浙江省鄞州区余姚市高三高考5月模拟英语试卷

---Please inform Jack of the exact time of the arrival of the airplane.
---____? He will come here tonight.

What ____ great fun we are having! I’ll never forget ____ Christmas like it.

He was no longer a (an)____ who failed in big events, like the 2008 Beijing
Olympics, where he finished an unimpressive 11^th.

____ for its well-preserved ancient Tibetan houses, Dukezong was one of the most popular resorts in Shangri-la.

In the eyes of some people, Japan has been ____ the list of the unpleasant places for sightseeing in consequence of the severe nuclear leak.

Great inventors don’t ____ graduate from famous universities. Some didn’t even go to university.

The number of the students in senior high school, ____ is mentioned above, is increasing.

The celebration of National Hugging Day has moved beyond America’s borders. It seems the day might ____ and start in other countries.
A. hold on           B. count on
C catch on          D. take on

I’m glad you told me about the concert being cancelled. ____ I’d have traveled all the way to Beijing for nothing.

—Can I pay the bill by check?
--- Sorry, sir. But it is the management rules of our hotel that payment ____ be made in cash.

—Can those ____ at the back of the classroom hear me?
---No problem.

Some plants are vey ____ to light; they prefer the shade.

While there are quite a few differences in the education system, in many countries education is ____.

—I failed again. I wish I ____ harder.
---But you ____.

Could it be in the room____ we had a talk last night ____ you left the key?

The manager, ____ it clear to us that we should stick to the plan, left the meeting room.

Our English teacher told us to find out ____ the differences between American English and British English lie.

There are various things on sale, so you can choose____ interests you.

She hurriedly left the room without saying anything as if ____.

Don’t be discouraged. ____things as they are and you will enjoy every day of your life.

Of course, she wasn't really my aunt and, out of fear, I never called her that to her face. I only ____      to her as "My Aunt Fannie" because it always made my father chuckle and my mother look  ____      at both of us—at me for being _____      of my elder and at my father for _____      my bad behavior. I  ____      both reactions so I grasped every opportunity to work the name into as many conversations as possible.
As a young woman, my mother had worked in the _____       of a large Victorian farmhouse owned by Fannie Cratty and her twin brother, Farnsworth. They represented the ____      of the Cratty line. Neither had married  ____      had any living heirs(继承人) and my father once told me in a whisper that it was because they were both too  ____      to share their family wealth. During those years my mother helped Aunt Fanny make the best blueberry jam ever  ____      by anyone in Glenfield. She was noted for her jam and for never  ____      the recipe with anyone else. ____      my mother knew the recipe by heart, as long as Aunt Fannie was alive, she ____      made the jam without Ms. Cratty in our kitchen to direct the process and preserve the secret.
One year, after I had been particularly helpful with the jam process Aunt Fannie gave me a  ____       and then made me promise that I would never spend it. " ____       this quarter," she said, "and some day you will be rich. I still have my very first quarter given by my grandfather." It had obviously  ____      for her. So I followed her advice.
I now have the blueberry jam recipe and the quarter from Aunt Fannie. In people's eye Aunt Fannie's  ____      was attributed to that secret recipe. But to me, it was just a  ____      recipe. However, I keep them as  ____      to hold firmly the valuable things in life. Money can make you feel rich for a while, but it is the relationships and the memories of time spent with friends and family that truly leave you wealthy. And that is a ____      that anyone can build.

