中山市2016届高三高考模拟试题

英 语

2016-5

注意事项：

1. 本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考生号、考场号和座位号填写在答题卡上。因测试不考听力，第I卷从第二部分的“阅读理解”开始，试题序号从“21”开始。

2. 回答第I 卷时，选出每小题答案后，用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。写在本试卷上无效。

3. 回答第II卷时，将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。

4. 考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。

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，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

A

Yellowstone National Park

Brief Introduction:

Yellowstone National Park is located in the northwest corner of Wyoming, and includes small areas of Montana and Idaho as well. In addition to its superb Rocky Mountain scenery, the park is one of the world’s principal wildlife preserves. It’s also the site of America’s greatest concentration of geysers and hot springs, which form a visible and spectacular link with the primeval forces of the Earth’s creation.

Entrance Fees:

$25 — private, noncommercial vehicle;?$20 — motorcycle or snowmobile (winter);$12 — visitors 16 and older entering by bike, ski, etc.

This fee provides the visitor with a 7-day entrance permit for the Yellowstone National Park.?

A $50 park annual pass provides entrance for a single private non-commercial vehicle at Yellowstone National Park. The $10 Interagency Senior Pass (62 and older) is a lifetime pass available to U.S. citizens or permanent residents.

Interesting Yellowstone National Park Facts:

◇ A designated World Heritage Site and designated Biosphere Reserve

◇ World’s First National Park

◇ 3,472 square miles or 8,987 square km

◇ 2,221,766 acres or 898,317 hectares

◇ 63 air miles north to south (102 km)

◇ 54 air miles east to west (87 km)

◇ 96 % in Wyoming

◇ 3 % in Montana

◇ 1 % in Idaho

21. Yellowstone National Park is famous for the following except .

A. its wildlife preserves

B. its hot springs

C. its Rocky Mountain scenery

D. its noncommercial vehicle

22. Two college students who visit Yellowstone National Park by bike have to pay .

A. $50 B. $40 C. $24 D. $20

23. According to the passage, Yellowstone National Park is .

A. the largest designated vulture reserve

B. the world’s first national park

C. a park with an area of 8,987 miles

D. the only national park in America

B

At age 23, Indian entrepreneur Srikanth Bolla is the CEO of a company valued at INR 50 crore (over $7.5 million). Today, he considers himself the luckiest man in the world, not for his success, but for having supportive parents who always stood by him.

When Srikanth was born blind, several of his parents’ friends and relatives advised them to abandon him. That would indeed have been the easier thing to do, given the fact that they were poor and uneducated, earning a mere INR 20,000 ($300) a year. But they chose to not only keep the boy, but also raise him in a positive, loving environment. “They are the richest people I know,” he often says.

And their excellent parenting has paid off — today, Srikanth is the CEO of Bollant Industries, a Hyderabad-based company that employs physically challenged staff to manufacture eco-friendly consumer packaging solutions made from leaves and recycled paper. It wasn’t an easy ride for Srikanth — he’s had to face several challenges all his life, including rejection from his peers at his village school. As he grew older, he started taking on larger challenges. He was rejected despite having scored well in the entrance test, merely because he was blind. But he managed to use his excellent academic records to gain admission into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from where he graduated in 2012. He returned to India soon after, and decided to start a company that would employ people who had struggled like himself in life.

Srikanth said, “Compassion（怜悯） is showing somebody the way to live and giving them the opportunity to thrive. Show compassion and make people rich. Include people in your life and remove loneliness, and lastly, do something good; it will come back to you.”

24. From Paragraph 1 and 2, we learn that Srikanth owes his success to his _________.

A. parents B. luck C. hard work D. friends and relatives

25. The underlined part in Paragraph 3 refers to those who _________.

A. are ambitious

B. are physically well

C. like challenges and physics

D. have some problem in health

26. As Srikanth grew older, he ________.

A. refused any rejection and started a company

B. faced more rejections and tried to overcome them

C. got a lot of friendly assistance when facing challenges

D. showed great compassion and gave opportunities to the rich

27. Which can be the best title for the passage?

A. Blind man built company worth millions

B. How parents raised a successful child

C. How compassion makes people rich

D. The whole life of Srikanth Bolla

C

Previous studies have suggested as many as 70 percent of college students get insufficient（不充足的）sleep. But new data released today that analyzed sleep habits of college-age users of Jawbone’s UP fitness tracker suggests otherwise.

