1、第 1页（共 7页） 2017 年全国统一高考英语试卷（新课标年全国统一高考英语试卷（新课标） 第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分 40 分）分） 第一节（共 15 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 30 分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项 涂黑。 A Pacific Science Center Guide Visit Pacific Science Centers Store Dont forget to stop by Pacific Science Centers Store while you are
2、 here to pick up a wonderful science activity or remember your visit. The store is located (位于) upstairs in Building 3 right next to the Laster Dome. Hungry Our exhibits will feed your mind but what about your body? Our caf offers a complete menu of lunch and snack options, in addition to seasonal s
3、pecials. The caf is located upstairs in Building 1 and is open daily until one hour before Pacific Science Center closes. Rental Information Lockers are available to store any belongings during your visit. The lockers are located in Building 1 near the Information Desk and in Building 3. Pushchairs
4、and wheelchairs are available to rent at the Information Desk and Denny Way entrance. ID required. Support Pacific Science Center Since 1962, Pacific Science Center has been inspiring a passion (热情) for discovery and lifelong learning in science, math and technology. Today Pacific Science Center ser
5、ves more than 1.3 million people a year and beings inquiry-based science education to classrooms and community events all over Washington State. Its an amazing accomplishment and one we connot achive without generous support from individuals, corporations, and other social organizations. Visit pacif
6、icsciencecenter.org to find various ways you can support Pacific Science Center. 21. Where can you buy a souvenir at Pacific Science Center? A. In Building 1.B. In Building 3. C.At the last Dome.D.At the Denny Way entrance. 22. What does Pacific Science Center do for schools? A. Train science teache
7、rs.B. Distribute science books. C. Inspire scientific research.D. Take science to the classroom. 23. What is the purpose of the last part of the text? A. To encourage donations.B. To advertise coming events. C. To introduce special exhibits.D. To tell about the Centers history. B I work with Volunte
8、ers for Wildlife, a rescue and education organization at Bailey Arboretum in Locust Valley. Trying to help injured, displaced or sick creatures can be heartbreaking; survival is never certain. However, when it works, it is simply beautiful. I got a rescue call from a woman in Muttontown. She had fou
9、nd a young owl (猫头鹰) on the ground. When I arrived, I saw a 2-to 3-week-old owl. It had already been placed in a carrier for safety. I examined the chick (雏鸟) and it seemed fine. If I could locate the nest, I might have been able to put it back, but no luck. My next work was to construct a nest and
10、anchor it in a tree. The homeowner was very helpful. A wire basket was found. I put some pine branches into the basket to make this nest safe and comfortable. I placed the chick in the nest, and it quickly calmed down. Now all that was needed were the parents, but they were absent. I gave the homeow
11、ner a recording of the hunger screams of owl chicks. These advertise the presence of chicks to adults; they might also encourage our chick to start calling as well. I gave the owner as much information as possible and headed home to see what news the night might bring. A nervous night to be sure, bu
12、t sometimes the spirits of nature smile on us all! The homeowner called to say that the parents had responded to the recordings. I drove over and saw the chick in the nest looking healthy and active. And it was accompanied in the nest by the greatest sight of all LUNCH! The parents had done their du
13、ty and would probably continue to do so. 24. What is unavoidable in the authors rescue work according to paragraph 1? A. Efforts made in vain.B. Getting injured in his work. C. Feeling uncertain about his future.D. Creatures forced out of their homes. 25. Why was the author called to Muttontown? A.
