高三备考英语模拟测试卷【广东版】9

One effective way of destroying happiness is to look at something and focus on even the smallest fault. It’s like looking at the tiled (铺瓦的) ceiling and concentrating on the space where one tile is        .
Once I heard a bald man said, “Whenever I enter a room, all I see is hair.” Once you’ve         what your missing tile is, explore whether acquiring it will         make you happy. Then do one of the three things: get it, replace it with a different       , or forget about it and        the tiles in your life that are not missing.
We all know people who have had a relatively        life, yet are essentially unhappy, while people who have suffered a great deal generally remain happy.
The first        is gratitude. All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to       , but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.
The second secret is awareness. We should         that happiness is a byproduct (副产品) of something else. The most obvious         are those pursuits ( 追求) that give our lives purpose---anything from studying insects to playing baseball. The more passions we have, the more happiness we are        to experience.
Finally, the belief that something permanent goes beyond us and that our        has some larger meaning can help us to feel happier. We need a spiritual faith, or a philosophy of life. Whatever your philosophy is, it should       this truth: if you choose to find the        in every situation, you will be blessed, and if you choose to find the awful, you will be cursed. As for happiness itself, this         depends on your decision to make.

A．different B．short C．missing D．broken

A．imagined B．predicted C．assumed D．determined

A．really B．naturally C．hopefully D．completely

A．ceiling B．brick C．tile D．house

A．go on B．focus on C．put on D．rely on

A．easy B．difficult C．ordinary D．peaceful

A．factor B．secret C．rule D．key

A．upset B．quarrel C．depress D．complain

A．realize B．decide C．prove D．suppose

A．answers B．results C．sources D．goals

A．curious B．satisfied C．tentative D．likely

A．value B．existence C．survival D．destination

A．include B．tell C．absorb D．mean

A．worst B．positive C．disgusting D．negative

A．absolutely B．totally C．largely D．exactly

Dear Gill,
Do you remember me telling you about a health farm I've seen advertised? Well, I've looked at the ad again and I must say that _______ looks fantastic. Now I'm hoping to persuade you ______ (join) me there for a weekend!
The rooms you stay in sound really luxurious and apparently they all have an access ______ the gardens. All the meals _______ (offer) at a reasonable price and you can also get room service ________ you want. The brochure says that what you do is _______ (entire) up to you. You can have programs specially _______ (design) to suit you, or you can just ask staff to make a few suggestions about activities to do. You can use any of the sports and leisure facilities _____ much as you like, and the brochure also mentions lots of other activities every day. But don't worry, as nobody will watch you do anything, you could just spend the whole time relaxing in the sauna if you want! There's a terrific offer on at the moment with weekends costing only half the normal price although that only _____ certain dates. Anyway, let me know ______ you think.
Best wishes.
Sue

【改编】Many experts say that Billy Wilder changed the history of American movies. He is often called the best movie maker Hollywood has ever had.
He was known for making movies that offered sharp social comment. Wilder was one of first directors to do this. Between the middle 1930sand the 1980s,Billy Wilder made almost fifty movies. During that time he received more than twenty nominations(提名) from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He won six of the Oscar awards. His movies have been seen by people around the world.
In 1944,Billy Wilder made the film Double Indemnity. Some critics said this movie established him as one of the greatest Hollywood directors. Wilder directed The Lost Weekend in 1945.Ray Milland plays the part of an alcoholic writer in the movie. It shows that alcohol rules his life, yet he does not admit it. He hides alcohol in his home and says he is not drinking.
In 1950, Wilder made Sunset Boulevard. This movie told of an aging actress in silent movies. She plans to return to movies though facing many problems. In 1954, Billy Wilder became an independent producer. The next year, Wilder’s first movie as an independent filmmaker was a huge success. It was The Seven Year Itch. In this movie, a married mail wants to cheat on his wife with some of hisfriends.In1959,
Wilder made a funny movie that was very popular. It was Some Like It Hot. It tells about two jazz musicians being chased by criminals. They decide to wear women’s clothes and join a band in which all the musicians were women.
Wilder died in March,2002. He was ninety-five. A current Hollywood producer said: “Billy Wilder made movies that people will never forget.”
From the second paragraph we can knowBilly Wilder _____.

At what age did he make the film The Lost Weekend ?

Which film tells of the story of an old actress?

What can be the best title of the passage?

Which of the following is TRUE?
A. Billy Wilderdirected the film Double Indemnity in the 1940s.
B. Billy Wildermade fifty movies all his life.
C Billy Wilderwas addicated to alcohol in his late years.
D.Billy Wilder is highly thought of by the world.

