2017年高考南京市、盐城市第二次模拟考试英语试卷

南京市、盐城市2017届高三年级第二次模拟考试英语

本试卷分选择题和非选择题两部分。满分120分，考试用时120分钟。

注意事项:

答题前，考生务必将自己的学校、姓名、考试号写在答题纸上。考试结束后，将答题纸交回.

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。录音内容姑束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题纸上。

第一节(共5小题，每小题一分，满分5分)

听下面5段对话，每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所恰的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选顶，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。

I. What are the speakers talking about?

A. Buying DVDs.

B. Renting DVDs.

C. Sharing DVDs

2. What does the woman mean?

A. She will help the man later.

B. She is unwilling to help the man.

C. She can't be of any assistance.

3. Where does the conversation most probably take place?

A. In Henry's house.

B. In a restaurant.

C. In a hospital.

4. What is the probable relationship between Fred and Anne?

A. Boss and secretary.

B. Husband and wife.

C. Teacher and student.

S. How did Tom go to London?

A. By car.

B. By plane.

C. By train.

第二节(共15小题，每小题一分，满分15分)

听下面5段对话，每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所恰的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选顶，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话成独白前，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秒钟的做答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6.、7题。

6. What does the woman dislike?

A. Exhibitions.

B. Folk concerts

C. Pop concerts.

7. What does the woman think of the opera?

A. Fantastic.

B. Serious.

C. Noisy.

听第7段材料，回答第8. 至10题。

8. What is the topic of the man's term paper?

A. Influence of presidential elections.

B. Methods of digging for information.

C. Influence of TV on presidential elections.

9. Why does the man come to the graduate school's library?

A. To return books.

B. To search for information.

C. To apply for a job as a librarian.

10. What can the man do according to the librarian?

A. Use the computer to search.

B. Check out the outside materials.-

C. Obtain materials from around the world.

听第8段材料，回答第11 至13题。

11. How much does the man pay for car insurance a month?

A. $25.

B. $50.

C. $100.

12. What is the woman's point in the conversation?

A. The man is a great driver.

B. She seldom uses her car.

C. Women are more careful drivers.

13. How many accidents has the woman been in this past year!

A. Zero.

B. Two.

C. Five.

听第9段材料，回答第14 至16题。

14. Which is the second largest ethnic group in San Francisco?

A. The Chinese.

B. The whites.

C. The blacks.

IS. What is the Japanese population in San Francisco?

A. 12,000.

B. 120,000.

C. 800.000.

16. What does the man do?

A. A driver.

B. A teacher.

C. A guide,

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What is the speaker mainly talking about?

A. A search engine.

B. A program for teachers.

C. A language learning platform.

18. Where is Luis von Ahn from?

A. Switzerland

B. Guatemala.

C. Costa Rica.

19. Why did Luis von Alto create Doulingo?

A. To make language learning affordable.

B. To make money by placing advertisements.

C. To arouse people's interest in translation.

20. How was Duolingo originally funded?

A. By big websites.

B. By the government.

C. By schools.

第二部分英语知识运用(共两节，满分35分)

第一节单项填空(共15小妞:每小题1分，满分!5分)

请认真阅读下面各题，从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选顶中，选出最佳选项。并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。

21. With private groups, there is a false sense______ everybody in the groups knows each other and has the same interests in mind.

A. where

B. that

C. what

D. why

22.-In the UK, some people equate life experience with the number of stamps in their passports.

-That's why they all agree that they_____the "travel bug".

A. catch

B. caught

C. have caught

D. are to catch

23. Is it common practice that salesmen receive a ________of 10 percent on all sales made?

A. deposit

B. receipt

C. pension

D. commission

24. The number of stay-at-home fathers reached a record high last year, new figures show. ________.families saw a rise in female breadwinners.

A. if

B. as

C. because

D. though

25. Our dream is to______ a World Cup that makes you, your grandchildren and everyone in football really proud.

A. stage

B. chair

C. found

D. watch

26. -Iris is always kind and _____to the suffering of others.

-No wonder she chooses to be a relief worker.

A. allergic

B. immune

C. relevant

D. sensitive

27. We had wanted to surprise Father with a birthday gift, but my sister ______ by asking him what he would like.

A. licked her lips

B. ate her words

C. spilt the beans

D. pulled his leg

28. Hopefully, the new method will be effective, helping students to get their career plans______.

A. at hand

B. at will

C. on trial

D. on track

29. We are committed to creating a world free from the homeless and the hopeless, a world ______. each and every comer is a true paradise.

