public.
D. His travel to Prague was simply for a holiday.
66. What made Winton decide to help rescue the children?
A. His strong desire to do good.
B. His determination to be a hero.
C. His hatred towards Nazis.
D. His sympathy for children’s fate
67. What can we learn about Winton from Paragraph 5?
A. He experienced a tough time during the rescue.
B. He didn’t get any aid from the British government.
C. He intended to send all children to America but failed.
D. He transported children to Britain with official entry permits.
68. Why did Mr Winton show little enthusiasm after children arrived in Britain?
A. He didn't want the rescue to have great impact on his future life.
B. He merely wanted the children to be adopted as soon as possible.
C. He felt sorry for the disappearance of 250 children on the last transport.
D. He was satisfied with the effort that he had made to rescue the children.
69. What can we infer from the last two paragraphs?
A. Winton uncovered the hidden history himself after 50 years.
B. Winton was reluctant to see those saved by him on the TV show.
C. Winton thought what he had done for the children nothing special.
D. Winton didn’t achieve great success in his career after the war.
70. What is the best title for the passage?
A. A job well done B. A risky rescue
C. A group of lucky children D. A living legend
【答案】1.B
2.D
3.A
4.A
5.C
6.A
【解析】1.推理判断题。根据第二段中的“Nicholas Winton always protested that he was no hero. Heroes faced danger; he never had…They avoided bullets and the secret police; he wrote letters, made telephone calls，and composed lists.”(尼古拉斯·温顿总是提出抗议，称他不是英雄。英雄们面临危险，他从来没有过……他们避免子弹和秘密警察;他只是写写信，打了个电话和列个名单。)可知，尼古拉斯·温顿拒绝把自己当作英雄是因为他认为自己没有经历危险。故选B。
2.细节理解题。根据第三段的描述及第四段中的“When faced with a problem, his instinct was to solve it.”(当面对一个问题的时候，他的直觉是解决它。)可知，尼古拉斯·温顿去营救这些孩子，并不是出于要做英雄、做慈善和反对纳粹，仅仅是依靠见到那些悲惨孩子时的同情之心。故选D。
3.推理判断题。根据第五段的描述可知，在整个的营救过程中，英国捷克斯洛伐克难民委员会没有给他任何帮助，他独自承担费用，内务部在审核通行证上也很缓慢，为此他还给美国的州长、参议员，甚至是给总统写信，但收效甚微。由此可知，在营救过程中，他经历了很大的困难。故选A。
4.推理判断题。根据第六段中的“A hero might have got involved in the stress and distress of individual cases. He avoided that by treating them like a commercial transaction: like the world he knew, in fact…Mr Winton did not care and he just had to get the children out alive and fast. When they arrived, exhausted, at Liverpool Street he seldom greeted them himself, preferring to stay calmly at a distance.”可推知，尼古拉斯·温顿在被营救的孩子到达英国后，并没有表现出太多的热情，甚至是有意疏远他们，是不想因为营救了这些孩子被人们当作英雄而影响了自己的生活。故选A。
5.推理判断题。根据最后两段的描述及最后两句话“He had simply done what needed doing at that time, in that place. Surely any decent person would have done the same?”(他只是做了那个时期、那个地方需要做的事情。任何正义的人一定也会做同样的事情。)可推知，尼古拉斯·温顿认为自己做的事情并没有什么特别的。故选C。
6.标题归纳题。通读全文可知，在二战期间，尼古拉斯·温顿曾经营救了669名捷克斯洛伐克儿童，他历经艰辛最终营救取得了成功。选项中“A job well done”(做得很好的一件事情)适合本文最佳标题。故选A。
【点评】本文为介绍说明文。本文主要介绍了在二战期间，曾经营救了669名捷克斯洛伐克儿童的尼古拉斯·温顿，他历经艰辛最终营救取得了成功。
第四部分任务型阅读(共10小题;每小题1分，满分10分)
请认真阅读下 列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。
注意：请将答案写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。每个空格只填1个单词。
One of the keys to successful time management is prioritizing tasks and distinguishing optional activities from the essential. Whether you are writing different “to-do’s” in different colors of ink or are giving each list item a priority ranking, your decisions about the importance of activities will have a huge impact on how you spend your day.
Most of those who run their own business tend to develop a deep and strong commitment to work and to the overall success of their endeavors. Long hours are a norm, sleep appears to be optional and almost every effort is poured into growing the business.
However, those who overemphasize work-related activities at the expense of truly essential projects may actually see their time management collapse.
That’s because neglect of essential projects will make life, overall, less meaningful and enjoyable. At some point, the mere process of chasing after money will no longer subconsciously justify the disregard of some very important things.
What are these essential tasks? They have nothing to do with record keeping, taxes, improving advertising copy or handling customer relations. Instead, they involve being a good father, a good wife and a good person. These chores are the ones that give us a reason to have our financial goals. We work in the first place for these things.
