2017年广州二模英语试题及答案0001

第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

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Many people would love to leave their jobs behind and have a life-ch a nging adve nture overseas. They imagine lying un der palm trees as the sun goes down. However, life overseas is not always easy, and manyare not prepared for the shock of living in an alien culture.

The honeymoon period

At first, for those who actually decide to move abroad, life is an exciting adventure. They enjoy exploring their new surroundings, and life seems like an extended holiday. They don ' t mind trying the local cuisine and discovering the local culture. They can even afford to practice their foreign-language skills without fear of making mistakes.

Trouble in paradise

In many cases, when people consider moving to another country, they often fail to realize how different life will be. As time goes by, they become frustrated when Ianguage and cultural misunderstaridings become a daily headache. In this stage, the visitors begin to withdraw from life in the host country and avoid spending time with local people in favor of mixing with others from their own cultural background.

The road to recovery

Gradually, most visitors realize they must accept the differences and not fight against them. This change encourages them to improve their Ian guage skills and slowly they man age to do the things they could easily do at home, such as ope ning a bank acco unt. This n ew-fo und con fide nee enables them to see a side of life which very few tourists get to witness.

Adjusting to life abroad can often be a real problem. The secret to overcoming it is to stop trying to change your host country: you will not succeed. If not, you risk losing your dream and having to return to the

old life you wanted to leave behind.

21. Why do people moving abroad feel excited at first?

A. They find foreign living much easier.

B. They have the necessary Ianguage skills.

C. They love the adventure and exploration.

D. They enjoy meeting people from different cultures.

22. According to the author, what is the main problem many people moving

abroad face?

A. Homesickness.

B. Culture shock

C. Health problems.

D. Lack of employment.

23. What would the author suggest people moving abroad do?

A. Study the local language.

B. Go on holidays frequently.

C. Learn how to open a bank account.

D. Seek out people from their home country.

B

Australia loves interesting money. In 1988, it was the first country to replace paper moneywith special plastic banknotes. Nowit ' s introduced a new five-dollar bill so tech no logically adva need that many experts are calling it the money of the future!

At first glance, the new note looks much like the old one. It has the same pink colour and main pictures on the front and back. But look closer, and you will notice a clear window running down the middle, surrounded by images of the yellow Prickly Moses, a type of Australian plant.

Tilt （使倾斜）the note a little and you will see the Eastern Spinebill,

an Australian bird, beating its wings as if trying to fly away. Turn the bill from side to side, and you will notice the picture of a small building at the bottom of the note spins, and the image of “ 5” changes position. While these moveable features are impressive and entertaining, that was not the reason Australian government officials spent ten years developing them. Their primary purpose was to make it impossible for criminals to produce their own fake notes.

The newfive-dollar note also has something to help blind people easily identify the money. It has a raised bump alongside the top and bottom, enabling blind people to quickly determine its value.

The credit for persuading the Australian government to add this

all-important bump goes to 15-year-old Connor McLeod. The blind Sydney teenager came up with the idea in 2014 after being unable to tell how much money he had

received for Christmas. Connor says he was so embarrassed at not being able to see the differenee between notes that he only carried coins to pay for food at the school cafeteria. To convince the government officials of his idea, Connor started a website that got huge public atte ntion.

The government will add this feature to the new $10 bill which comes out in late 2017, as well as the update 420, $50, and $100 bills that are still being designed.

24. Which picture does NOT move when the banknote is tilted?

A. The bird.

B. The number.

C. The plants.

D. The building.

25. What was the main reason the Australian government created the new banknote?

A. To make the note more difficult to copy.

B. To show the country ' s adva need tech no logy.

C. To help blind people more easily use money.

D. To make the note ' s appearanee more attractive.

26. What can we guess about Australian coins?

A. They are different in size or shape.

B. They are required in school cafeterias.

C. They are more frequently used than notes.

D. They are more convenient for young people.

27. What did Connor do to persuade the government?

A. He wrote a letter to the leaders.

B. He organized an online

meeti ng.

C. He sought support on the Internet.

D. He requested a special Christmas gift.

C

At this year' s Tech no logy Forum, speakers i nclude world-famous people, such as Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer, and lesser-known individuals with great ideas to changethe world. Oneof the latter is Jonny

Cohe n, a high school senior, gree n busi nessma n and creator of

Greee nShields.

