高考英语解读考试说明模拟试卷
第工卷(三部分，共115分)
第一部分 听力理解(共两节，满分30分)
第一节(共5小题；每小题Ⅱ．5分，满分7．5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，你将有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 are the two speakers talking about?
A. Their country. B. A trip. C. Supper.
2. When does the plane take off?
A. At 18:15. B. At 10:00. C. At 8:15.
3. Where was the man last weekend?
A. In his sister's. B. At home. C. On the 4th Street.
4. What does the woman want to do?
A. Go into the man's office.
B. Leave a note.
C. Remain in the office.
5. When does the conversation take place?
A. After Saturday. B. On Saturday.
C. Before Saturday.
第二节(共重5小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分)
听下面5段对话或独白．每段对话或独白后有几道小题，从每题所给的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，各个小题将给出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至第7题．
6. Why does the man call the woman?
A. To ask her to go out with him.
B. To remind her of the concert.
C. To help her with her study.
7. What can we learn about the woman?
A. She doesn't really want to go.
B. She works hard at school.
C. She doesn't like music.
听第7段材料，回答第8至第10题．
8. How much does Mrs Brown know French?
A. She knows French pretty well.
B. She knows a little French.
C. She doesn't speak French at all.
9. How many languages can Mrs Brown speak?
A. Three. B. Four. C. Five.
10. What language does Mr Smith speak?
A. English, French and Japanese.
B. French, Spanish and Japanese.
C. French, English and Spanish.
听第8段材料，回答第11至第13题．
11. What is the possible relationship between the two speakers?
A. Teacher and student.
B. Close friends.
C. Doctor and patient.
12. Why is it hard for the woman to reduce some weight?
A. Her husband is feeding her.
B. She is still working.
C. She has no time for physical exercise.
13. What does Jessica's husband think of her?
A. She is too fat.
B. She overworks.
C. She should change her job.
听第9段材料，回答第14至第16题．
14. Why did the man apologize to the woman?
A. He forgot the date.
B. He was late for the appointment.
C. He forgot the name of the restaurant.
15. How did the woman feel?
A. Angry. B. Tired.
C. Excited.
16. Where does the conversation take place?
A. In a cinema. B. In a restaurant.
C. In a garage.
听第9段材料，回答第17至第20题．
17. Who is the speaker?
A. An official. B. A tourist.
C. A guide.
18. When can you come if you want to see how bread was baked
200 years ago?
A. On Sunday afternoon.
B. On Tuesday morning.
C. On Saturday afternoon.
19. Where did Sir Henry come from?
A. England. B. America.
C. France.
20. How many interesting places are mentioned?
A. Two. B. Three.
C. Four.
第二部分：英语知识运用（共两小节．满分35分）
第一节：单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
从A,B,C,D四个选项中，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑
21. ______ the speed of life continues to increase, we are fast
losing the art of enjoyment.
A. Now that B. As C. When D. So long as
22. ---Did you have a good time at the party?
---I'd rather I did. It was _____a meeting than a party.
A. much of B. something like C. rather like D. less of
23. His letter was so confusing and hard to understand. I could
hardly make any____ of it.
A. sense B. guess C. meaning D. explanation
24. --Mr. Lee, I came for the book you have promised me.
---Well, haven't I told you already that you_____ have it tomorrow morning.
A. will B. shall C. should D. wouldn't
25. It is not so much what he says that is important_____ he does for others.
A. that B. as
C. as what D. like which
26. --What happened to her teeth?
---She_____the apple more than she could chew.
A. had bitten B. bit C. has bitten D. bites
27. --Did you get_____good school? I mean, were you educated in a good school?
---Yes,______very good one in my hometown.
A. a; a B. the; the C. \; a D. the; \
28. --He is_____a brave man.
--- We can't admire his courage
A. actually; very much B. indeed; too a lot
C. really; too much D. truly; a bit
29. _____ the truth, I don't like to be laughed at
A. Tell; the public B. To tell; in public
C. Telling; in public D. I tell; the public
30. With the development of the Internet,______ communication is done by regular mail.
A. less B. more C. little D. much
31. Through the economic reform, the economic situation of China has_____ much better than it used to be.
A. turned into B. turned off
C. turned in D. turned out
32. Talking about buying cars, I prefer a car less than $ 8,000 to_____ over the amount.
A. this B. it C. that D. one
33. --Did Mike join you in the New Year's party?
