2018届广州市高三年级调研测试英语试题
2017.12
本试卷共 10 页，满分 120 分。考试用时 120 分钟。 第二部分 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 )
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
Metropolis Book Club
Membership:
All you need to do is fill out the order form at the bottom of the page, select your first order from our book list and then post the completed form back to us. Special offers for new members:
As a special offer, you may choose any reduced-price books from our new members? book
list, to the value of 100 yuan in total. Tick the box on your form to order a free watch.
Join before the end of this month and you receive another free book carefully chosen by our
staff.
Order an audio-book from the many on offer, at half the recommended retail price. When you’ve joined:
As a member you get around 50% off the publisher?s price of every book you buy, and what?s more, they come straight to your door. Your free club magazine arrives once a month to keep you up to date with the latest best-sellers we?ve added to our list. On the Internet, you can find all our titles for the year at our exclusive members? website. Our website also has a book swap service where members can request or offer books for exchange. Being a member:
All you have to do is order four books during your first year. After that, you can decide on the number of books you wish to take.
In each of your monthly club magazines, our experienced staff choose a “Book of the Month” for you, which is offered at an extra-special price. If you do not want this book, just say so in the space provided on the form and send it back to us. We always send the book if we do not receive this form.
Once we receive your order, your books are delivered within one week. And remember, you have up to a
fortnight to decide if you wish to keep the books you have ordered. If they aren?t what you expected just send them back!
1. How can you become a member of the Metropolis Book Club? A. By ordering a watch free of charge. B. By sending the advertisement to the club. C. By choosing books with special prices. D. By returning the completed order form.
2. What information does the monthly magazine give members? A. The percentage saved on each book. B. The names of all the books sold by the club. C. The list of the newest books available to buy. D. The books that can be swapped by club members. 3. What can we infer from the last part of the passage? A. At least four books should be bought each year. B. Members can look at the books before they buy them. C. Members need to buy the “Book of the Month”. D. The more books bought, the higher the member?s grade. 【答案】1. D 2. C 3. B
【解析】 本文主要介绍如何成为都市图书俱乐部的会员，以及成为会员有哪些优势。 1. Ｄ
细节理解题。根据第一段“Membership:All you need to do is fill out the order form at the bottom of the page, select your first order from our book list and then post the completed form back to us.” 你所要做的就是填写下面的订单，从我们的书单中选择你的第一个订单，然后把填妥的表格寄回给我们。分析内容可知填写订单并寄给他们就可成为会员，分析选项可知D项符合题意。 2. Ｃ
3. Ｂ
推理判断题。根据最后一段“And remember, you have up to a fortnight to decide if you wish to keep the books you have ordered. If they aren?t what you expected just send them back!”你有两周的时间来决定是否保留你所订购的书。如果他们不是你所期望的，就把他们送回去！分析句意可知，收到书后在两周之内如果觉得不是你想要的书可退回，可知会员可以在买之间看到书的。分析选项可知B项符合题意，故选B。
B
Paloma sat at a computer in the school library. She stared at the blank screen and the blinking cursor. She rummaged around in her backpack for a rubber band, and then she pulled her hair into a thick ponytail. Paloma looked at the computer screen. It was still blank. She sighed and flipped through her notebook to reread the assignment Mr. Molina had given the class three weeks ago. It was due in just two days, and Paloma knew that she couldn?t procrastinate any longer.
Write a creative short story using an experience that you have had recently, Paloma read. Your story should include two examples of figurative language.
Paloma and her family had recently taken a trip along North Carolina?s coast. They had visited four different lighthouses, and Paloma wondered what it would be like to live in a lighthouse. She knew that before lighthouses were automated, they were run by a lighthouse keeper who lived on the premises. Paloma thought she?d love to be a lighthouse keeper. Without thinking about it any longer, Paloma began to write the story.
I sat with my cat Sadie curled on my lap and looked out the window at the crashing waves. The heavy rain beat against my lighthouse like a thousand footsteps racing up and down the walls. I held Sadie closer, and she let out a small meow of displeasure. I knew that the coming storm could not be too dangerous if Sadie was still acting normally. I had read that animals can sense changes in weather and will seek shelter from a tornado or hurricane. I was relying on Sadie?s calmness to get me through my first hurricane on the island.
I knew that my lighthouse was sturdily built. It had survived more than one hundred years? worth of hurricanes and tropical storms. There was no reason to believe that it couldn?t survive another. I looked up at the staircase that spiraled above me and worried as I felt the tower sway slightly in a gust of wind.
