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）
阅读下面文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。
A
Below is a housing guide for students going to London.
University accommodation (住所) offices
Many university accommodation offices have their own list of registered landlords (房东). Others also provide information on accommodation agencies and other housing organizations. The advantage of using your university accommodation is that you can get support if you have a problem. The disadvantage is that they are unlikely to have enough registered landlords to houses all their students.
Property papers: Loot and Renting
Loot is an important source (来源) of information about private housing for co-renters. The offers are from private landlords, agencies and individuals looking for other co-renters. They also have a website: www.loot.com. The advantage of using Loot is that there are some excellent bargains. The disadvantage is that there is no quality control over the offers.
Renting is another useful paper. The offers in this paper are mainly from accommodation agencies. Their website is at www.renting.co.uk.
Accommodation agencies
The majority of rented accommodation in London is probably advertised throughaccommodation agencies. The advantage of using accommodation agencies is that you will have access to a large number of accommodations. A good agent will listen to your requirements and can save you time in looking for the right accommodation. The disadvantage is that they will make a range of charges to potential renters.
Noticeboards
Around the universities you will find a number of noticeboards where offers of accommodation will be posted. These will either be from landlords or from students. Some universities will also have online noticeboards where students can advertise to other students. Advertisements from students can be an excellent way to find accommodation. However, advertisements from landlords can be problematic.
Word of mouth
Some of the best housing in London is never advertised but is passed on from one group of students to another by word of mouth. It might be that you can find out about good offers from final year students. However, don’t suppose that just because you have found out about housing from a friends it is necessarily going to be better than that found through any other source.
Family
Faced with the very high rents charged in London, some students and their parents will consider buying as an alternative. In some cases this might be a good choice.
1. What is the advantage of using Loot?
A. It has more offers from accommodation agencies than Renting.
B: It gives you personal information about other co-renters.
C. Their website is designed mainly for students.
D. There are some good bargains.
2. A good agent can help you .
A. know more people
B. find cheap accommodation
C. get the right accommodation quickly
D. get free information about most accommodations
3. The information passed on by word of mouth is important because .
A. it is better than that found through any other source
B. it helps you find some of the best housing never advertised
C. the final year students always offer better information
D. the landlords have little valuable information
4. For students going to London for the first time, which of the following provides the most reliable information?
A. University accommodation offices. B. Loot and Renting
C. Noticeboards. D. Family.
B
When a storm is coming, most people leave the area as quickly as possible and head for safety. But there are a few people who will get into their cars and go straight for the center of the storm. These people are willing to risk being killed by floods or 100-kilometer-an-hour winds for the excitement of watching the storm close up.
“Storm chasing” is becoming an increasingly popular hobby, especially in the Midwest of the United States, where there are frequent storms between March and July. A storm chaser begins the day by checking the Internet for the latest weather reports, and then drives up to 1,000 kilometers to where the storm will be and waits for it to develop.
Although anyone can do it, storm chasing is extremely dangerous. The power of a big storm can throw a cow into the air or destroy a whole house in seconds. Storm chasers are also often hurt in accidents caused by driving in a heavy rain. If you are a beginner, it is much safer to join a group for storm-chasing vacations during the storm season.
Even then, storm chasing is not all adventure and excitement. “Storm chasing is 95% driving,” says Daniel Lynch, who spends most of his summer storm-chasing. “Sometimes you can sit around for hours waiting for something to happen, and all you get is blue sky and a few light showers.”
However, for storm chasers, it is all worth it. “When you get close to a storm, it is the most exciting sight you will ever see in your life,” says Jasper Morley. “Every storm is an example of the power of nature. It is the greatest show on Earth.”