--- Yes, we_____for hours when he turned up.
A. were singing and dancing B. sang and danced
C. had been singing and dancing D. had sang and danced
34. --Victor doesn't seem like the same person as before.
--- ______so much in the war has made him more thoughtful.
A. For him to see B. His seeing
C. Having seen D. To see
35.--- Can the clock on the wall be right?
--- ______.
A. It loses five minutes a week B. It says three minutes past me
C. It starts at 8: 00 a.m. D. It's later than 4:00
第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下列短文，从短文后所给各题的A,B,C,D四个选项中，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
Begin doing the work you love as soon as possible, even if you don't get paid for it, or if you can only work at it part-time. Albert Einstein was 36 to get a job as a physics professor. He could have said to himself, "Well, I just don't have the work related to 37 . I should give up on it and 38 for something else." Therefore, he wrote the two most famous papers while 39 as Patent(专利) Office worker. After the 40 , there was not any major 41 in the world that would not have wanted him to work for them.
If you want to work as an artist and are 42 as a waiter, don't think of yourself as a waiter who 43 one day to become an artist. That puts the 44 you love somewhere off in the distant future. Rather, think yourself as a (n) 45 , supporting yourself by waiting tables and paint , or draw as much as you can. It is 46 to earn a living wage as a waiter working 24 hours a week. That 47 plenty of time to devote to training or developing your craft(手艺) in the 48 hours.
While seeking the work you love, it 49 to expand your awareness (意识) into the universe of all possibilities. You don't want to be 50 the ideas of what you should do or what you have dome before. Having been 51 the possibilities, you can make a final 52 and select the work you love as your own.
Doing the work you love 53 that you be equally comfortable with the imaginative and the 54__. It requires the ability dream 55 dreams and the ability to face and master all the 1ittle details that make dreams come true.
36. A. unable B. able C. unwilling D. easy
37. A. science B. life C. physics D. money
38. A. settle B. work C. search D. look
39. A. employed B. regarded C. supported D. recognized
40. A. successes B. discoveries C. decisions D. papers
41. A. city B. factory C. university D. company
42. A. leading a life B. making a living C. known D. chosen
43. A. thinks B. imagines C. hopes D. decides
44. A. thing B. matter C. person D. work
45. A. artist B. waiter C. worker D. a painter
46. A. impossible B. unlucky C. important D. easy
47. A. sends B. spares C. leaves D. takes
48. A. business B. office C. away D. off
49. A. needs B. helps C. comes D. offers
50. A. interested in B. devoted to C. limited to D. troubled by
51. A. forward to B. eager to C. ready for D. open to
52. A. dream B. plan C. conclusion D. judge
53. A. suggests B. requires C. insists D. orders
54. A. necessary B. practical C. careful D. honest
55. A. nice B. real C. big D. many
第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分．满分40分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A,B,C,D四个选项中．选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
July 16th was a bad day for Mr. Arthur Johnson. In the morning, he set off from his home in Santa Barbara, California. It was the start of his summer holidays and he decided to visit friends at Las Vegas, and he hoped to go fishing in Lake Mead, 40 km from Las Vegas.
Johnson's troubles started while he was driving happily across the Mojave Desert. His car went wrong and he tried to repair it. Then, to make matters worse, his attempts to start the car used up the battery and left it useless. Alter Johnson had waited an hour in the hot sun, a Canadian driver, John
Williams, stopped and tried to help him. When both men failed, Williams promised to telephone a workshop to ask it to send a truck to pull the car away and repair its fuel pump.
Johnson left the keys in his car and sat in the shade of a large tree. Soon he fell asleep. While he was sleeping, a repair truck arrived from San Pedro (the nearest town) and pulled his car away. Later on, Johnson woke up and thought that somebody had stolen his car. He started to walk back toward San Pedro but a police
car stopped him to find out why he was walking in the desert.