A．called B．thought C．regarded D．referred

A．coldly B．severely C．delightedly D．politely

A．disappointed B．disagreeable C．disrespectful D．dissatisfied

A．encouraging B．scolding C．forcing D．pushing

A．hated B．respected C．treated D．enjoyed

A．barn B．kitchen C．yard D．garden

A．beginning B．start C．end D．glory

A．nor B．and C．but D．yet

A．proud B．generous C．strict D．mean

A．seen B．tasted C．cooked D．sold

A．sharing B．telling C．selling D．giving

A．As though B．As if C．Even though D．Even if

A．ever B．never C．still D．yet

A．quarter B．bill C．note D．cheque

A．Hold back B．Hold up C．Hold onto D．Hold out

A．mattered B．failed C．succeeded D．worked

A．sorrow B．success C．schedule D．signature

A．usual B．normal C．ordinary D．common

A．regulations B．reflections C．reminders D．rewards

A．future B．fortune C．fantasy D．favor

阅读下列材料，从每题所给的四个选项（A. B. C. D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。
A
Like many other parts of our lives today, education has become a global enterprise. In microcosm(微观世界), my school is proof of just how global. Monkseaton High School is an ordinary state-funded school of 850 students in the unfashionable part of northeastern England. Over the past seven years it has sent 12 students to American universities --- two of them to Harvard. Monkseaton has, in turn, attracted students from other countries, including Germany and Latvia. Monkseaton now almost routinely receives inquiries from students in Eastern European countries. Obviously, learning English is a big draw, but his pattern of student movement was unheard of five years ago.
The brain drain is a universal phenomenon, and countries that don’t face up to the new reality will be losing some of their most precious resources. The northeast of England is its poorest region, and has experienced a severe loss of highly qualified professionals-to-be. Some of the most able 18-year-olds are going to other parts of Britain, even to other countries. What is happening here is happening to Britain as a whole. Most noticeably, there is a growing trend of British students taking degrees in American universities. This year the number will break the psychological barrier of 1,000 students for the first time.
And what is happening at the secondary-school level is happening to higher education. Wherever they come from, today’s students have a very different perspective on education from their parents. Because of television, the Internet and their travels, these students see the world as a much smaller place than their parents once did. They are more confident in accepting the challenge of moving from one country to another, from one culture to another; in many cases they can even apply to schools over the Internet. Students are also more aware of the overall cost of education and are looking for value for money. Plus, for many, education linked to travel is a better option than education at home.
  Why does the author say education has become a global enterprise?

What can we infer about northeast England from the passage?

According to the passage, students today have different perspective from their parents on the following EXCEPT that _________________.

The students today tend to see the world as a much smaller place NOT because __________.

The purpose of the author in writing this passage is to __________.

  B

Walking tours of the Museum’s collections are offered on __________.

What time is the latest Chinese Art Class?

  When is the last Old Master Paintings?

  Which one starts the earliest?

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 ________.

Is language, like food, a basic human need without which a child at a critical period of life can be starved and damaged? Judging from the experiment of Frederick in the thirteenth century, it may be. Hoping to discover what language a child would speak if he heard no mother tongue, he told the nurses to keep silent.
All the infants died before the first year. But clearly there was more than lack of language here. What was missing was mothering. Without good mothering, in the first year of life especially, the capacity to survive is seriously affected.
Today no such severe lack exists as that ordered by Frederick. Nevertheless, some children are still backward in speaking. Most often the reason for this is that the mother is insensitive to the signals of the infant, whose brain is programmed to learn language rapidly. If there sensitive periods are neglected, the ideal time for acquiring skills passes and they might never be learned so easily again. A bird learns to sing and to fly at the right time, but the process is slow and hard once the critical stage has passed.
Experts suggest that speech stages are reached in a fixed order and at a constant age, but there are cases where speech has started late in a child who eventually turns out to be of high IQ. At twelve weeks a baby smiles and makes vowel-like sounds; at twelve months they can speak simple words and understand simple commands; at eighteen months he has a vocabulary of three to five words. At three he knows about 1,000 words, which he can put into sentences, and at four his language differs from that of his parents in style rather than grammar.
Recent evidence suggests that an infant is born with the capacity to speak. What is special about man’s brain, compared with that of the monkey, is the complex system which enables a child to connect the sight and feel of, say, a toy-bear with the sound pattern “toy bear”. And even more incredible is the young brain’s ability to pick out an order in language from the mixture of sound around him, to analyze, to combine and recombine the parts of a language in new ways.
But speech has to be induced（激发，引起）, and this depends on interaction between the mother and the child, where the mother recognizes the signals in the children’s babbling（咿呀声）,grasping and smiling, and responds to them. Insensitivity of the mother to these signals dulls the interaction because the child gets discouraged and sends out only the obvious signals. Sensitivity to the child’s nonverbal signals is essential to the growth and development of language.
The writer mentioned the experiment of Frederick to __________.