5. For storm chasing, the first thing storm chasers do is to .
A. head straight for the center of the storm B. get into the car for safety
C. wait patiently for the storm to develop D. collect information about a coming
6. Beginners of storm chasing are advised .
A. not to drive in a heavy rain B. to do it in an organized way
C. not to get too close to a storm D. to spend more time on it in summer
7. By saying “it is all worth it” in the last paragraph, the author means that .
A. storm chasing costs a lot of money B. storm chasing is worth hours of waiting
C, efforts in storm chasing are well paid D. a storm presents the greatest show on Earth
8. What can we learn from the text?
A. Sometimes storm chasers get nothing but disappointment
B. Many storm chasers get killed in the storms.
C. Storm chasing is becoming popular around the world.
D. Storm chasing is only fit for young people.
C
Photos that you might have found down the back of your sofa are now big business!
In 2005, the American artist Richard Prince’s photograph of a photograph, Untitled (Cowboy), was sold for $ 1,248,000.
Prince is certainly not the only contemporary artist to have worked with so-called “found photographs” — a loose term given to everything from discarded (丢弃的) prints discovered in a junk shop to old advertisements or amateur photographs from a stranger’s family album. The German artist Joachim Schmid, who believes “basically everything is worth looking at”, has gathered discarded photographs, postcards and newspaper images since 1982. In his on-going project, Archiv, he groups photographs of family life according to themes: people with dogs; teams; new cars; dinner with the family; and so on.
Like Schmid, the editors of several self-published art magazines also champion (捍卫，维护) found photographs. One of them, called simply Found, was born one snowy night in Chicago, when Davy Rothbard returned to his car to find under his wiper (雨刷) an angry note intended for someone else: “Why’s your car HERE at HER place?” The note became the starting point for Rothbard’s addictive publication, which features found photographs sent in by readers, such as poster discovered in our drawer.
The whole found-photograph phenomenon has raised some questions. Perhaps one of the most difficult is; can these images really be considered as art? And if so, whose art? Yet found photographs produced by artists, such as Richard Prince, may raise endless possibilities. What was the cowboy in Orince’s Untitled doing? Was he riding his horse hurriedly to meet someone? Or how did Prince create this photograph? It’s anyone’s guess. In addition, as we imagine the back-story to the people in the found photographs artists, like Schmid, have collated (整理), we also turn toward our own photographic albums. Why is memory so important to us? Why do we all seek to freeze in time the faces of our children, our parents, our lovers, and ourselves? Will they mean anything to anyone after we’ve gone?
In the absence of established facts, the vast collections of found photographs give our minds an opportunity to wander freely. That, above all, is why they are so fascinating.
9. The first paragraph of the passage is used to .
A. remind readers of found photographs
B. advise reader to start a new kind of business
C. ask readers to find photographs behind sofa
D. show readers the value of found photographs
10. The underlined word “them” in Para 4 refers to .
A. the readers B. the editors
C. the found photographs D. the self-published magazines
11. By asking a series of questions in Para 5, the author mainly intends to indicate that .
A. memory of the past is very important to people
B. found photographs allow people to think freely
C. the back-story of found photographs is puzzling
D. the real value of found photographs is questionable
12. The author’s attitude towards found photographs can be described as .
A. critical B. doubtful C. optimistic D. satisfied
D
Equipped only with a pair of binoculars (双筒望远镜) and ready to spend long hours waiting in all weathersfor a precious glance of a rare bullfinch (红腹灰雀), Britain’s birdwatchers had long been supposed to be lovers of a minority sport. But new figures show bird-watching is fast becoming a popular pastime, with almost three million of us absorbed in our fluttering (飞来飞去) feathered friends.
Devoted birdwatchers, those prepared to travel thousands of miles for sighting of a rare Siberian bird, are fast being joined by a new breed (类型) of follower whose interest is satiated by watching a few finches (雀科鸣鸟) on a Sunday walk or putting up a bird-box in the back garden.
“Almost three million UK birdwatchers is certainly possible if you include everyone with only a casual interest,” Stephen Moss said in his newly published book——A bird in the Bush: a Social History of Birdwatching——which records the pursuit from the rich Victorian Englishman’s love of shooting rare birds to the less offensive observational tendencies of birdwatchers today.