Johnson looked like a man wanted in Los Angeles for robbery, so the police detained him at San Pedro for the night. The next day, Johnson telephoned his friends in Los Angeles. They drove to San Pedro and made the police believe that Johnson was a harmless salesman, so they set him free.
56. Johnson's car went wrong ______.
A. when he was near the Mojave Desert B. after he had passed San Pedro
C. before he left Santa Barbara D. not far from Los Angeles
57. What does the word "detained" mean?
A. caught B. controlled
C. kept D. hurt
58. How did Williams help Johnson?
A. He persuaded the police to set him free. B. He went to ask the police for help.
C. He drove Johnson into San Pedro. D. He arranged to have his car repaired.
59. Which is the best title of this passage?
A. A Bad Day for Arthur Johnson B. A Terrible Trip in the Desert
C. A Poorly-planned Journey D. An Interesting Car Trip
B
Reading comprehension
Is the pen mightier than the microbe( 细菌 )? That's the question Mark D. Sobsey sought to answer for Miox Corp. in Albuqerque.
The firm, which specializes in large-scale water-purification technology, asked Sobsey's research team at eh University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to evaluate whether its new battery-powered, pen-shaped device can quickly rid water of harmful bacteria, viruses, and other microbes. Miox hopes the simple, lightweight instrument will prove useful to soldiers,campers, international travelers, disaster victims, and anyone
else needing to clean up their drinking water.
Sobsey and his colleagues have found that the pen lives up to its instruction, at least in initial tests. The device is simple to use: A small amount of water poured into the top melts a slat tablet to produce brine. A twist of the pen sends electricity through the solution, creating highly reactive molecules called
mixed oxidants. The user then pours the activated brine into a liter or two of water.
Sobsey's group tested Miox's device on water that they had seeded with various disease-causing microbes. Without changing the water's taste or odor, a drawback of disinfection with chlorine, the mixed oxidants destroyed 99.99 percent of bacteria and viruses in 10 minutes. "Basically, everything we put in there is gone," says Maren E. Anderson, one of Sobsey's colleagues.
Although it took about 90 minutes, the mixed oxidants also largely cleaned the water of chlorine-resistant Cryptosporidium parvum. This parasite, which gained public attention in 1993 when it infected hundreds of thousands of people in Milwaukee through their drinking water, can cause severe diarrhea and even kill weak people.
To test how Miox'a instrument will work in the field, Sobsey's team will next test the purification devices on water samples that vary in qualities such as acidity and particulate matter. The researchers also hope to characterize the mixed oxidants that are fatal to the microbes. "We don't yet know the active species," says Anderson.
60. Which of the following statements is not true?
A. Mark D. Sobsey is charge of the researchers.
B. Maren E. Anderson is a workmate of Sobsey.
C. Miox Corperation has invented a new instrument.
D. The new instrument has been on sale in markets.
61. The device is used to_____.
A. make water nicer to drink B. keep people from getting fat
C. clean drinking water D. help people kill diseases
62. What can the best title of the passage?
A. A New Type of Instrument B. Pen-shaped Device Purifies Water
C. How to Clean Polluted Water D. Can water be cleaned easily?
63. What is the instrument like?
A. Small and light. B. Small but heavy.
C. Light and beautiful. D. Heavy and beautiful.
C
One of the greatest killers in the Western world is heart disease. The death rate from the disease has been increasing at an alarming speed for the past thirty years. Today in Britain, for example, about four hundred people a day die of heart disease. Medical experts know that people can reduce their chances of getting heart disease by exercising regularly, by not smoking, by changing their diets, and by paying more attention to reducing stress in their work.
However, western health- care systems are still not paying enough attention to the prevention of the disease. There is a need for more programs of educating the public about the causes and prevention of heart disease. Instead of supporting such programs, however, the U.S. health-care system is spending large sums of money on the surgical (外科的) treatment of the disease after it develops. This emphasis (强调) on treatment clearly has something to do with the technological advances that have taken place in the past ten to fifteen years. In this time, modern technology has enabled doctors to develop new surgical techniques. Many operations that were considered impossible of too risky a few years ago are now performed every day in U.S. hospitals. The result has been a huge increase in heart surgery.