Since Cohen was a child, he has been innovating and inventing. When he was 12 and took scienee classes at Northwestern University, he saw a school bus and had an idea: what if the shape of school bus was improved to make it more fuel efficient? This would greatly reduce the amount of pollution it produced. He set about making a wind tunnel in his parents '

garage and placed small metal plates or shields on toy school buses to test them. The result: his shields redirected the airflow over and around the bus, decreased wind drag, and produced better fuel economy and less pollutio n.

Cohen went through various experiments to improve his GreenShields invention with the help of MIT a nd Cook-lllionis Bus Compa ny .which d on ated

a full-sized bus for Cohen ' s experiments, he now has a shield model that

is inexpensive and easy to attach, enabling widespread adoption.

How much of an impact can these shields have on climate change? Fuel con sumptio n for the average US school bus is seve n miles per gall on. Gree nShields in creases fuel efficie ncy by 10-20%, savi ng about $600 per bus per year, and costs only $30 to attach. Cohenand his partners are now trying to persuade the government to put GreenShields on all school buses.

With almost half-a-million school buses in America using nearly

$ billion of fuel per year, a consumption reduction of 10-20% would make a big differenee in pollution. Not to mention the roughly $ 285 million in annual savings on fuel.

28. What can we learn about Jonny Cohen from the text?

A. He has produced GreenShields independently.

B. He has been employed to improve school buses.

C. He is a world-famous businessman and inventor.

D. He has a tale nt for finding and solving problems.

29. How does GreenShields make a bus more fuel efficient?

A. By red u ci ng the amount of wind drag.

B. By improving the quality of fuel used.

C. By providing a wind tunnel for the bus.

D. By changing the shape of the bus engine.

30. Where did Cohen begin testing his shields?

A. At Northwester n Un iversity.

B. I n his pare nts garage.

C. At a local bus compa ny.

D. In an MIT lab.

31. What ' s the inten ded ben efit of Cohe n ' s inven tio n?

A. To provide school buses with cheaper fuel.

B. To reduce the cost of produci ng school buses.

C. To in crease the profits of the school bus in dustry.

D. To make school buses more en vir onmen tally-frie ndly.

D

We all know the feeli ng: look ing at the computer scree n, prete nding to be interested in our homework, even though we really feel bored. But such feeli ngs may soon be at an end, says Dr Harry Witchel, head of the Essex Medical School. He believes that computers of the future will notice whe n people feel bored and eve n take acti on to stop iL.

Before you get concerned, the machine won ' t be reading your mind. It will be observing the manymovementsyou makewhile using a computer. It ' s not interested in the big movements needed to use the machine—like moving a mouse or touching a screen ----------------------------------------------------- but small, barely noticeable movementslike closing your eyes , moving in your seat or rubbing your face. Witchel calls these “ boredom moveme nt￡ and says they show how in terested the person is in what they are reading or watching. The higher the interest level, the less moveme nt!

To test his theory, Witchel in vited 27 people to perform various computer-based task. The activities ran ged from playi ng on li ne games （an in terest ing task） to readi ng docume nts like gover nment laws that most people would find bori ng.

A special video camera followed the participants ' movements as they completed each task. Just as the researcher expected, the “boredom movement? greatly decreased, by as much as 42%, when the subjects were very interested in what they were reading or seeing.

Fortunately, Dr Witchel isn ' t planning to use his results to create

machi nes that report stude nts who are not pay ing atte nti on at school. In stead, he wants “ moveme ntse nsing ” tech no logy to be built into future computers in order to improve students ' computer-based learning experie nee.

The scientist says that by measuring the students ' interest level as they work, educators will be able to adjust their materials in real-time to keep stude nts focused. Witchel also believes that the tech no logy can provide filmmakers with honest audience opinions and in the future, help to develop more in tellige nt robots.