The purpose of Frederick’s experiment was to __________.

The reason why some children are backward in speaking is most probably that ________.

If a child starts to speak later than others, he will __________ in future.

Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?

According to the passage, the writer agrees that__________.

Make sure the respondent has enough information
Remember your survey’s purpose
Keep your questions simple
Include only one topic per question
If in doubt, throw it out
Avoid leading questions
Write more effective survey questions
Naturally, no question is “good” in all situations, but there are some general rules to follow. Using these rules and examples will help you write useful questions.
_______________
All other rules and guidelines are based on this one. There was a reason you decided to spend your time and money to do your survey, and you should ensure that every question you ask supports that reason. If you start to get lost while writing your questions, refer back to this rule.
_______________
This is another way of stating the first rule, but it is important enough to repeat. A question should never be included in a survey because you can’t think of a good reason to discard it. If you cannot come up with a concrete benefit that will result from the question, don’t use it.
________________
Compound sentences force respondents to keep a lot of information in their heads, and are likely to produce unpredictable results. Example: “Imagine a situation where the production supervisor is away from the line, a series of defective parts is being manufactured, and you just heard that a new client requires ten thousand of these parts in order to make their production schedule. How empowered do you feel by your organization to stop the line and make the repairs to the manufacturing equipment?” This question is too complex for a clear, usable answer. Try breaking it down into components parts.
_______________
How would you interpret the responses to “Please rate your satisfaction with the amount and kind of care you received while in the hospital.” or, a question asking about speed and accuracy? If you want to be able to come up with specific recommended actions, you need specific questions.
________________
Asking respondents “How effective has this company’s new distribution program been?” may not be as effective as “Recently, we used a new distribution system. Did you know this?” Followed by “Have you seen any positive benefits resulting from this change?” It can be beneficial to break down questions that require background information into two parts: a screening item describing the situation which asks if the respondent knows about it, and a follow-up question addressing attitudes the respondent has about the topic.

下面短文中有10处语法错误。请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧）,并在其下面写上该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从11处起）不计分。
例如：
It was very nice to get your invitation to spend ∧ weekend with you. Luckily the I was/are completely free then, so I’ll to say “yes”. I’ll arrive in Bristol at around 8 p.m. in/on  Friday evening Animation means making things which are lifeless coming alive. From earliest times, people have always attracted by movement, but it is not until this century we have managed to capture movement and to record them. In the world of cartoon animation, nothing is impossible. You can make the creating characters do exactly which you want them. A famous early cartoon character was Felix the Cat. Felix was a nice cat, who could do all sorts of things no natural cat could do like taking off his tail, using it as handle and then putting it back. Most of the great early animators lived and worked in America, the home of the moving picture industry. Thus, to be an animator, you don't have to be a professional. It is impossible for anyone to make a simple animated film without using a camera at all. All you have to do is draw direct on to blank film and then run a projector.

2014年2月14日是中国传统节日元宵节，同时也是西方的情人节。当中西两个节日重叠在一起时，很多人都在热议我们更倾向于过哪个节日。请以“守住中国的传统节日”为话题，用英语写一篇100-120词的短文，表达你的观点。
要求如下：
明确自己的观点。
阐明理由，可举例说明。
文章开头已给出，不计入词数。
The lanterns festival and the Valentine’s Day coincide on February, 14^th, 2014, which makes people discuss heatedly which festival to celebrate that day.