【改编】Feeling blue about the world? “Cheer up,” says science writer Matt Ridley. “The world has never been a better place to live in, and it will keep on getting better both for humans and for nature.”
Ridley calls himself a rational optimist—rational, because he’s carefully weighed the evidence; optimistic, because that evidence shows human progress to be both unavoidable and good. And this is what he’s set out to prove from a unique point of view in his most recent book, The Rational Optimist . He views mankind as grand enterprise that, on the whole, has done little but progress for 100,000 years. He backs his findings with hard facts gathered through years of research.
Here’s how he explains his views.
1）Shopping fuels invention
It is reported that there are more than ten billion different products for sale in London alone. Even allowing for the many people who still live in poverty, our own generation has access to more nutritious food, more convenient transport, bigger houses, better cars, and, of course, more pounds and dollars than any who lived before us. This will continue as long as we use these things to make other things. The more we specialize and exchange, the better off we’ll be.
2) Brilliant advances
One reason we are richer, healthier, taller, cleverer, longer-lived and freer than ever before is that the four most basic human needs—food, clothing, fuel and shelter—have grown a lot cheaper. Take one example. In 1800 a candle providing one hour’s light cost six hours’ work. In the 1880s the same light from an oil lamp took 15 minutes’ work to pay for. In 1950 it was eight seconds. Today it’s half second.
3) Let’s not kill ourselves for climate change
Mitigating(减轻) climate change could prove just as damaging to human welfare as climate change itself. A child that dies from indoor smoke in a village, where the use of fossil-fuel(化石燃料) electricity is forbidden by well- meaning members of green political movements trying to save the world, is just as great a tragedy as a child that dies in a flood caused by climate change. If climate change proves to be mild, but cutting carbon causes real pain, we may well find that we have stopped a nose-bleed by putting a tourniquet(止血带) around our necks.
What does “blue” mean in the first paragraph?

What is Ridley’s recent book about?

Which is the writer’s opinion?

According to the writer , One reason why humans live longer is that_____.

The author develops the passage mainly by_____.

A wise man once said that the only thing necessary for the victory of evil is for good men to do nothing. So, as a police officer, I have some urgent things to say to good people. Day after day my men and I struggle to hold back a tidal wave of crime. Something has gone terribly wrong with our once-proud American way of life. It has happened in the area of values. A key ingredient is disappearing, and I think I know what it is: accountability.
Accountability isn’t hard to define. It means that every person is responsible for his or her actions and liable for their consequences.
Of the many values that hold civilization together --- honesty, kindness, and so on --- accountability may be the most important of all. Without it, there can be no respect, no trust, no law --- and, ultimately, no society.
My job as a police officer is to impose accountability on people who refuse, or have never learned, to impose it on themselves. But as every policeman knows, external controls on people’s behavior are far less effective than internal restraints such as guilt, shame and embarrassment.
Fortunately there are still communities --- smaller towns, usually --- where schools maintain discipline and where parents hold up standards that declare: “In this family certain things are not tolerated --- they simply are not done!”
Yet more and more, especially in our larger cities and suburbs, these inner restraints are loosening. Your typical robber has none. He considers your property his property; he takes what he wants, including your life if you annoy him.
The main cause of this breakdown is a radical shift in attitudes. Thirty years ago, if a crime was committed, society was considered the victim. Now, in a shocking reversal, it’s the criminal who is considered victimized: by his underprivileged (被剥夺基本社会权利的) upbringing, by the school that didn’t teach him to read, by the church that failed to reach him with moral guidance, by the parents who didn’t provide a stable home.
I don’t believe it. Many others in equally disadvantaged circumstances choose not to engage in criminal activities. If we free the criminal, even partly, from accountability, we become a society of endless excuses where no one accepts responsibility for anything. We in America desperately need more people who believe that the person who commits a crime is the one responsible for it..
What the wise man said suggests that it’s __________.

According to the author, if a person is found guilty of a crime, ________.

  Compared with those in small towns, people in large cities have ________.

The writer is sorry to have noticed that ________.

The key point of the passage is that ________.

【原创】Humans are well-equipped for life on Earth. But in space, it is different. Low or zero gravity changes how the blood flows and causes motion sickness, muscle loss and tiredness. Weightlessness can also cause bone loss. But scientists are experimenting with little worms to better understand how space travel affects astronauts.
The millimeter-long worm is called C. elegans. The see-through worm is often used in medical studies because its life is only about two weeks long. Seventy percent of its DNA is the same as human DNA.
Sabanayagam is a scientist, who built a micro-gravity simulator to test how C. elegans would perform in the actual zero gravity of space.
Scientists put the worms into the simiulator full of water. After a week they take out the worms. They look for changes in the worms' epigenome,which are chemical markers that tell the DNA in the cells how to perform. The epigenome can be changed by the environment. And those changes pass from one generation of worms to the next.
"When the worms are in a liquid environment, some epigenomic marks remain even when we take the animal out of the liquid environment and put it back into normal ground conditions. So its offspring keeps this epigenomic memory of the parents' liquid environment or microgravity environment."
The information the scientists have gathered suggests that the epigenomic marks appear during the early part of a worm’s life.
Mr. Sabanayagam says he thinks scientists can find genes in the human similar to those in the worms that responded to microgravity and scientists could possibly observe those genes closely when astronauts travel in space.
Sabanayagam expects C. elegans to visit the International Space Station within two years. He says he hopes information gathered from the worm studies can be used to develop simple, low-cost and quick tests to measure an astronaut's health.
What does the underlined word” zero gravity” mean?

