揭阳市2008届高中毕业班第二次高考模拟
英 语
本试卷共四部分，共15页（试题卷12页，答题卷3页）。满分150分,考试用时120分钟。 注意事项：
1. 答卷前，考生务必用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的姓名、考生号和座位号填写在答题卷上，并填写好答题卷密封线内的有关项目。用2B铅笔将答题卷试卷类型（A）涂黑。在答题卷右上角的 “座位号”列表内填写座位号。不按要求填涂的，答卷无效。 2. 选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卷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，答案不能答在试卷上。
3. 非选择题必须用黑色字迹钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卷各题目指定区域内相应位置上，如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液，不按以上要求作答的答案无效。
4. 考生必须保持答题卷的整洁，考试结束后，将试卷和答题卷一并交回。 I听力（共两节，满分 35分）
第一节：听力理解（共15题；每小题2分，满分30 分）
听下面5段对话或独白，每段播放两遍。各段后有几个小题，各段播放前每小题有5秒钟的阅题时间。请根据各段播放内容及相关小题，在5秒钟内从题中所给的A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卷上将该项涂黑。 听第一段材料，回答第1至4题。
1. Where did Miss Blackmore come from?
A. Britain. B. The United States. C. Canada. 2. When did Miss Blackmore begin to work in the Hotel Cornfield?
A. In 1990. B. In 1986. C. In 1984. 3. How many tables is Miss Blackmore expected to look after?
A. Forty. B. Twenty-five. C. Eight. 4. What is NOT included in Miss Blackmore's salary?
A. 140 pounds a week. B. Free evening meals. C. A free dormitory. 听第二段材料，回答第5至7题。
5．What did the man do during the vacation? A．He had to stay at home.
B．He visited the woman in New York. C．He went to the beach with his family. 6．What was the weather like there?
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A．It was wonderful.
B．It was always raining. C．It was cloudy every day.
7．What can we know from the conversation?
A．The couple looked after the children every day. B．The children got to know some new friends. C．The parents are tired of going back to work. 听第三段材料，回答第8至10题。 8．When did the earthquake happen?
A．Between 4:10 and 4:12 in the morning. B．Before 4:00 in the morning. C．At 4:15 in the morning.
9．Why did John put some glass tubes into the case? A．For experimenting. B．For safekeeping. C．For drinking.
10．What can we know from the speaker? A．John had some trouble sleeping. B．John put a key on the floor. C．John is a scientist.
听第四段材料，回答第11至12小题。 11. What does the man most possibly do?
A. A teacher. B. A tour guide. C. A driver. 12. Where does the woman specially want to visit?
A. The Great Wall and the Summer Palace. B. The Summer Palace and the Ming Tombs. C. The Great Wall and the Temple of Heaven. 听第五段材料，回答第13至15小题。
13．What’s the best reason why Englishmen often go to pubs? A．To meet their friends.
B．To enjoy performance by pretty women. C．To relax themselves.
14．What is a woman NOT supposed to do if she wants to visit an English pub? A．Go there alone. B．Go there with her family. C．Go there with a man.
15．According to the passage, how long are pubs usually open every day? A．11 hours. B．12 hours. C．13 hours. 第二节：听取信息（共5小题； 每小题1分，满分5分）
听下面一段对话。请根据题目要求，从所听到的内容中获取必要的信息，填入答题卷标号为16－20的空格中。听录音前你将有10秒钟的阅题时间，录音读两遍，你将有60秒钟的作答时间。
Schedule for the Indian Visitors Number of visitors Arrival time
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Activities The first day arranged The second day& the third day The last day 18 19 in the district and a talk on how computers are being used A walk 20 II 语言知识及应用（共两节，满分35分） 第一节：完形填空 (共10小题; 每小题2分, 满分20分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21-30各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卷上将该项涂黑。
What kind of car will we be driving in 2020? Rather different from the 21 we know today, with the next 12 years bringing greater changes than the past 60. The people who will be 22 the models of tomorrow believe that 23 problems may well accelerate the pace of the car’s development. Today they are students on the 24 design course at London’s Royal College of Art.
Their imagination is of a machine with three wheels instead of four, 25 powered,environmentally friendly , and able to drive itself along 26 roads equipped with built-in power supplies. Future cars will 27 their fuel during long journeys from power companies built into the road, or store it in small quantities for travelling in the street. This view of the future car is 28 on a much more super road system, with strips built into motorways to supply power to vehicles passing along them. Cars will not need drivers,because computers will provide safe driving control and route finding. All the driver will have to do is to say where to go and the computer will do the rest. It will become 29 for cars to crash into one another. The 30 already exists for the car to become a true automobile in the future. 21. A. design B. type C. colour D.size
22.A. studying B. selling C. buying D. designing 23. A. social B. political C. environmental D. scientific 24. A. transport B. industry C. agriculture D.spaceship 25. A. specially B. chemically C. automatically D.elecrtrically 26. A. modern B. wide C. safe D. intelligent 27. A. take in B. cut down C. pick up D. gain over 28. A. based B. built C.accepted D. operated 29. A. possible B. impossible C. necessary D.unnecessary 30. A. result B. rule C. material D. technology
第二节 语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分） 阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卷标号为31-40的相应位置上。 Many teenagers envy those young actresses who are discovered by famous directors and start glittering careers in their early 20s.Like Gong Li and Zhang Ziyi who were discovered by Zhang Yimou, the new lucky girl is 19-year-old Zhang Yuqi from Shandong Province.