Television wildlife programmes have helped to fuel the new trend. Last summer, BBC 2’s Britain Goes Wild was a surprise success. It pulled in three million views and led to bird-houses selling out across the UK as 45,000 people promised to put up a box.
Birdwatchers networking system first came to the attention of the nation in 1989, when a birdwatcher caught sight of the first Vermivora chrysoptera— a golden-winged songbirdfrom North America-to be seen in Britain. He put a message out on the network service Birdline, and the next day 3,000 birdwatchers proved the full pull of a truly rare bird as they visited the Tesco car park in Kent., where it had settled. Today, birdwatchers can log on to www.birdline.co.uk or have news of the latest sightingtexted to their phones.
“Multimillion-pound spending on binoculars, bird food and boxes point to the increasing numbers of birdwatchers.” Said David Croack, the editor of Bird Watching magazine “The number of people involved is so big that they have great potential to influence government decisions affecting the environment.”
13. The word “satiated” in paragraph 2 can best be replaced by “ ”.
A. affected B. shared C. satisfied D narrowed
14. What happened after the message offing a Vermivora Chrysoptera was put on the network?
A. Birdwatchers helped the rare bird settle in Kent.
B. Large numbers of birdwatchers went to view the bird.
C. Many birdwatchers logged on to the website for details.
D. Birdwatchers showed their determination to protect the rare bird.
15. Which of the following CANNOT he true according to the passage?
A. Television wildlife programmes started the popular pastime of bird watching.
B. The network service has contributed to the rapid development of bird watching.
C. Birdwatching in Britain was long considered a sport with a small group of followers.
D. The current situation of birdwatching may promote the protection of the environment.
第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Right now you are reading English. That means that you are using your brain in a very active
way. Reading is a very active process. 16 . When you read a text, you have to do some or all of these:
• Imagine a scene in your head
• Understand clearly what the writer is trying to say
• Agree or disagree with the writer
There are also many advantages associated with reading, including:
17
You will usually meet with new words when you read. If there are too many new words for you, then the level is too high and you should read something simpler. But if there are, say, a maximum of five new words per page, you will learn this vocabulary easily. You may not even need to use a pocket dictionary because you can guess the meaning from the rest of the text. 18 .
A model for writing
When you read, it gives you a good example for writing. Texts that you read show you structures and expressions that you can use when you write.
Seeing “correctly structured” English
When people write, they usually use “correct” English with a proper grammatical structure. 19 . So, by reading you see and learn grammatical English naturally.
20
You can read as fast or as slowly as you like. You can read ten pages in 30 minutes, or take one hour to explore just one page. It doesn’t matter. The choice is yours. You can not easily do this when speaking or listening. This is one of the big advantages of reading because different people work at different speeds.
A. Working at your own speed
B. Learning vocabulary in context (语境)
C. This is not always true when people speak
D. Focusing on exactly what you want to learn
E. you should write down unknown vocabulary in whole sentences
F. Not only do you learn new words, but you see them being used naturally
G. It is true that the writer does a lot of work, but the reader also has to work hard
第三部分 英语知识运用
第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
One morning in early fall, I spotted a pair of wild geese on our pond. The beautiful sight caught me by 21 . because we’d never seen geese there before. I wondered where they came from and why they’d 22 our pond.
“As the days passed, I couldn’t 23 getting a closer look and started talking to the geese. They craned their necks and raised their heads 24 but seemed to realize I was a 25 and not an enemy. I felt 26 we were bonding.
One day as they were 27 in the grass near the driveway, I discovered the reason for their 28 —the male had a broken left wing. He was 29 to fly, and his lifelong mate would not leave him 30 . I marveled (惊叹) at the 31 between them.
I asked a wildlife biologist friend what I should 32 . He explained that sometime a
broken wing will heal by itself and suggested letting 33 take its course.
On the first day of November, I was 34 in the vicinity (邻近) of the geese with my tractor. I caught some 35 from the comer of my eye.