A. that

B. which

C. of which

D. from where

30. Yet _____________ in the process of development did they stop to consider the impact of their "progress" on nature.

A. in no time

B. at no point

C. as likely as not

D. more often than not

31. During each NBA season, basketball fans cheer on their favorite teams to make ___________. through.

A. it

B. them

C. that

D. those

32. He was greatly shocked at Donald Trump's taking office. Never did he expect that the voters ______be so unreasonable.

A. should

B. could

C. would

D. might

33. ______ a record-breaking seven Golden Globes, the musical La La land surprisingly does not appeal to Chinese viewers.

A. Winning

B. Won

C. Having won

D. To win

34. If these new measures don't work, we'll have to _______ our old system.

A. make up for

B. crone up with

C. break away from

D. fall back on

35. -Why didn't you come back last night? I waited long!

- ______. You were playing games the whole night.

A. Don't give me that

B. Don't lose your head

C. Don't trust to chance

D. Don't dream away your time

第二节完形填空（共20小题:每小1分，.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四个选顶中，选出最佳选顶. 并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。

Order is the best manager of time. It illustrates many subjects. Thus, obedience to the natural law is order. Virtue is order. The world began with it. _ 36 _ was once common before its establishment.

The merchant, the clerk and the laborer are all of the same 37 . born with the same

expectations and affected by similar influences. They are, it is _38 _, born in different positions, but it 39 with themselves whether they shall live nobly or evilly. They may not have their choice of riches or poverty, but they have their 40 of being good or evil.

People of the highest position, 41 _ culture and education, have often as great hardships as the common people. They have to make their incomes go much further. They have to 42 _ their social status. 43 _ their incomes may be less satisfactory, they are desperate to 44 and bring the children up as gentlemen.

Hume, a famous historian, was a man of good family but his 45 were very small when he was young. In his autobiography, he uses his own case as a(n) 46 of the advantages of frugality (节省). Despite a considerable debt, his mother, a widow. 47 met the difficulties and eventually overcame them. Though her income was less than that of many highly paid men, she educated her children well and brought them up 48 .

Hume says, "While studying in France. I 49 that plan of life which I have steadily and successfully pursued. I determined to make a 50 _ frugality supply of my shortage of fortune and to _ 51 _ my independence." At thirty-six he thought himself rich. These are his own words: "My appointments, with my frugality, had helped me reach a fortune which made me _ 52_,”Goethe says, "It doesn't matter within what circle an honest man acts, provided he knows how to 53 that circle." "What is the best government?" Goethe asks, "That which teaches us to 54_ ourselves! Let every one only do the right in his place, without 43 himself about the confusion

of the world."

36. A. Chaos B. Offence C. Punishment D. Condemnation

37. A. origin B. race C. nature D. interest

38. A. hopeful B. strange C. vital D. true

39. A. agrees B. rests C. corresponds D. conflict

40. A. idea B. option C. freedom D. intention

41. A. in defence of B. in course of C. in anticipation of D. in respect of

42. A. give up B. depend on C. look for D. keep up

43. A. Since B. Though C. Unless D. When

44. A. educate B. encourage C. blame D. spoil

45. A, ambitions B. achievements C. means D. contributions

46. A. assurance B. consequence C. illustration D. criterion

47. A. bravely B. stubbornly C. sharply D. tentatively

48. A. faithfully B. plainly C. gratefully D. virtuously

49. A. proposed B. made C. discussed D. approved

50. A. rigid B. casual C. liberal D. flexible

51. A. balance B. restore C. value D. maintain

52. A. attractive B. proud C. independent D. knowledgeable

53. A. fit in B. move in C. end in D. engage in

54. A. protect B. justify C. govern D. display

55. A. questioning B. troubling C. scolding D. abandoning

第三部分阅读理解（共l5小题，每小题2分，满分30分）

请认真阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选顶，并在答题纸上将该项涂黑.

A

possible admission price to the Harvard Museum of Natural History?

A. $6.

B. $9.

C. $20.

D. $24.

57. Which of the following is TRUE about visiting the Harvard Museum of Natural History?

A. Visitors are free to take photos of all its exhibits.

B. Visitors are prohibited from making phone calls.

C. Visitors can park in the street as long as they pay.

D. Visitors can make parking reservations on weekdays.

B

Grant Wood's American Gothic is a painting that's puzzled

generations who've stopped to wonder at the real meaning

behind it. We all know it: a serious-locking couple in front of

their gothic-arched wooden house--in a style called Carpenter's

Gothic, for which the painting is named.