Chosen by Hong Kong comedy actor and director Stephen Chow, Zhang makes her__31__film performance in Chow's new successful movie, CJ7 or A Hope. The movie__32__ (bring ) to the screen on January 31.
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In the sci-fi movie, Chow plays a poor father, __33__works very hard to support his 9-year-old son. __34__day, Chow discovers a strange \in the garbage __35__gives it to his son a birthday present. Soon the \communication device lost by aliens, who__36__(desperate) want it back. Zhang stars as his son's beautiful teacher, __37__ whom Chow falls in love, not__38__ (know) that she is a robot. Although Zhang feels fortunate, as A Hope has made her__39__ overnight star, the student at Shanghai Drama Academy has to learn to adapt to the competitive film world. \a good start, a good opportunity and a stressful challenge as well for__40__ age,\
Ⅲ 阅读(共两节，满分40分)
第—节 阅读理解(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A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卷上将该项涂黑。
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Without most people realizing it, there has been a revolution in office work over the last ten years. Before that time, large computers were only used by large, rich companies that could afford the investment. With the advancement of technology, small computers have come onto the market, which are capable of doing the work that used to be done by much larger and expensive computers, so now most smaller companies can use them.
The main development in small computers has been in the field of word processors (处理器) , or WPS as they are often called. 40% of British offices are now estimated to have a word processor and this percentage is growing fast.
There are many advantages in using a word processor for both secretary and manager. The secretary is freed from a lot of daily work, such as re-typing letters and storing papers. He or she can use this time to do other more interesting work for the boss. From a manager’s point of view, secretarial time is being made better use of and money can be saved by doing daily jobs automatically outside office hours. But is it all good? If a lot of daily secretarial work can be done automatically, surely this will mean that fewer secretaries will be needed. Another worry is the increasing medical problems related to work with visual display units (显示器). The case of a slow loss of sight among people using word processors seems to have risen greatly. It is also feared that if a woman works at a VDU for long hours, the unborn child in her body might be killed. Safety screens to put over a VDU have been invented
but few companies in England bother to buy them. Whatever the arguments for and against word processor are, they are a key feature (特征) of this revolution in office practice.
41. Ten years ago, smaller companies did not use large computers because_________. A. these companies had not enough money to buy such expensive computers B. these computers could not do the work that small computers can do today C. these computers did not come onto the market
D. these companies did not need to use this new technology
42. According to the writer, the main feature of the revolution in office work over
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the last ten years is __________. A. the saving of time and money
B. the use of computers in small companies C. the wide use of word processors
D. the decreasing number of secretaries
43. It is implied but not directly stated in the passage that with the use of word
processors _________.
A. some secretaries will lose their jobs
B. daily jobs can be done automatically outside office hours
C. medical problems related to work with a VDU have increased greatly D. the British companies will make less money 44. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. There are both advantages and disadvantages in using a word processor. B. The British companies care much for the health of the people using word
processors.
C. The technology in the field of computers has been greatly advanced over the
last ten years.
D. Using word processors, secretaries can get more time to do more interesting
work for their bosses.
45. It can be concluded from the passage that ________. A. safety screens are of poor quality
B. working at a VDU for a long time is good for one’s health C. more and more British offices will use word processors D. British companies will need fewer and fewer managers
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Although April did not bring us the rains we all hoped for, and although the Central Valley doesn’t generally experience the sound and lightning that can go with those rains, it’s still important for parents to be able to answer the youthful questions about thunder and lightning.
The reason these two wonders of nature are so difficult for many adults to explain to children is that they are not very well understood by adults themselves. For example, did you know that the lightning we see flashing down to the earth from a cloud is actually flashing up to a cloud from the earth? Our eyes trick us into thinking we see a downward motion when it’s actually the other way around. But then, if we believed only what we think and we see, we’d still insist that the sun rises in the monring and sets at night.
Most lightning flashes take place inside a cloud, and only a relative few can be seen jumping between two clouds or between earth and a cloud. But, with about 2,000 thunderstorms taking place above the earth every minute of the day and night, there’s enough activity to produce about 100 lightning strikes on earth every second.
Parents can use thunder and lightning to help their children learn more about the world around them. When children understand that the light of the lightning flashing reaches their eyes almost at the same moment, but the sound of the thunder takes about 5 seconds to travel just one mile, they can begin to time the interval(间隔) between the flash and the crash to learn how close they were to the actual spark(闪光).
46. Accodring to the author, in the area of the Central Valley____.
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