1、 顺德区顺德区 20202020 届高三第四次模拟考试届高三第四次模拟考试 英英 语语 注意事项：注意事项： 1.答题前， 考生务必将自己的姓名、 准考证号填写在本试卷相应的位置。 因测试不考听力， 试卷从第二部分的“阅读理解”开始，试题序号从“21”开始。 2.全部答案在答题卡上完成,答在本试卷上无效。 3.回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用 2B 铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。 如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案用 0.5mm 黑色笔迹签字笔写在答题卡上。 4.考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。 第二部分第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，満分阅读理解
2、（共两节，満分 4040 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。 A A Weve prepared several destinations selected from four Asian countries for your adventure. Check them out: MongoliaMongolia Hardly anyone visits the country, and most people arent aware of the amazing potential i
3、t has. Head to Mongolias best-known national park, Terelji. Here, you can spend a night in a traditional tent 9 watch performances of archery （射箭）or enjoy outdoor adventures from bird-watching to hiking and climbing or horseback riding through grassy steppes and forest-covered mountains. IndonesiaIn
4、donesia With the chance for world-class diving* to visit the worlds biggest Buddhist temple,and to see amazing wildlife, Indonesia is a must-visit* A must-visit for anyone in Indonesia is Mount Ijen. Its in East Java, the highest point of which is home to the most active volcano in the country, Moun
5、t Merapi. But the spot we recommend you visit is the Blue Fire Crater. MalaysiaMalaysia Want to achieve something great on your next Asian adventure? You should consider climbing one of the highest mountains in Southeast Asia. Kinabalu National Park in Malaysia is home to Mount Kinabalu, the mountai
6、n that around 40,000 people from all around the world go to climb every year. The journey normally takes two days. ChinaChina In Shaanxi province of the country lies the world s most dangerous hiking trail （路线）.Its up Mount Huashan, which is only 2,155m high. But the dangerous part is not the top, b
7、ut the narrow, wooden boards you have to climb up to reach the top. Theyre fixed onto the mountainside in a way that doesnt look very secure. Nevertheless, many adventurers try and take a hair-raising picture as they climb up. 21.Where can tourists have access to local life? A.Terelji. B. Kinabalu N
8、ational Park. C.Mount Ijen. D. Mount Huashan. 22.What is special about Mount Huashan? A.It is very high. B.It has an amazing scenery. C.It is perfect for taking pictures. D.It has the most dangerous route. 23.What do all the destinations have in common? A.They are all easy to reach. B.They are all f
9、rom African countries* C.They are in mountainous areas. D.They all offer chances for diving. B B This centuries-old town of stone homes could be any rural （农村的） village in Europe. It reached its maximum population at around the turn of the last century, and since then it has slowly emptied until, in
10、 2007, its public school finally shut its doors. “They say when a town loses its school it loses its soul,”says the governor of St. -Pierre-de-Frugie ? Gilbert Chabaud，who was elected to office the following year. After the villages only restaurant closed too, Gilbert took up his post with a central
11、 question, “What can we do to make it come back to life, to make people come here?“ Gilbert, who himself left St. -Pierre-de-Frugie to work in the automobile industry before retiring, found his answer in sustainability （可持续发展）.He opened up a store for local producers to sell their vegetables which w
12、ere grown without using any artificial chemicals. He opened a community （社区）garden and ongoing ecological workshops that encourage knowledge-sharing among the community. He has a businessmans knowledge： he is making use of the idea shared across the West* by many people looking for an alternative to
13、 the high-pace urban life. And after the rapid urbanization of the 1950s and 1960s left many villages across Europe abandoned or only partially used, a mini urban-to-rural flow is under way. Since taking office, 40 new people have moved here 一 most of them from the cities? bringing the population up
14、 to 400. Last year a new school opened in the village. Gilbert is eyeing a bigger place for a new school. Just a few months ago, lulia Timofticiuc and her partner Guillaume Bled were living in Paris. They were concerned about global environment and at a more micro level about what foods they were co
15、nsuming and where they were coming from.“We wanted to live lighter, be productive, and be autonomous,”Timofticiuc says. But they didnt just want to go anywhere. They wanted to go where things were already happening. So they chose St. -Pierre-de-Frugie. 24.What can we learn about the village St. Pier
16、re-de-Frugie? A.Its population began to rise at the turn of the 20th century. B.Its public school was closed for lack of students. C.It used to be a popular rural village in Europe. D.It became completely empty in 2007. 25.What did Gilbert do to help his hometown? A.He quit his job to lead the villa