32. What does the underlined word “ it ” in Paragraph 1 refer to?

A. Homework.

B. A computer.

C. Boredom.

D. The future.

33. Why did Dr Witchel carry out his research?

A. To discover how bored people move.

B. To find out what makes people bored.

C. To see if in terested people are more active.

D. To test the link betwee n boredom and moveme nt.

34. Which moveme nt would Witchel ' s tech no logy most likely pay atte nti on to?

A. Turning off the mach ine.

B. Typing words on a keyboard.

C. Surfing quickly betwee n webpages.

D. Moving one ' s head from side to side.

35. How will the new tech no logy help educati on, accord ing to Witchel?

A. By reducing teachers ' workload.

B. By mai nta ining stude nts ' lear ning in terest.

C. By report ing stude nts ' misbehavior in class.

D. By mak ing learni ng more like a computer game.

第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，葱段问候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。

Philadelphia is a city known for many things. It is where the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, and it was also the first capital of the United States. __________________ 36 It is home to nearly 3, 000

murals （壁画）pain ted on the sides of homesa nd buildi ngs around the city. That' s more murals than any other city on Earth. 37 _________ More tha n 20 years ago, a New Jersey artist n amed Jane Golde n started a program pairing troubled youth with artists to paint murals on a few build ings around the city. 38 The teenagers invo Ived helped to create magnificent pieces of art, and there were other, even more important, ben efits. The young people lear ned to cooperate and get along with many

different kinds of people during the painting. They learned to be

resp on sible, because they n eeded to follow a schedule to make sure the murals

were completed. 39 ____ It is hard for anyone to see the spectacular desig ns and not feel proud to be a part of Philadelphia.

Take a walk around some of the poorest n eighborhoods in Philadelphia

and you will find beautiful works of art on the sides and fronts of buildings. Of course the murals are not just in poor n eighborhoods, but richer ones as well. Special buses take tourists to different parts of the city to see the various murals, which show the diverse ethnic groups that call Philadelphia home.

40 It is also a model for other cities throughout America

seek ing to help troubled youth.

A. How did this come to be?

B. What happened to the murals on Earth?

C. They also learned to take pride in their community.

D. But one fact about Philadelphia is not so well-known.

E. From this small project, something magical happened.

F. The program encouraged troubled youth to paint together with their teachers.

G. As a result of its success, the mural program has nowbecomethe nation ' s largest public art program.

第三部分英语知识应用（共两节，满分45分）

第一节完形填空（共20小题；每小题分，满分30分）

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When you give tha nks for help, every one ben efits. And the ____ 41 will last Ion ger tha n you' d expect: researchers have foun ded that writi ng than k-you no tes raises people ' s 42 levels for up to six mon ths.

“ If you express gratitude in a diary, it makes you happier, but if

you 43 it with the pers on who helped you, it has the 44 to _________________ bring you two closer together, ” says researcher Jeff Tsang.

Lawyer Joh n Karlik experie need this pers on ally. He ' d bee n feeli ng depressed and 45 about his life: He ' d been divorced and wasn ' t 46 with his children. He felt tired from the 47 hours he devoted

to work. At a/an 48 low point, he rememberedhis grandfather telling

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Immediately, he no ticed his 51 begin to improve. “ The first

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53 ____ by Kralik ' s experienee, I decided to try the ________________ 54

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In the West we are familiar with ballets like Swan Lake. But there ' s another classical dance form with a long history 61 has only recently burst onto the world scene. It is called classical Chinese dance.

Classical Chin ese dance is 62 incredibly dema nding, refi ned, and expressive dance form. Alon gside ballet, it is also one of the most comprehe nsive dance systems 63 (know) to huma nkind.

64 _____ recently, few people outside China had ever heard of

classical Chinese dance. One major reason was that when Chinese companies performed abroad, they often mixed Chinese dance with western dance styles.

And so the audie nee left the theater not sure exactly 65 they had just see n.

In 2006, however, the Shen Yun Performing Arts Company ______ 66 (establish) in New York. Its missi on was to promote 67 (tradition) culture, and this included 68 (present) classical Chinese dance in its purest form. Not quite a decade later, classical Chinese dance has become much 69 (well) recog ni zed and is starti ng to in flue nee wester n ballet.