Paloma stopped and reread what she had just written. She smiled to herself in delight, saved her story, and then settled into her chair to continue writing. She wasn?t sure what was going to happen next, but she knew that if she kept going, the story would continue to tell itself. Paloma couldn?t wait to find out where it would take her. 4. Why is Paloma feeling anxious at the beginning of the passage? A. She hasn?t much time left to do her writing task. B. She doesn?t know the details of her writing task. C. She has completely forgotten about her writing task.
D. She doesn?t know what is wrong with her computer. 5. What is the inspiration for Paloma?s story idea? A. Her cat. B. Her teacher. C. Her trip. D. Her dream.
6. In Paloma?s story, how does the lighthouse keeper decide if the storm is dangerous? A. By listening to the weather report. B. By watching the crashing waves. C. By observing the cat?s behaviour.
D. By measuring the movement of the lighthouse.
7. As described in the final paragraph, how does Paloma feel after she has written the first part of her story? A. Confused. B. Excited. C. Relieved. D. Determined. 【答案】4. A 5. C 6. C 7. B
【解析】 本文是记叙文。主要讲述帕洛玛想要根据自己的经历来写一个故事。 4. A
推理判断题。根据第一段最后一句“It was due in just two days, and Paloma knew that she couldn?t procrastinate any longer.” 她只有短短两天，她知道她不能再耽搁。分析句意可知，她没有多少时间。分析选项可知A。 5. C
推理判断题。根据第二段可知要写一个故事，“.Write a creative short story using an experience that you have had recently, Paloma read根据你自己的经历来写故事，第三段的内容可知，Paloma 想到自己和家人一起最近在北卡罗莱纳海岸旅行。于是开始写故事了，由此可推断出她的故事的想法是来源于她的旅行。分析选项可知C项符合题意，故选C。 6. C
推理判断题 。根据第四段最后部分“I knew that the coming storm could not be too dangerous if Sadie was still acting normally. I had read that animals can sense changes in weather and will seek shelter from a tornado or hurricane. I was relying on Sadie?s calmness to get me through my first hurricane on the island.”我知道如果Sadie仍然表现正常，即将到来的风暴不会太危险。我读到过动物能感知天气的变化，并能躲避龙卷风或飓风。我是靠Sadie的冷静让我渡过我在岛上的第一次飓风。分析可知Paloma是靠观察她的猫行为来判断风暴是否危险的。分析选项可知C符合题意。故选C。 7. B
推理判断题。根据最后一段“Paloma stopped and reread what she had just written. She smiled to herself in
delight,…Paloma couldn?t wait to find out where it would take her” Paloma停下来重读自己刚刚写的。她高兴地笑了…。Paloma迫不及待想知道这个故事如何发生。分析句意可知她非常激动。分析选项可知B项（Excited ）符合题意。
C
For many years, Bruce Bexler dreamed of going where no human had gone before. He wanted to cut a path through unexplored lands and discover rare, exotic species.
That might sound like an impossible dream, but Bexler turned it into a reality.
In December 2015, he and a team of Australian and American scientists ventured into an isolated tropical rain forest on the island of New Guinea. They were the first people ever to enter the mist-covered region. “As time was limited, we were dropped in by helicopter. Once we were on the ground, there were no trails anywhere; it was really hard to get around,” Bexler says.
Within minutes of landing, the team spotted a black chicken-like bird with strange orange skin hanging from its neck. The scientists soon determined that the unusual creature was a type of honeyeater — the first new bird species to be sighted on New Guinea in 60 years.
The honeyeater wasn?t the only surprise for the scientists. They discovered more than 40 previously unknown plant and animal species — 13 birds of paradise, 20 frogs, four butterflies, and five palms. “We were like kids in a candy store,” Bexler recalls. “Everywhere we looked, we saw amazing things we had never seen before.”
The newfound species didn?t shy away from the scientists. Two long-nosed echidnas — primitive egg-laying mammals — let the visitors pick them up and take them back to camp to study them. An echidna looks like a hedgehog and is also called a spiny anteater.
Bexler thinks the animals weren?t scared because they had never seen humans before. “In almost all parts of New Guinea, animals are hunted for food, and because of this, they are very cautious of people,” he explains. “This area gives scientists a place where they can go to study the behaviours of animals that have not yet learned to be afraid of people.”
Scientists believe the area is probably the largest untouched forest in Asia. Local people called Kwerba hunt and collect plants from the outer-edges of the forest but told Bexler that not even their ancestors had gone so far into the woods. The wooded area is approximately a 10-day walk from the nearest village.
Bexler and his team did not have enough time during the expedition to study the area completely. They hope to return and expect to record many more undiscovered species. “We just scratched the surface,” Bexler says. “Anyone who goes there will come back with a mystery.” 8. Which word best describes Bruce Bexler?