It was painted in 1930, when US artists were inspired to

paint realist scenes of rural America during the Depression in a

style that became known as Regionalism.

The couple are identified either as a farmer and his wife, a

as a daughter with her unsmiling and over-protective father.

Wood's sister, Nan, who posed for the picture, always insisted

the two were father and daughter. perhaps finding the age gap

too improper. The relationship has always remained interestingly

conflicting.

Unlike her eider companion's fixed stare, the woman glances off to the side. Her expression is actually difficult to determine. She looks sorrowful, or perhaps uncomfortable, though her straitlaced primness (拘谨保守的古板) is weakened by an escaping coil of hair at the beck of her neck. As if holding guard against those anticipated intruders (侵入者)-probably, protecting his daughter-wife's virtue, though she doesn't seem particularly happy about it--the man holds a pitchfork in a soldier-like fashion. And that is what lends the work its uneasy (不协调的) comedy. Everything about it is an artful set-up.

First of all. Nan never actually posed with the man in the picture, nor arc they in any way related. Wood had spotted the house during a drive to the town of Eldon in Iowa. It immediately gave him an idea. "That idea was to find two people who, by their straitlaced characters, would be suitable for such a home," he later explained. The couple were actually painted separately, and neither sitter was painted in front of the home. The farmer, as you might have already guessed, isn't actually a farmer, but a certain Dr Bryon McKeeby, a wealthy dentist from Cedar Rapids, where Wood lived with his mother and sister. The couple's clothing too has been carefully handpicked by the artist.

In addition, both their faces, Nan's in particular, have been thinned and lengthened, as has the famous gothic window and roof. And, if you look carefully, you might even detect something funeral about the scene, beyond the tombstone features of the couple. It's suggested by the woman's primly buttoned black dress, and in the man's smart black overcoat.

Some thought the work mercilessly laughed at the lifestyle in the Midwest. Meanwhile, some critics praised the painting as a cutting small-town satire (讽刺). Still others saw the painting as honoring the Midwest and its strong values.

Regarding the paintings comic tone, wood himself gave contradictory accounts. “There is satire in it," he once said, "but only as there is satire in any realistic statement." Perhaps it is this ambiguity that has made the painting the most symbolic in US history.

58. What is uncertain about American Gothic*

A. The identity of the models.

B. The characters' relationship.

C. How the painting got its name.

D. Where the background house was.

59. What indicates the woman's straitlaced primness?

A. Her glancing off to the side.

B. Her carefully buttoned black dress.

C. The determination in her expression.

D. The escaping coil of hair at the back of her neck.

60. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A. Ambiguity is an essential part of any good painting.

B. It is beyond doubt that the painting has a comic tone.

C. The statement that Wood himself gave clarifies nothing.

D. American Gothic is the most controversial in US history.

C

Last year Congress issued a moral call to action when it ordered the National Institutes of Health to reevaluate its ethical oversight (伦理上的疏忽) of government-funded primate (灵长类) research. Although the scientific community widely sees nonhuman primates as essential for advances in biomedicine (they have caused major gains in the fights against AIDS and neurological diseases such as Parkinson's, for example), researchers agree more can be done to treat the animals more humanely and conduct research less wastefully. To that end, the NIH gathered famous scientists last. September to discuss the future of primate-based research-and they agreed that data sharing is the way forward.

Researchers could reduce experiments on nonhuman primates by studying data that have already been collected to answer new questions, says David O'Connor, a pathologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. O'Connor is walking the walk: his laboratory studies the Zika virus in primates, and he immediately posts all the results online. The goal is to figure out ways to fight Zika as quickly as possible without placing an undue burden on research primates. The Seattle-based Allen Institute for Brain Science, which uses rhesus macaques, small South Asian monkeys, to study the molecular basis of brain development, also makes all results public. O'Connor says this practice should be more widespread so that `researchers who are using this scarce but vital resource can learn as much as possible from as few animals as necessary." Still, he is skeptical that data sharing will catch on because it would require a change in "nonnative behavior"-science's strong culture of secrecy, in which data are kept under wraps until they are published in a peer-reviewed journal. One step toward full transparency is to follow the lead of human clinical trials, says Christine Grady, a bioethicist at the NIH. U.S. law requires most clinical trials to register online and make their results public, even if a study fails or is inconclusive. This ensures that other researchers can learn from a

trial regardless of its results-, move that could also safeguard primates against being used for the same thing twice. Nancy Haigwood, director of the Oregon National Primate Research Center, also says data sharing is "the way of the future." Her center hosts 4,800 primates to study a variety of human diseases. She currently contributes results from her center to O'Connor's Web site. "I don't see a drawback" she says. "We have to share data more quickly."