From the passage we can know C. elegans _____.
A. has exactly the same DNA as human
B. is harmful to human
C. is often used in agricultural research
D. has a short life period
Why do scientists experiment with C. elegans?
A. Because it has strong life power in water.
B. Because they want to find how space travel affects astronauts
C. Because the worm will be taken into space.
D. Because they want to find what its DNA like.
What is Sabanayagam’s attitude toward the result of the experiment?

Which section of a newspaper can you find the passage?

阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息，请在答题卡上将对应题号的相应选项字母涂黑。
下面是几部荣获奥斯卡奖的著名电影，首先请阅读它们的海报信息：

A.		The Hurt Locker US Army ordnance disposal teams disarm improvised explosive device (IED)placed by Iraqi guerrilla fighters．	B．		Slumdog Millionaire TV game—show success fuels one man’s escape from poverty in this Bollywood-tinged romantic drama．
C．		The Departed A policeman and a criminal go undercover and infiltrate(渗透) each Other’s worlds in this crime thriller．	D.		Dances With Wolves A nineteenth—century soldier learns to respect and then love the Lakota(拉科他族人) way of life
E．		Brave heart Thirteenth—century Scot Sir William Wallace takes up the sword to defend his people against the English．	F.		Gladiator A slave in ancient Rome finds dignity and a reason to live in gladiatorial combat．

 
下面是对这几部影片的简要介绍，请把它们对应的海报找出来：
Sergeant First Class William James，a battle．tested veteran，arrives as a new team leader in Bravo company of a U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (E.O.D.) unit to disarm improvised explosive device in Iraq in 2004，replacing Staff Sergeant Matthew Thompson, who is killed by a radio—controlled improvised explosive device in Baghdad．
In AD 180，the dying Roman emperor wishes to grant temporary leadership to Maximus, but was killed by his son，Commodus, Maximus realizes the truth，but unfortunately, he is taken to Zucchabar, a Roman city in North Africa，by slave traders。There，he iS bought by Proximo, and forced to fight for his life as a gladiator in arena tournaments．
In the 13th century，after several years of political unrest，Scotland is invaded and conquered by King Edward I of England．Young  witnesses the treachery of Longshanks, survives the death of his father and brother．Twenty or so years later, he led the people to fight against the English army, but finally he was killed．1eaving a shout “Freedom!”
In Mumbai，India，eighteen-year-old Jamal Malik, a former street child from the Juhu slum, is a contestant on the TV show of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire．and is one question away from the grand prize．However，he is detained and interrogated by the police，who suspect him of cheating because of the impossibility of a simple “slumdog” knowing all the answers．Jamal recounts the incidents in his life which provided him with each answer．
Colin is introduced to organized crime by Irish mobster Costello．Costello trains him to become a mole inside the Massachusetts State Police．Colin is accepted into the Special Investigations Unit，which focuses on organized crime．Before Billy graduates from the police academy，he is asked by Captain Queenan to go undercover, as his family ties to organized crime make him a perfect infiltrator．

假如你是李华，上周六你们班召开了一个“中学生可不可以谈恋爱”的主题班会，请根据下面的表格把主题班会的讨论结果用英语写出来。
[写作内容]

[写作要求]
1．只能使用5个句子表达全部内容。
2．文章的首句已给出，不计入句子数量的总数。
[评分标准]’句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。
参考词汇：中立neutral adj．

阅读下面短文，然后按要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
Recently many universities have used the school beauty and a handsome boy as a way of advertising to attract new students.
Web celebrity Zhang Zetian, who is popularly known by her online nickname 'Milk Tea Sister' appeared on the cover page of Tsinghua University's magazine, along with other famous people in the university in 2012.
Renmin University, a top university in Beijing featured graduation photos of a beautiful girl, Kang Yikun in 2013 in its website's homepage. The photo won praise from netizens who said it showed the atmosphere of the graduation season in a creative way.
Famous school beauties and handsome boys also appeared in Wuhan University, Northwest University, Beijing Language and Culture University and many other schools.
Some approve of this way of advertising. A young writer, Zhang Lechen, who was born in the 1980s, said this promotional method was creative and had a strong visual impact and as a result was a much more effective way to communicate.
However, others argue against the method, saying that it is not a good way for the university to use attractive girls or boys to make advertisements.
[写作内容]
1.以约30个词概括上文的主要内容。
2.以约120个词就“大学招生”这个话题谈谈你的看法，内容包括：
（1）你对大学利用美女、帅哥打招生广告的看法；
（2）你会根据大学哪些条件来决定报读；
（3）你希望在大学结识什么样的人。
[写作要求]
1.作文中可以使用亲身经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文中的句子。
2.作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。
[评分标准]
概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，语篇连贯。