Although there is no doubt that heart surgery can help a large number of people, some people point out that the emphasis on the surgical treatment of the disease has three clear disadvantages. First, it attracts interest and money away from the question of prevention. Second, it causes the cost of general hospital care to rise. After hospitals buy the expensive equipment that is necessary for modern heart surgery, they must try to recover the money they have spent. To do this, they raise costs for all their patients, not just those patients whose treatment requires the equipment. The third disadvantage is that doctors are encouraged to perform survey-even on patients for whom an operation is unnecessary because the equipment and expert skills are there. A government office recently stated that major heart surgery was often performed even though its chances of success were low. In
one type of heart surgery, for example, only 15 percent of patients improved their conditions after the surgery. However, more than 100,000 of these operations are performed in the United States every year.
64. What effect has modern technology had on medicine?
A. It has reduced the costs of medical treatment.
B. It has helped save the lives of most patients.
C. It has encouraged doctors to do more heart surgeries.
D. It has made more people prefer surgery to medicine.
65. "To do this" (in Paragraph 3) means_______.
A. to help patients recover
B. to increase the number of heart surgeries
C. to get back the money spent on the equipment
D. to buy new equipment for the treatment of heart disease
66. The author would agree that _____.
A. more money should be spent on the prevention of heart disease
B. heart surgery has helped most patients improve their conditions
C. modern technology has made heart surgery more risky than before
D. the public have known a great deal about the causes of heart disease
67. What would be the best title for the passage?
A. Heart Disease: Treat or Prevent
B. The Greatest Killer in the West
C. Modern Technology and Heart Surgery
D. Heart Surgery: Advantages and Disadvantages
D
Although the US is so big and its people have so many different racial backgrounds, it is in some ways less varied than Europe. The English language is used almost everywhere in its American form. The American way of speaking has developed independently of English and is on the whole closer to what can
be heard in Ireland.
Another instance of uniformity (一致) is in habits and ways of living. From Boston to Los Angeles it is as far as from France to Central Asia, and from east to west there are five time zones;
but everywhere people get up and go to bed at about the same
time, eat the same kind of food, buy in the same kind of shops,
work and rest at the same time of the day and have the same pattern
of holidays. In most or the things that matter there is less
difference between rich people and ordinary people or between
town and country, than in any single European nation.
Although the United States desires so much land and the
land produces far more food than the present population needs,
its people are by now almost entirely an urban society. Less than
a tenth of the people are engaged in agriculture and most of the
rest live in or around towns large and small. Here the traditional
picture is changing; most Americans do not live in small towns
any more. Half the population now live in some thirty metropolitan (大城市的) areas.
The fact that the United States has always been a single economic unit has contributed to uniformity. Modern industry fa-
vors large organization, and it is no accident that the world's
biggest commercial firms are American. The people can choose
between the products of competing manufacturers but the products are all much alike.
68. In describing the uniformity in the U.S. the author does not
mention that the American people
A. get up and go to work at the same time.
B. spend their holidays in the same pattern
C. buy and eat the same kind of food
D. have more or less the same income
69. What can we learn from the passage about the U.S. agriculture?
A. The American farmers need more land.
B. Americans are interested in farming.
C. It is now going backward.
D. It is quite modernized.
70. The author suggests in the last paragraph______.
A. the production size and organizational size are very big
B. it is a single economic unit that produces the same kind of products
C. there are more and more competing manufactures
D. people can choose from all kinds of products that are alike
71. The underlined part "In most of the things that matter" means______.
A. in most basic things such as food, clothing and houses
B. in the more expensive things such as cars, TV sets, etc
C. in their land, housing and bank savings
D. in their wealth and income
E
When someone asks me what business I am in, I become embarrassed. I stutter and stammer. My face feels hot. I envy people who can say they are bricklayers or barbers. I am jealous of writers, bookkeepers, and students. All these jobs speak for themselves. They do not need to be explained at length. I, on the other hand, must reply that I am a laugher.
I really do make a living at laughing, and a good one too. My laughing is - commercially speaking - much in demand. I am a good laugher, experienced. No one else laughs as well as I do. No one else has such command of the fine points of the art. For a long time, in order to avoid long explanations, I called myself
an actor. But my talents in the field of mime and speaking are so small that I felt this label to be too far from the truth. The truth is that I am a laugher. I am neither a clown nor a comedian. I do not make people gay. Instead, I show gaiety.