14、To rescue a woman.B. To take care of a woman. C. To look at a baby owl.D. To cure a young owl. 26. What made the chick calm down? 第 2页（共 7页） A. A new nest.B. Some food.C. A recording.D. Its parents. 27. How would the author feel about the outcome of the event? A. Its unexpected.B. Its beautiful.C. I
15、ts humorous.D. Its discouraging. C Some of the worlds most famous musicians recently gathered in Paris and New Orleans to celebrate the first annual International Jazz Day. UNESCO( United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) recently set April 30 as a day to raise awareness of
16、jazz music, its significance, and its potential as a unifying (联合) voice across cultures. Despite the celebrations, though, in the U.S. the jazz audience continues to shrink and grow older, and the music has failed to connect with younger generations. Its Jason Morans job to help change that. As the
17、 Kennedy Centers artistic adviser for jazz, Moran hopes to widen the audience for jazz, make the music more accessible, and preserve its history and culture. “Jazz seems like its not really a part of the American appetite,” Moran tells National Public Radios reporter Neal Conan. “What Im hoping to a
18、ccomplish is that my generation and younger start to reconsider and understand that jazz is not black and write anymore. Its actually color, and its actually digital.” Moran says one of the problems with jazz today is that the entertainment aspect of the music has been lost. “The music cant be prese
19、nted today the way it was in 1908 or 1958. It has to continue to move, because the way the world works is not the same,” says Moran. Last year, Moran worked on a project that arranged Fats Wallers music for a dance party, “Just to kind of put it back in the mind that Waller is dance music as much as
20、 it is concert music,” says Moran. “For me, its the recontextualization. In music, where does the emotion (情感) lie? Are we, as humans, gaining any insight (感悟) on how to talk about ourselves and how something as abstract as a Charlie Parker record gets us into a dialogue about our emotions and our t
21、houghts? Sometimes we lose sight that the music has a wider context,” says Moran, “so I want to continue those dialogues. Those are the things I want to foster.” 28. Why did UNESCO set April 30 as International Jazz Day? A. To remember the birth of jazz. B. To protect cultural diversity. C. To encou
22、rage people to study music. D. To recognize the value of jazz. 29. What does the underlined word “that” in paragraph 3 refer to? A. Jazz becoming more accessible. B. The production of jazz growing faster. C. Jazz being less popular with the young. D. The jazz audience becoming larger. 30. What can w
23、e infer about Morans opinion on jazz? A. It will disappear gradually.B. It remains black and white. C. It should keep up with the times.D. It changes every 50 years. 31. Which of the following can be the best title for the text? A. Exploring the Future of Jazz.B. The Rise and Fall of Jazz. C. The St
24、ory of a Jazz Musician.D. Celebrating the Jazz Day. D Abuld-it-yourself solar still （蒸馏器） is one of the best ways to obtain drinking water in areas where the liquid is not readily available. Developed by two doctors in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, its an excellent water collector. Unfortunate
25、ly, you must carry the necessary equipment with you, since its all but impossible to find natural substitutes. The only components required, though, are a 55 sheet of clear or slightly milky plastic, six feet of plastic tube, and a container perhaps just a drinking cup to catch the water. These piec
26、es can be folded into a neat little pack and fastened on your belt. To construct a working still, use a sharp stick or rock to dig a hole four feet across and three feet deep. Try to make the hole in a damp area to increase the water catchers productivity. Place your cup in the deepest part of the h
27、ole. Then lay the tube in place so that one end rests all the way in the cup and the rest of the line runs up and out the side of the hole. Next, cover the hole with the plastic sheet, securing the edges of the plastic with dirt and weighting the sheets center down with a rock. The plastic should no
28、w form a cone (圆锥体) with 45-degree-angled sides. The low point of the sheet must be centered directly over, and no more than three inches above, the cup. The solar still works by creating a greenhouse under the plastic. Ground water evaporates (蒸发) and collects on the sheet until small drops of wate
29、r form, run down the material and fall off into the cup. When the container is full, you can suck the refreshment out through the tube, and wont have to break down the still every time you need a drink. 32. What do we know about the solar still equipment from the first paragraph? A. Its delicate.B.
30、Its expensive.C. Its complex.D. Its portable. 第 3页（共 7页） 33. What does the underlined phrase “the water catcher” in paragraph 2 refer to? A. The tube.B. The still.C. The hole.D. The cup. 34. Whats the last step of constructing a working solar still? A. Dig a hole of a certain size.B. Put the cup in
31、place. C. Weight the sheets center down.D. Cover the hole with the plastic sheet. 35. When a solar still works, drops of water come into the cup form. A. the plastic tubeB. outside the hole C. the open airD. beneath the sheet 第二节(共 5 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 10 分) 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 If a
32、nyone had told me three years ago that I would be spending most of my weekends camping. I would have laughed heartily. Campers, in my eyes, were people who enjoyed insect bites, ill-cooked meals, and uncomfortable sleeping bags. They had nothing in common with me.36. The friends who introduced me to