17、ge. B.He sold green vegetables to local settlers. C.He increased peoples ecological awareness. D.He encouraged people to share their harvest. 26.Why did lulia Timofticiuc choose St.-Pierre-de-Frugie? A.It allows people to grow their own food. B.It has done a lot to be eco-friendly. C.It is less crow
18、ded. D.It is autonomous. 27.Which section of a newspaper is the text probably taken from? A.History. B. Culture. C. Education. D. Society. C C Luis Reynoso says hes always tried to get involved（牵涉）in his childrens education:attending meetings on school-improvement projects and providing classroom fo
19、od. But when his youngest daughters school invited families to attend a nine-week program Lets Change the Course ? organized by a leading education advocacy group here ? to learn about parenting and school participation, he realized his past efforts barely scratched the surface. Each weekly session
20、touched on different parenting themes, like setting up a special space at home for kids to do homework, like the importance of confidence. One of the most helpful sessions, he recalls, focused on what a child should know academically in each grade and how to talk to teachers about his daughters perf
21、ormance. “The workshops really woke me up,”says Mr. Reynoso. Levels of parental participation in Mexican schools have long been low. Many people commonly believe a childs education is the school s job to get involved. In some parts of the country, a mothers or fathers own lack of education can play
22、into a sense that they have nothing to contribute. And even in private schools? where there might be more adults with fixed jobs9 participation is very rare, with some parents viewing their tuition（学费）bill as their educational contribution. There are also cases where the schools themselves ignore th
23、e potential of parents in a childs education, discouraging communication between families and schools. But the importance of family participation is something many non-profit，education advocates and recently the government are starting to home in on Mexico. Part of Mexicos 2013 national education re
24、form stresses the importance of parents playing a more active role in their childs education, encouraging an increase in parental-participation programs, including Let s Change the Course. Susana Castellanos, headmaster of a school in Mexico City, says, “People are recognizing you have to work toget
25、her to create happy9 successful citizens. Its no longer acceptable to set apart the roles of teacher vs. parent vs. school headmaster.” 28.What does Reynoso mean by the underlined sentence in Paragraph 1? A.His previous efforts were in vain. B.He missed the key point of participation. C.His daughter
26、 disagreed with what he did. D.He failed to catch the importance of school, 29.What did Reynoso find most beneficial about Lets Change the Course? A.The necessity to set up a space for kids to do homework. B.The academic requirements for kids in different periods. C.The importance of knowing childre
27、ns performance. D.The ways to increase students confidence. 30.What is the main idea of Paragraph 3? A.How to contribute more to childrens education. B.How to know the levels of parental participation in Mexican schools. C.Why schools failed to provide chances for parents to get involved, D.Why pare
28、nts played a less active role in school education in Mexico. 31.What influence did Mexico s education reform have? A.The number of parental-participation programs rose. B.Many non-profit educational organizations were set up. C.Teachers role in school education started to get increased. D.Parents be
29、gan to attach importance to childrens education. D D By analyzing the movement of the smile across a persons face, the software developed by researchers at the University of Bradford can determine whether or not the expression is true. The most significant movements detected by the software were aro
30、und the eyes, supporting popular theories that a true smile is one that can be seen in a persons eyes. “A smile is perhaps the most common of facial expressions and is a powerful way of signaling positive emotions（情绪）”says Hassan Ugail, Professor of Visual Computing at the University of Bradford ? w
31、ho led the research.“Techniques for analyzing human facial expressions have advanced a lot in recent years but distinguishing between true and false smiles remains a challenge because humans are not good at picking up the relevant messages.” The software works by first mapping a persons face from wi
32、thin a video recording, and identifying the mouth, cheeks and eyes of the subject. It then measures how they move through the progress of the smile and calculates the differences in movement between the video pieces showing true and false smiles. They found significant differences in the way the sub
33、jects mouths and cheeks moved when comparing the true and the false expressions. The movements around the subjects eyes, however showed the most striking difference, with true smiles producing at least 10 percent more movement in these muscles（肌肉）. “We use two main sets of muscles when we smile 一 th