Your essential projects will be determined by your own personal preferences and lifestyle. Those with strong religious beliefs will consider worship essential. Those who feel the need to exercise in order to relax will label physical activity as an essential activity.
It’s too easy to let these important things slide to the back burner when one is under pressure to produce or to grow their business. One invests a great deal of himself or herself in creating a successful project and it can feel as though spending every waking hour at work is more important than virtually anything else.
This perspective, however intuitive it may seem to one looking for ways to improve this or her time management skills, is actually a dead end. Over time, one will notice their motivation for work-related efforts slipping away. That inevitability arises from a subconscious recognition of life’s declining value, possible feelings of guilt, and a recognition that one is simply not meeting his or her most important responsibilities and commitments.
As you triage your activities as a part of your time management strategies, resist the temptation to elevate those tasks directly related to working above other truly essential responsibilities. By maintaining a proper balance you can invigorate(使有活力)your efforts and live a fuller, more meaningful life.
Work isn’t incompatible(矛盾的)with being a fulfilled person. On the contrary, a great work ethic and a successful business can lead to a great deal of fulfillment. However, when important non-work tasks are classified to the bottom of a “to-do” list, it surely results in negative consequences.
【答案】1.ignore/neglect/overlook/disregard
2.phenomenon
3.committed/devoted/dedicated
4.pressure/ stress
5.unable
6.tend
7.motivated
8.Advice/Tips
9.balance
10.conflict
【解析】1.根据本空下面的总结摘要可知，此处指“一些你不能忽视(ignore/neglect/overlook/disregard)的必要项目”。故填ignore/neglect/overlook/disregard。
2.根据本空右侧的总结可知，此处指“在时间管理上的一个反常现象(phenomenon)”。故填phenomenon。
3.根据第二段中的“Most of those who run their own business tend to develop a deep and strong commitment to work and to the overall success of their endeavors.”可知，大部分经营自己生意的人对他们的工作和成功都是全力以赴的。commit/devote/dedicate付出，贡献。故填committed/devoted/dedicated。
4.根据语境可知，此处指这背后的巨大压力(pressure/ stress)是拓展业务和致力于他们的追求。故填pressure/ stress。
5.根据本空左侧小标题“忽略基本项目的后果”可知，此处指他们不能理解生活的正真意义和享受生活。be unable to do sth.不能做某事。故填unable。
6.此处仍指“忽略基本项目的后果”，他们会在创建一个成功的项目后，忘记一些重要的事情。tend to do倾向于做某事。故填tend。
7.此处仍指“忽略基本项目的后果”，过一段时间，他们会没有进一步努力的动力。be motivated to do sth.有动力做某事。故填motivated。
8.根据左侧的总结摘要可知，此处指时间安排技巧方面的建议(advice/tips)。故填Advice/Tips。
9.在工作和基本职能方面保持一个良好的平衡。keep a good balance between在……之间保持一个良好的平衡。故填balance。
10.根据最后一段中的“Work isn’t incompatible with being a fulfilled person…However, when important non-work tasks are classified to the bottom of a ‘to-do’ list, it surely results in negative consequences.”可推知，我们要避免与需要更多注意的重要的非工作任务之间的冲突。conflict(冲突)。故填conflict。
【点评】本文为议论文。文章论述了时间管理方面的问题。成功的时间管理的关键之一是从本质上区别优先任务和可选的活动。文章中给我们提供了如何成功管理时间的建议。
第五部分：书面表达(满分25分)
81. 请阅读下面短文，并按照要求用英语写一篇150字左右的文章。
With the development of Chinese comprehensive national economy, the overall number of foreign students who come to China to study has been increasing sharply in the past few years. However, the number of those foreign students who can a work permit after graduation is falling year by year.
There are some factors which account for this situation. In spite of the fact that there are a lot of companies in China, many of them prefer to hire local people rather than foreigners. Most companies want to employ those who have some working experience. Around 70% of jobs are filled through solid connections, while foreign students often communicate and talk with overseas students. So many of them find it hard to find a job in China. To stay or to leave? That’s a question for them.
【写作内容】
1. 用约30个单词写出上文概要;
2.用约120个单词发表你的观点，内容包括：
(1)他们应该做出何种选择;
(2)用两至三个理由支撑你的观点。
【写作要求】
1.可以支持文中任一选择，但必须提供理由或证据;
2.阐述观点或论据时，不能直接饮用原文语句;
3.作业中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称;
【评分标准】
内容完整，语言规范，语篇连贯，词数适当。
【答案】Nowadays, more and more foreign students are studying in China. However, the number of those who can find a job is decreasing. The reasons vary and they are in a dilemma.
I’m in favor of them staying in China to find a job after graduation…
I’m in favor of them leaving China after graduation…
【解析】略
英语听力参考答案
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