61. What does Congress think of the primate research?

A. It has done a great deal of good to advances in biomedicine.

B. It is a huge waste of money to conduct research on primates.

C. Primate-based research must be stopped for moral reasons.

D. Proper attention should be given to treating primates humanely.

62. The underlined phrase' walking the walk" in Paragraph 2 shows that O'Connor

A. is the leader in fighting Zika virus in primates

B. is walking away from his own responsibility

C. is carrying out what he has said he should do

D. is taking a tough road when posting his data

63. According to O'Connor, what might prevent scientists from sharing their data?

A. The deep-rooted culture that data should be kept secret until published.

B. The fact that scientists are reluctant to change their way of research.

C. The requirement that most clinical trials should be registered online.

D. The fear that they will be laughed at if a study fails or is inconclusive.

64. What could be the best title for the passage?

A. The Merciless Practice of Primate Research

B. To Treat Primates More Humanely: Transparency

C. To Abandon Experiments on Primates: Final Goal

D. The Burden of Research on Nonhuman Primates

D

You've probably heard such reports. The number of college students majoring in the humanities (人文学科) is decreasing quickly. The news has caused a flood of high-minded essays criticizing the development as a symbol of American decline.

The bright side is this: The destruction of the humanities by the humanities is. finally, coming to an end. No more will literature, as pan of an academic curriculum, put out the light of literature. No longer will the reading of say. "King Lear" or D.H. Lawrence's "Women in Love" result in the annoying stuff of multiple-choice quizzes, exam essays and homework assignments.

The discouraging fact is that for every college professor who made Shakespeare or. Lawrence come alive for the lucky few. there were countless others who made the reading of literary masterpieces seem like two hours in the dentist's chair.

The remarkably insignificant fact that, a half-century ago. 14% of the undergraduate population majored in the humanities (mostly in literature, but also in art, philosophy, history, classics and religion) as opposed to 7% today has given rise to serious reflections on the nature and purpose of an education in the liberal ans.

Such reflections always come to the same conclusion: We are told that the lack of a formal education, mostly in literature, leads to numerous harmful personal conditions, such as the inability to think critically, to write clearly, to be curious about other people and places, to engage with great literature after graduation, to recognize truth, beauty and goodness.

These serious anxieties are grand, admirably virtuous and virtuously admirable. They are also a mere fantasy.

The college teaching of literature is a relatively recent phenomenon. Literature did not even become part of the university curriculum until the end of the 19th century. Before that, what came to be called the humanities consisted of learning Greek and Latin, while the Bible was studied in church as the necessary other half of a full education. No one ever thought of teaching novels, stories, poems or plays in a formal course of study. They were part of the leisure of everyday life. It was only after World War II that the study of literature as a type of wisdom, relevant to actual. contemporary life, put down widespread institutional roots. Soldiers returning home in 1945 longed to make sense of their lives after what they had witnessed and survived The abundant economy afforded them the opportunity and the time to do so. Majoring in English hit its peak, yet it was this very popularity of literature in the university that spelled its doom, as the academicization of literary art was accelerated.

Literature changed my life long before I began to study it in college. Books took me far from myself into experiences that had nothing to do with my life, yet spoke to my life. But once in the college classroom, this precious, alternate life inside me got thrown back into that dimension of my existence that bored me. Homer, Chekhov and Yeats were reduced to right and wrong answers, clear-cut themes and clever interpretations. If there is anything to worry about, it should be the disappearance of what used to be an important part of every high-school education: the literature survey course, where books were not academically taught but thoroughly introduced-.n experience unaffected by stupid commentary and useless testing.

The literary classics are places of quiet, useless stillness in a world that despises (鄙视) any activity that is not profitable or productive. Literature is too sacred to be taught. It needs only to be read.

Soon, if all goes well and literature at last disappears from the undergraduate curriculum-my ringers are crossed-increasing numbers of people will be able to say that reading the literary masterworks of the past outside the college classroom, simply in the course of living. was, in fact, their college classroom.