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第四部分写作(共两节，满分35分)

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2020年广州中考英语试题及答案

2020年广州中考英语试题及答案 本试卷共四大题，12页，满分110分。考试时间120分钟。 一、语法选择（共15小题：每小题1分，满分15分） 阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，从1?15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中 选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 Deep in the forest lives David, who loves books. As soon as he reads one book, he brings home 1 . Soon the house 2 . books. His wife, Alice, is angry. You 3 .do something!” David thinks hard and has 4 . idea. “I can bring my books into the faraway hills and share 5 .I have with the children.” Every week, David sets off across the countryside to faraway villages with his two donkeys. Early 6 a sunny morning, David and his donkeys stop at a river 7 .Then, from deep in the shadows, a bandit (山贼）jumps out! “P l ease let us pass,” David says. “The children 8 .”The bandit takes one book and shouts, “Next time I want 9 !” They move on until at last, David sees some houses below. The children run to meet 10 .David reads them a story first. 11 the story ends, it's time for everyone to choose a book. The children hold their books close as they say good-bye and run home 12 . David and his donkeys head back, over and around the hills, and into the sunset. At home, Alice feeds her hungry husband and the donkeys. But then, instead of 13 ,David picks up his book, 14 reads deep into the night. And far away in the hills, candles and lanterns bum as the children read borrowed books deep into their night, 15 . 1. A. other B. another C. the other D. the others 2. A. fills with B. filled with C. is filled with D. was filled with 3. A. must B. could C. would D. may

【英语】广东省2018届高三第一次模拟考试英语试题 含答案

2018年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试 广东省英语模拟试卷(一) 第Ⅰ卷 第二部分阅读理解(共两节,满分40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 Nightlife Downtown Crested Butte is home to some fun adventure nightlife! With many different options for enjoying a night, you're sure to have a great time! Enjoy the free bus system between the mountain and town to get around Kids Night Out On vacation, kids and parents deserve a special night out. But sometimes, what's special for the kids isn't quite what you have in mind. We created Kids Night Out so you can all havet he night you're looking for. Our fun-loving kid’s instructors host your kids for a visit to the Adventure Park, followed by dinner and games while you head out of the town. Ages 8-12 are welcome,$75 per child. Kids' Night Out takes place nightly in the coldest days. Majestic Fun It is small and personal and it offers a wide range of movies, from new releases to classics, action etc. All natural snacks and alcoholic drinks are available. For movie show times and more information, call 970-349-8955 or visit our website. Princess Wine Bar Escape the ordinary and experience the Princess Wine Bar In downtown Crested Butte. Enjoy the coffeehouse featuring Belgian snacks, baked eggs, apple-wood smoked bacon, and coffee drinks. Live entertainment makes the Princess Wine Bar the perfect choice. Open daily from 8: 00 pm to midnight, but advance reservations are required. For more information you can call970-3490210. Talk of the Town If you are looking for a good time, the Talk offers football, pinball, video games,

茂名市2020年高三第二次综合测试英语试题及答案

茂名市2020年高三第二次综合测试 英语试卷 第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40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 There are many reasons to choose a career. Talent ranks highly, as does interest- and of course, you need to get paid enough money to live on. For some, their career path is also guided by a sense of altruism （利他主义）. They are looking for a job where they can make a difference in their communities and the world. There are some jobs here for every altruistic soul. Occupational Therapist（疗法专家） People with this job help patients young and old improve the sill they need for everyday living. Patients might be children on the autism（自闭症），mature adults recovering from physical illness or injury, and everyone in between. This job requires a master’s degree and profes sional license. Median Annual Salary：$65，185 Job Outlook（2016-26）：24 percent growth Dietitian Dietitians advise clients on healthy eating with a variety of goals，from supporting medical treatment, weight loss to managing illnesses like diabetes（糖尿病）.Dietitians typically have a bachelor's degree, and their pay may rise with specific skill sets. Median Annual Salary：$51，982 Job Outlook（2016-26）：15 percent growth Registered Nurse Nurses provide patient care in a variety of in-patient and out-patient settings, including hospitals, doctor’s offices, clinics, and patients' homes. They also help care and educate patients and their families about health and disease management. Many hospitals now require bachelor's degrees for their nurses. All registered nurses must be licensed. Median Annual Salary：$62，962 Job Outlook（2016-26）：15 percent growth Doctor Physicians and surgeons obviously make a real difference in patients' lives and contribute to the health of the community at large. They also get paid well：depending on their specialty, they can earn well over $200,000 a year. On the other hand, they may need that money to pay off their school fees: doctors undergo nine years or more of post- secondary education and training. Median Annual Salary：$140,506

广州二模英语试题

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