Jawbone looked at sleep data from college-age users who wear the company’s UP fitness trackers and found that they actually average just over 7 hours of sleep per night on weekdays and 7.38 hours on weekend nights. The data comes from 18,498 college-age users from 137 schools across the country who wear the device and accounts for 1.44 million nights of sleep data recorded by those individuals between 2013 and 2016. Here are four more points about the research:

1. People at high-achieving schools tended to have later bedtimes

The data analytics team at Jawbone was also able to separate out sleep data for each school with UP wearers reporting data. They found that the tougher the school, according to the U.S. News ranking, the later the average college-age UP wearer at that school goes to bed.

2. Still, 7 hours may not be enough sleep

While the data from Jawbone may be encouraging, considering that previous research has found that some students sleep only 5.7 hours a night on average. But Neil Kline, a sleep physician, points out that even this higher number isn’t sufficient. “There is much data that suggests that this age group needs more than seven or 7.5 hours of sleep on average per night,” Kline claimed.

3. The data doesn’t include naps

Another point, Kline said, is that the data doesn’t include naps. Total daytime sleep — napping — tends to be difficult to account for because naps can be short and easily forgotten, he said. But they do affect total sleep.

4. Fitness-tracking students aren’t exactly the norm

It’s also important to note that the data from Jawbone comes from college-age people who purchased and used Jawbone UP fitness tracking devices, which means that the participants in this research do not necessarily make up a representative sample（样本）of college students in terms of socioeconomic status or lifestyle factors.

28. What does the underlined sentence mean in Paragraph 1?

A. New data has the same results as the previous one.

B. New data and the previous one have many things in common.

C. New data from Jawbone may astonish most college students.

D. New data suggests that college students spend more time sleeping.

29. According to the new data, a student who does well in academic performance may probably sleep ________.

A. less than 5.7 hours a night

B. less than 7.5 hours a night

C. early at night

D. over the night

30. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A. The sample of college students is far from enough.

B. College students usually don’t have naps at all.

C. College students sleep only 5.7 hours a night on average.

D. Every college student across the country takes part in the research.

31. What is the author’s purpose in writing this passage?

A. To show the importance of sufficient sleep at night.

B. To explain why college students can’t get sufficient sleep.

C. To tell readers some data about college students’ sleep per night.

D. To offer college students some tips on handling insufficient sleep.

D

The Hollywood film, “The Martian”, opens to U.S.?audiences?on October 2. Actor Matt Damon stars as an astronaut left alone on Mars. His crew returned to Earth thinking he had died in a windstorm. Damon's?character, Mark Watney, must survive with few supplies and somehow get a message to Earth that he is alive.

The plan to release the movie this week was some lucky timing. On Monday, the U.S. space agency NASA announced it had found strong evidence of liquid water on Mars. That again raised the possibility that, with liquid water, there could be life.

NASA also took a part in the development of “The Martian”. Director Ridley Scott and Matt Damon reached out to agency officials for help to make the story as scientific as possible.

So how scientifically?accurate?is “The Martian”? Jeffrey Luger of?Time?magazine tried to answer that question. He pointed out two of the biggest?falsehoods?of the film. The first, Mr. Luger writes, is central to the story: a powerful, dangerous windstorm that forces the space crew to leave the planet. The very low density atmosphere of Mars, Mr. Luger argues, could not create a storm like that. Mr. Luger also has trouble with the lack of danger from radiation on Mars. He notes that the six-month trip to Mars alone would expose the astronaut to 15 times more radiation than is permitted for nuclear energy workers in a year.

But?Popular Science?reported much realism in the details. Science writer Sarah Fecht points to Astronaut Watney’s struggle to work in astronaut clothing, especially the gloves. And, an expert she spoke with said the stiff gloves are a real problem. They are very difficult to bend.

“The Martian” is receiving excellent reviews from top critics. Anne Hornaday?calls it a “spirited example of how cool science can be”. Mike D’Angelo describes “The Martian” as a “celebration of our ability to solve even the most?difficult?problems”.

32. In “The Martian”, Mark Watney