65. The author mentions "two hours lo the dentist's chair" in Paragraph 3 to indicate that_____.

A. the average literature class in college is two hours long

B. reading literary works is made unbearable by professors

C. it actually does not take long to read the classics of literature

D. college students don't spend much time on literary masterworks

66. The sharp drop in the number of majors in the humanities_________.

A. has given rise to quite a shock in the intellectual world

B. promises the remarkable destruction of the humanities

C. shows more people read literature outside the classroom

D. has caused the author to reflect on the nature of literary creation

67. Which of the following opinions may the author hold?

A. The disappearance of literature should be strongly applauded.

B. Literature teaching can improve our critical thinking ability.

C. Reading literature doesn't require specialized knowledge and skills.

D. Literature should be taught through analyzing different writing styles.

68. According to the author, the problem of literature teaching lies in the fact that________.

A. it is a relatively recent phenomenon in education

B. literature teaching is not profitable or productive

C. people are interested in something more practical

D. it is turned into a soulless competition for grades

第四部分任务型阅读(共10小题。每小题l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：请将答案写在答题纸上相应题号的横线上。每个空格只填一个单词。

"HELL is a city much like London," said Parry Bysshe Shelley in 1819. Modern academics agree. Last year Dutch researchers showed that city dwellers (居民)have a 21% higher risk of suffering from anxiety disorders than do their calmer rural countrymen, and a 39% higher risk of suffering from mood disorders. But exactly how the inner workings of the urban and rural minds cause this difference has remained unclear-until now. A study just published in Nature by Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg of the University of Heidelberg and his colleagues has used a scanning

technique called functional magnetic-resonance imaging (机械性磁共振成像，简称fMRI) to examine the brains of city dwellers and countrymen when they are under stress

In Dr Meyer-Lindenberg's first experiment, participants lying with their heads in a scanner took maths tests that they were bound to fail (the researchers had designed success rates to be just （25-40%). To make the experience still more embarrassing, the team provided negative feedback through headphones, all the while checking participants for indications of stress, such as high blood pressure.

The city people's general mental health did not differ from that of the rural countrymen. However, their brains dealt with the sum caused by the experimenters in different ways. These differences were noticeable in two regions: the amygdalas ( 杏仁核) and the perigenual anterior cingulate cortex (前扣带皮层，简称pACC).

People living in the countryside had the lowest levels of activity in their amygdalas. Those living in towns had higher levels. City dwellers had the highest. In the case of the pACC. however, what mattered was not where someone was living now. but where he or she was brought up. The more urban a person's childhood, the more active his pACC, regardless of where he was dwelling at the time of the experiment.

The amygdalas thus seem to respond to the here-and-now while the pACC is programmed early on, and does not react in the same, flexible way as the amygdalas. Second-to-second changes in its activity might, though, be expected to be connected with changes in the amygdalas, because of its role in regulating them. fMRI allows such connections to be measured.

In the cases of those brought up in the countryside, regardless of where they now live, the connections were as expected. For those brought up in cities, however, these connections broke down. The regulatory mechanism of the native urbanite, in other words, seems to be out of order.

Dr Meyer-Lindenberg and his team conducted several more experiments to check their findings. They asked participants to complete more maths tests-and also tests in which they were mentally ups and downs-while investigators scolded them about their performance. The results matched those of the first test. They also studied another group of volunteers, who were given stress-free tasks to complete. Then experiments showed no activity in either the amygdalas or the pACC, suggesting that the earlier results were indeed the result of social stress rather than mental effort.

As is usually the case in studies of this sort, the sample size was small and the result showed an association, rather than a definite, causal relationship. That association is, nevertheless, interesting. Living in cities brings many benefits, but Dr Meyer-Lindenberg's work suggests that Shelley and his fellow Romantics had at least half a point.

Title: Do urban brains behave differently from rural eon?

第五部分书面表达(满分25分)

81.请阅读下认~口刀I-的节选，并按照要求用英语写一篇150词左右的文章

【写作内容I

1.用的30个单词概述上面节选的主要内容,

2.简要分析现代社会部分人忽视表达爱的原因《至少两点):

3.谈谈你该如何珍惜周围的人。

【写作要求】

1.写作过程中不能直接引用原文语句;

2.作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称:

3.不必写标题。

【评分标准】

内容完整，语言规范，语篇连贯，词数适当。