高三英语第十二次模拟压轴卷试题.docx

1、高三英语第十二次模拟压轴卷试题2019-2020年高三英语第十二次模拟压轴卷试题第I卷第一部分 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） 阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A When I was a boy growing up in New Jersey in the 1960s, we had a milkman delivering milk to our doorstep. His name was Mr. Basille. He wore a white cap and drove a white truck.

2、As a 5-year-old boy, I couldnt take my eyes off the coin changer fixed to his belt. He noticed this one day during a delivery and gave me a quarter out of his coin changer. Of course, he delivered more than milk. There was cheese, eggs and so on. If we needed to change our order, my mother would pen

3、 a notePlease add a bottle of buttermilk next delivery and place it in the box along with the empty bottles. And then, the buttermilk would magically(魔术般) appear. All of this was about more than convenience. There existed a close relationship between families and their milkmen. Mr. Basille even had

4、a key to our house, for those times when it was so cold outside that we put the box indoors, so that the milk wouldnt freeze. And I remember Mr. Basille from time to time taking a break at our kitchen table, having a cup of tea and telling stories about his delivery. There is sadly no home milk deli

5、very today. Big panies allowed the production of cheaper milk, thus making it difficult for milkmen to pete. Besides, milk is for sale everywhere, and it may just not have been practical to have a delivery service. Recently, an old milk box in the countryside I saw brought back my childhood memories

6、. I took it home and planted it on the back porch(门廊). Every so often my sons friends will ask what it is. So I start telling stories of my boyhood, and of the milkman who brought us friendship along with his milk.1. Mr. Basille gave the boy a quarter out of his coin changer _.A. to show his magical

7、 power B. to pay for the deliveryC. to satisfy his curiosity D. to please his mother2. What can be inferred from the fact that the milkman had the key to the boys house?A. He wanted to have tea there. B. He was a respectable person.C. He was treated as a family member. D. He was fully trusted by the

8、 family.3. Why does home milk delivery no longer exist?A. Nobody wants to be a milkman now. B. It has been driven out of the market.C. Its service is getting poor. D. It is forbidden by law.4. Why did the author bring back home an old milk box?A. He missed the good old days. B. He wanted to tell int

9、eresting stories.C. He needed it for his milk bottles. D. He planted flowers in it.B Tell a story and tell it well, and you may open wide the eyes of a child, open up lines of munication in a business, or even open peoples mind to another culture or race. People in many places are digging up the old

10、 folk stories and the messages in them. For example, most American storytellers get their tales from a wide variety of sources, cultures, and times. They regard storytelling not only as a useful tool in child education, but also as a meaningful activity that helps adults understand themselves as wel

11、l as those whose culture may be very different from their own. Most local stories are based on a larger theme, American storyteller Opalanga Pugh says, Cinderella (灰姑娘), or the central idea of a good child protected by her goodness, appears in various forms in almost every culture of the world. Work

12、ing with students in schools, Pugh helps them understand their own cultures and the general messages of the stories. She works with prisoner too, helping them know who they are by telling stories that her listeners can write, direct, and act in their own lives. If they dont like the story they are l

13、iving, they can rewrite the story. Pugh also works to help open up lines of munication between managers and workers. For every advance in business, she says, there is a greater need for munication. Storytelling can have a great effect on either side of the manager-worker relationship, she says. Pugh

14、 spent several years in Nigeria, where she learned how closely storytelling was linked to the everyday life of the people there. The benefits of storytelling are found everywhere, she says. I learned how people used stories to spread their culture, she says, What I do is to focus on the value of the

15、 stories that people can translate into their own daily world of affairs. We are all storytellers. We all have a story to tell. We tell everybodys story.5. What do we learn about American storyteller from Paragraph 2?A. They share the same way of storytelling. B. They prefer to tell the stories from

16、 other cultures. C. They learn their stories from the American natives. D. They find storytelling useful for both children and adults.6. The underlined sentence (Paragraph 4) suggests that prisoners can _.A. start a new life B. settle down in another placeC. direct films D. bee good actors7. Pugh ha