I can laugh like a king, or like a schoolboy. I am as much at home in the laughter of the seventeenth century as in that of the twentieth. And when I have to, I can laugh my way through all centuries, all classes of society, all ages and stages of a person's life. It is just a skill that I have learned, like the skill of repairing shoes. In my breast I harbor the laughter of America, the laughter of Africa, of Europe, India, and China. And for the fight fee I let it peal out according to the director's requirements.
Wherever and however laughter is needed - I am asked to do it. In short, I have become indispensable. I laugh on records. I laugh on tape. And television directors treat me with respect. I laugh sadly, gently, insanely. I laugh like a bus driver or like man who sells groceries - laughter in the morning, laughter at noon, and laughter at night!
I need hardly point out that a job of this kind is tiring. It has become especially so since I have mastered the art of infectious laughter. This is what I do best. The art has made.me indispensable to the third-and fourth-rate comedians who are afraid that people will not find their jokes funny. As a result, I spend most evenings in nightclubs. My job is to laugh during the weaker parts of the show. My loud, hearty laughter must be timed carefully. It must not come too soon, but neither must it be too late. At the prearranged moment I burst out in infectious laughter. The whole audience roars with me, and the joke is saved.
But as for me, I put on my coat and drag my weary self home, happy that I can go off duty at last. At home, I usually find telegrams waiting for me: "Need your laughter. Recording Tuesday." A few hours later I am sitting in an express train lamenting my fate.
As you might guess, I have little desire to laugh when I am off duty or on vacation. The cowhand is glad when he can forget the cows. The bricklayer is happy to forget the bricks. Carpenters usually have doors at home that don't work or drawers that are hard to open. Butchers like sweets, and bakers prefer meat to bread. Bullfighters raise birds for a hobby. Boxers feel sick when their children have nosebleeds. I find all this quite natural, for I never laugh off duty. I am a very solemn person.
During the first year of our married life my wife would often say to me. "Do laugh!" Since then she has come to realize that I can't grant her this wish. I am happy when I can relax my tense face muscles and my worn spirit in deep solemnity. Indeed, even other people's laughter gets on my nerves. It reminds me too much of my profession. So our marriage is a quiet peaceful one. My wife has forgotten how to laugh. Now and again I catch her smiling, and I smile too. We talk in low tenses, for I hate the noise of the nightclubs and the recording studios.
I go through life calmly. From time to time I permit myself a gentle smile, I often wonder whether I myself have ever laughed. I think not. My brothers and sisters say I was always a very serious boy.
I can copy the laughter of others. I can laugh in many different ways. But I doubt that I have ever heard the sound of my own laughter!
72. What is Not true according to the passage?
A. The man is good at laughing.
B. The man is quite popular.
C. The man often appears on TV.
D. The man is proud of his job.
73. The writer wants to tell us ____.
A. everyone can become an expert in a business
B. the laugher is an outstanding person
C. there is some reason for someone to do something
D. there is always a sad story behind a happy person
74. What is the probable meaning of the underlined word solemn?
A. funny B. serious
C. humorous D. careful
75. We can learn from the passage that
A. the man is born a happy person
B. the man must be a comedy actor
C. the man might have some mental disease
D. the man dislikes his job
第II卷（共35分）
第一节：短文改错（10分）
请注意答题要规范。
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Dear Peter,
How are you? How time flies! Now the winter vacation was over and I have come to back to school again.
We had 20 days in all for the holiday, during which we had the most important Chinese festival - Spring Festival. It took me about a week to visit my relatives and attend family parties, as it is a traditional custom in China. Of course, I spent most of the time doing my lessons. As you know, I will take the National Examination in June and there's a short time ahead. Every day I did some English reading materials, practiced writing compositions, worked out a number of science problems and so on. When I got tired, I would do something to relax myself, like playing basketball with my friends, listening to music, surfing the Internet, playing games, and everything that helped to recover my energy.
In a word, I had a full, busy and wonderful holiday. Howabout you?
I'm looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Yours
Li Hua