高三英语模拟练习（二）
Ⅱ.Grammar and Vocabulary Section A
Directions:After reading the passage below,fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word,fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word;for the other blanks,use one word that fits each blank.
The Birthday Party Project
On a flight from Dallas,Texas,to Cincinnati,Ohio,to visit a friend in 2008,event planner Paige Chenault daydreamed about the birthday parties she’d throw for her daughter one day.(Paige was five months pregnant at the time.)Then , 21__ (browse) through a magazine ,she saw a photo of a poverty -stricken Haitian boy.”I thought,this kid has noting.”Paige says .
The image stayed with 22 ,and she resolved to do something to help .”I decided I 23 (use) my talents to throw birthday parties for homeless kids, ”Paige says . For the next four days,Paige and her husband,Colin,took time out from parenthood to visit shelters to determine how best to pull off the parties .
Finally ,in January 2012,Paige launched the Birthday Party Project ,a nonprofit organization,and called on friends and family to help decorate Dallas's 75-occupant Family Gateway Shelter___24 ___balloons and streamers, celebrating the birthday of 11 boys and girls ,with 60 more homeless kids in attendance .”That first party was ___25___(good) than I could have ever imagined,”says Paige .
Now Paige and her staff of three___26___(pay) employees work with regional volunteers,aka \enthusiasts,\to plan monthly themed parties at 15 shelters across the country,some of___27___house abandoned kids .Each child celebrating a birthday that month gets a $30 gift, a decorative placemat, and individual cake or cupcake .
One of Paige’s favorite parts of each party is ___28___the kids make a wish and blow out the candles.”Rarely ___29 ___they get a chance to dream big,”says
Paige .
Her daughter ,Lizzie ,now seven ,often helps out at the parties. Paige says ,”The one thing I've always wanted is for my kid___30___(be) generous. ”
Section B
Direction :Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A.Appropriate B. characters C. conveying D. efficiently E. evolved F. horizontal G. Processing H. relatively I. resistant J. simplified K. features For social animals,such as humans,the ability to distinguish different from one another is important since this skill enables us to get important social information is a stranger and introduction would be more___31___.
But how do we recollect the faces we know?The first step to facial recognition is the___32___of visual information in the brain,which is thought to rely on the orientation of ___33___such as lines.
By studying images of famous people,such as Coldplay’s Chris Martin and actor George Clooney,researchers have found that nearly all the information we need to recognize a face is contained in___34___lines,such as the lines of the eyebrows,the eyes,and the lips.Further analysis of facial composition has revealed that these features could be___35___into black and white lines of information,similar to bar codes.
Bar codes,such as those found on groceries in supermarkets,were developed as efficient way of obtaining information from food packages;Straight,one-dimensional (一维的）lines are far easier to deal with than two-dimensional___36___such as numbers.Our faces may have___37___in a similar way - for example,to allow parents and infants to recognize each other.
The researchers analyzed various natural images,such as flowers and
landscapes,and found that faces are unique in ___38___ all their useful information
with something like the lines of the eyebrows,the eyes,and the lips.The bar-code pattern has many advantages:It allows a face to be recognized ___39___ by the visual parts of the brain it is easy to locate in complex scenes;and it appear to be ___40___ to changes in the overall appearance of the face.
Ⅲ.Reading Comprehension Section A
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A,B,C and D.Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
The word graffiti simply means words or drawing scratched or scribbled(乱涂)on a wall and has been around since humans have lived in societies:Most people now agree that art in the from of graffiti ___41___ in New York in the 1960s-and it has been developing ever since.However,it is not readily accept as being art,like those works that we go to galleries or museums to see.It is not ___42___the status of genuine art because of a lack of from or other basic aesthetic(美学的)elements.In fact,most of the___43___to graffiti art is due to its location and unexpected and unconventional presentation;but the criticism of illegality,incoherence and non-standard presentation does not necessarily___44___it as art.
There are three main levels and types of graffiti,First,there is the ‘tag’ - the stylized writing of a name-which,while it might___45___a style of writing,has little or no aesthetic appeal.In fact,the tag or individual mark is not produced for aesthetic purpose, but is basically a means of indicating the writer’s___46___– the age-old statement of“I was here”. Murals（壁画） for community enhancement and beautification are also a form of graffiti, even though they are not thought of in this way because most murals are formally arranged for. These are more colourful and complex. They take a considerable amount of skill to complete, and murals can be done in a graffiti art style or as a traditional pictorial scene. The last form of graffiti is graffiti art, which is the___47___ use of spraypaint to produce an artwork that is graffiti or done in a graffiti-like style.