34、e zygomaticus major, which is responsible for the movements upwards of the mouth and the orbicularis oculi ? which causes movements around our eyes,”explains Professor Ugail. In false smiles it is often only the mouth muscles that move but, as humans we often dont spot the lack of movement around th
35、e eyes. He adds,“An objective way of analyzing whether or not a smile is true could help us develop improved interactions（互动）between computers and humans. It could also be important to scientists aiming to gain more understanding into human behavior and emotion.” 32.Why is it hard for humans to reco
36、gnize a false smile? A.Humans are good at hiding their smiles. B.The relevant details are hard to catch for our eyes. C.Humans often put on too many facial expressions. D.Techniques for analyzing facial expressions are hard to develop. 33.What do the researchers find by the software? A.People usuall
37、y use two main sets of muscles when smiling. B.True smiles produce more muscle movement around eyes. C.Mouths and cheeks move the same for true and false smiles. D.True smiles are a powerful way of signaling positive emotions. 34.What can we infer from Professor Hassan Ugail? A.There are different s
38、ets of muscles on every humans face* B.The software can improve humans behavior and emotion. C.Humans can spot the movement around the eyes in true smiles. D.The interactions between computers and humans remain to be improved* 35.What is the best title for the text? A.Eyes Can Smile B.Smiles Can Sho
39、w Ones Personality C.More Smiles, Longer lives D.True Smiles, False Movements 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。 Successful budgeting is a key to good financial health and it really isnt hard. These steps will help create a realistic and successful budget: List yo
40、ur expenses. Make a list of your fixed expenses such as rent payments and insurance payments.Then make a list of your fluctuating（波动的）expenses ? such as expenses for dining out, hobbies, and other expenses that dont have a consistent payment. 36 Separate your wants and needs. 37 This is especially i
41、mportant to successfully budgeting to pay off debts or save money toward a specific goal. Any place where you see youre clearly wasting money? get rid of it. Consider buying budgeting software. Part of the reason you do this is, of course? for guidance in successful budgeting. 38 Another part of it,
42、 though, is psychological. By investing（投资）in budgeting software, you mean business when it comes to your budget and saving goals. 39 For the most successful budgeting possible, everyone in your family needs to know and understand the budget. It wont do any good to create a budget if your husband or
43、 wife isnt aware of it and continues to spend money in ways you havent planned for. 40 They need to know that there are limits to how much money they can spend. So the earlier you get them started, the better. A.Get your family on board. B.Make sure your expectations are realistic. C.This is not fun
44、damental to successful budgeting. D.And its never too early for kids to develop money skills. E.Check those lists you have made for costs you can cut or avoid. F.Review old bank statements to help you calculate approximate figures for these expenses. G.It helps you understand the expenses categories
45、 and map out plans for successful budgeting. 第三部分第三部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分语言知识运用（共两节，满分 4545 分）分） 第一节（共 20 小题；每小题 1. 5 分，满分 30 分） 阅读下面短文，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。 Last February I turned 51. And to be honest, it didnt make me jump with 41 . Of course, I still 42 the face in the mirror. But
46、it certainly didnt 43 my inner me anymore. There are many 44 about age-enthusiasts who 45 a whole new job ? accomplished extraordinary achievements or trained to run a marathon. 46 they didnt quite inspire me. It only 47 me even more. Until, three weeks ago, I came across Face App. The app has 48 my
47、 husband to an 88-year-old man, wow! My husband took my picture and put it into the app. It caught my 49 and showed an 88-year-old version of me with deeper 50 . My teeth were shorter. My neck was seriously sagging （松弛）.I 51 the picture with such a sharp eye that it 52 burnt a hole through the scree
48、n. But then I zoomed out and looked at the 53 picture.I saw softness on the cheeks；the comfort of a warm smile； a look with a lifetime of extremely rich 54 .That night I shared both my present and 55 me on Facebook. My friends seemed to 56 the old me. “I think you look pretty cool,” one commented. A
49、gain I studied the older face carefully. Suddenly I felt I 57 back at that older lady who might be me. I havent run a marathon or started a new cool job. My jump forwards is a purely emotional 58 .Ive opened a door within myself and behind it 59 appreciation and love for myself, regardless of my 60 . Now, when I see myself in the mirror, Im sincerely pleased. 41. A. wonder B. caution C. joy D. regret 42. A. remembered B. recognized C. missed D. preferred 43. A. reflect B. hide