33、 camping thought that it meant to be a pioneer.37We sleep in a tent, cooked over an open fire, and walked a long distance to take the shower and use the bathroom. This brief visit with Mother Nature cost me two days off from work, recovering from a bad case of sunburn and the doctors bill for my son
34、s food poisoning. I was, nevertheless, talked into going on another fun-filled holiday in the wilderness.38Instead, we had a pop-up camper with comfortable beds and an air conditioner. My nature-loving friends had remembered to bring all the necessities of life. 39We have done a lot of it since. Rec
35、ently, we bought a twenty-eight-foot travel trailer complete with a bathroom and a built-in TV set. There is a separate bedroom, a modern kitchen with a refrigerator. The trailer even has matching carpet and curtains. 40It must be true that sooner or later, everyone finds his or her way back to natu
36、re. I recommend that you find your way in style. A. This time there was no tent. B. Things are going to be improved. C. The trip they took me on was a rough one. D. I was to learn a lot about camping since then, however. E. I must say that I have certainly come to enjoy camping. F.After the trip, my
37、 family became quite interested in camping. G. There was no shade as the trees were no more than 3 feet tall. 第三部分语言知识运用第三部分语言知识运用(共两节，满分共两节，满分 45 分分) 第一节完形填空(共 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分) 阅读下面的短文，从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C 和 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。 While high school does not generally encourage stud
38、ents to explore new aspects of life, college sets the stage for that exploration. I myself went through this41process and found something that has changed my42at college for the better: I discovered ASL-American Sign Language (美式手语). I never felt an urge to43any sign language before. My entire famil
39、y is hearing, and so are all my friends. The44languages were enough in all my interactions (交往). Little did I know that I would discover my45forASL. The46began during my first week at college. I watched as the ASL Club47their translation of a song. Both the hand movements and the very48of communicat
40、ing without speaking 49me. What I saw was completely unlike anything I had experienced in the50. This newness just left me51more. After that, feeling the need to52further, I decided to drop in on one of ASL clubs meetings. I only learned how to53the alphabet that day. Yet instead of being discourage
41、d by my54 progress, I was excited. I then made it a point to55those meetings and learn all I could. The following term, I56an ASL class. The professor was deaf and any talking was57. I soon realized that the silence was not unpleasant.58, if there had been any talking, it would have 59us to learn le
42、ss. Now, I appreciate the silence and the60way of communication it opens. 41.A. searchingB. planningC. naturalD. formal 42.A. progressB. experienceC. majorD. opinion 43.A. chooseB. readC. learnD. create 44.A. officialB. foreignC. bodyD. spoken 45.A. loveB. concernC. goalD. request 46.A. meetingB. tr
43、ipC. storyD. task 47.A. recordedB. performedC. recitedD. discussed 第 4页（共 7页） 48. A. ideaB. amountC. dreamD. reason 49. A. disturbedB. supportedC. embarrassedD. attracted 50. A. endB. pastC. courseD. distance 51. A. showingB. actingC. sayingD. wanting 52. A. exerciseB. exploreC. expressD. explain 53
44、. A. printB. writeC. signD. count 54. A. slowB. steadyC. normalD. obvious 55. A. chairB. sponsorC. attendD. organize 56. A. missedB. passedC. gave upD. registered for 57. A. prohibitedB. welcomedC. ignoredD. repeated 58. A. LastlyB. ThusC. InsteadD. However 59. A. requiredB. causedC. allowedD. expec
45、ted 60. A. easyB. popularC. quickD. new 第二节(共 10 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分) 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入 1 个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。 There has been a recent trend in the food service industry toward lower fat content and less salt. This trend, which was started by the medical community（医学界）61a method of fighting heart disease
46、, has had some unintended side62(effect) such as overweight and heart disease-the very thing the medical community was trying to fight. Fat and salt are very important parts of a diet. They are required63(process) the food that we eat, to recover from injury and for several other bodily functions. W
47、hen fat and salt64(remove) from food, the food tastes as if is missing something. As65result, people will eat more food to try to make up for that something missing. Even66(bad), the amount of fast food that people eat goes up. Fast food 67(be) full of fat and salt; by68(eat) more fast food people w
48、ill get more salt and fat than they need in their diet. Having enough fat and salt in your meals will reduce the urge to snack (吃点心) between meals and will improve the taste of your food. However, be69(care) not to go to extremes. Like anything, it is possible to have too much of both,70is not good
49、for the health. 第四部分写作第四部分写作(共两节，满分共两节，满分 35 分分) 第一节短文改错(共 10 小题；每小题 l 分，满分 10 分) 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有 10 处 语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。 增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号()，并在其下面写出该加的词。 删除：把多余的词用斜线()划掉。 修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。 注意： 1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词； 2. 只允许修改 10 处，多者(从第 11 处起)不计分。 In the summer holiday following my eighteen birthday, I took driving lessons. I still remember how hard first day was. Before getting into the car, I thought I had learned the instructors orders, so once I started the car, my mind goes blank.