17、s practised storytelling with _ groups of people.A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 58. What is the main idea of the text?A. Storytelling can influence the way people think. B. Storytelling is vital to the growth of businesses. C. Storytelling is the best way to educate children in school. D. Storytelling helps peop

18、le understand themselves and others.CHave you ever felt somebody elses pain? Youre not alone, with new research showing some people do have a physical reaction to others injuries.British researchers used brain-imaging technology (影像工程学) to show that people who say they feel the pain of others have h

19、eightened activity in pain- sensing brain regions(区域) when they see someone else being hurt. For the study, the researchers exposed 108 college students to images（图像） of painful situations, ranging from athletes suffering sports injuries to patients receiving an injection. Nearly a third said that,

20、for at least one image, they not only had an emotional reaction, but also felt pain in the same site as the injury in the image.The researchers found that while viewing the painful images, both people who said they felt pain and those who did not showed activity in the emotional centers of the brain

21、. But those who felt pain showed greater activity in pain-related brain regions pared with the others.“Patients with functional pain experience pain in the absence of an obvious disease or injury to explain their pain. This confirms that at least some people have an actual physical reaction when obs

22、erving others being injured or expressing pain,” Dr. Stuart Derbyshire of the University of Birmingham, one of the researchers, told reporters.He noted that the people reported feeling pain also tended to say that they avoided horror movies and disturbing images on the news so as to avoid being in p

23、ain.The findings were published in the December issue of the journal Pain.9. The underlined words “a third” probably refer to _ .A. sportsmen experiencing pain B. the 36 students involved in the studyC. patients receiving an injection D. the 108 students exposed to the images10. The researchers obse

24、rved the students emotional activity in their _ .A. brain regions B. eye regions C. faces D. voices11. If you are allergic to pain, youd better get away from _ .A. reading journals B. seeing scary moviesC. listening to the news D. going to the concert12. What would be the best title for the text?A.

25、Emotional Centers of Your Brain B. You Can Use Brain-imaging TechnologyC. You Can Feel Others Pain D. Painful Images to the Researchers DWhile WeChat is Chinas biggest mobile messaging app (应用软件)，there are many equivalent(相当的) apps in other countries that offer similar features（特征）.WhatsApp (US)User

26、s: more than 300 millionPlatforms: Android, 10S, Windows Phone, BlackBerryFeatures：Text chat, push-to-talk, file sharing, location sharingWith more than 300 million active users, WhatsApp is one of WeChats biggest petitors. Developed by two ex-Yahoo! employees in 2009, WhatsApp originally focused on

27、 text chat, but onAug6 it also started push - to - talk service. Its noted for its accessibility, ease of use and the absence of advertisements. The service is free for the first year, after which $0.99 (6.06 yuan) is charged for one-year subscription.Kakao Talk (South Korea)Users： more than 100 mil

28、lionPlatforms: Android, iOS, Windows Phone, BlackBerry and Bada (an operateing system developed by Samsung)Features: Text chat, group chat, push - to - talk, group calls, file sharingWith more than 100 million users in more than 230 countries, Kakao Talk is a multi - platform ( 多平台 ) texting applica

29、tion that allows users to send and receive messages for free. With Kakao Talk, users can message each other one-on one or in group chats with unlimited numbers of friends. You can also choose from more than 250 animated emoticons (表情符号) and share them with friends.Line (Japan)Users: more than 200 mi

30、llionPlatforms： Android, iOS, Windows Phone, BlackBerry and PCFeatures：Text chat, group chat, push - to - talk, file sharing, location sharing, gaming, stickers.Line tops the list of the most downloaded free apps in 52 countries. Apart from text and voice messaging, Line provides its users with more

31、 than 250 original stickers and emoticons to buy from its own shop. In the first quarter of 2013 alone. it made $ ,7 million just from stickers. The popular app also allows friends to battle each other in the LINE Game.13. The first paragraph of the passage is used to _. . A. introduce the most popu

32、lar mobile messaging apps in China B. talk about new features in the latest mobile messaging apps C. draw readers attention to various popular mobile messaging apps D. explain how mobile messaging apps have bee so popular14. pared with the other two apps, which of the following features makes Line stand out? A. Group mobile games. B. Free stickers and emoticons. C. Free download of the app. D. Text and group chat.1