Both geese were running toward the pond, wings beating 36 . The geese gained enough altitude to clear a neighbor’s house, then 37 back toward me, flying no more than 50 feet over my head as if to say goodbye. Then they were out of 38 .
I grew 39 them during their stay at our pond, and I miss them. I’ll never forget their 40 to each other. We could all learn a lesson or two from this pair.
21. A. anger B. surprise C. terror D. sorrow
22. A. cleared B. destroyed C. chosen D. disturbed
23. A. resist B. imagine C. escape D. admit
24. A. naturally B. happily C. sadly D. cautiously
25. A. hunter B. helper C. friend D. guard
26. A. whether B. even if C. how D. as though
27. A. jumping B feeding C. working D. growing
28. A. absence B. delay C. visit D. departure
29. A. unable B. curious C. eager D. afraid
30. A. mad B. calm C. around D. behind
31. A. bond B. quarrel C. conflict D. competition
32. A. do B. cure C. share D. check
33. A. chance B. nature C. fate D knowledge
34. A. playing B. experimenting C. working D. fighting
35. A. atmosphere B. division C. response D. movement
36. A. wildly B. occasionally C. slowly D. aimlessly
37. A. floated B. circled C. slid D. skipped
38. A. order B. place C. sight D. control
39. A. angry with B. fond of C. tired of D. grateful to
40. A. sympathy B. objection C. adjustment D. devotion
第二节 完成句子（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
根据提示在空白处填入适当内容，每空不多于三个单词。
41. So (impress) was the lecture that there were no empty seats m the hall, which made a deep impression on us.
42. We obtained permission from the directors to use some of our funds, which (permit) us to do more purchases.
43. Nowadays, women can have children and jobs as well. It’s good to have the two (combine).
44.1 have bought the same dress she is wearing.
45. They walked off, leaving me (seat) there all by myself.
46. The book mainly deals with the trouble teens might have (distinguish) right from wrong.
47. He set sail once again, this time with 25 ships, which only 14 made it to Greenland.
48. Everything (arrange) as you wished, your concert is bound to be successful.
49. We were driving on the road when a big rock rolled down the hill and we only just escaped (hit).
50. Stonehenge is one of the world’s most famous prehistoric monuments which (date) back to over 5,000 years.
第三节 语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
My deskmate admires my fluent English very much and I usually feel 51 (encourage) by his compliments.
One day, 52 we learned the new word “eccentric” in class, we 53 make a sentence with it. I volunteered to do it by saying “My deskmate is an eccentric boy 54 clothe never fit him.” Hearing this, the whole class burst into 55 (laugh) and my deskmate’s face turned red. 56 class, I learned from the teacher that my deskmate 57 (drop) out of school if he hadn’t been helped by others. My mindless words must 58 (hurt) him deeply.
Not until then did 1 realize words could be powerful in 59 positive and negative ways. We should avoid 60 (hurt) others if we can’t always be encouraging them when we speak.
第四部分 写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节 短文改错（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
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（从第11处起）不计分。
For students learned instruments summer is always a “music season”. During vacation time, we are always busy attending various of lessons, taking exams and participating in competitions. This summer I joined in a music competition but was lucky to get the second place. It was the first time that I have played on the stage. In front of the stage was my excited schoolmates. Facing such
many people, I felt very upset at first, but the encourage from my teacher kept me going ahead. Fortunate, I was given a silver medal, that increased my confidence. In short, nothing is impossible to willing heart.
第二节 书面表达（满分25分）
假如你是红星中学的李华，收到来自英国学生Mark的电子邮件，咨询你校暑期为异国学生举办汉语夏令营活动，请通过电子邮件向Mark介绍本次活动，其内容如下：
1.活动时间：7月10日到7月30日：地点：红星中学。
2.活动内容：
•学习日常汉语，可与当地人交流。
•举办各种晚会，了解中国历史和中国传统文化，例如节日…...
•参观博物馆，长城等......
3.活动意义......
注意：
1.词数不少于100；
2.可适当的加入细节，以使内容充实，行文连贯；
3.开头已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Mark,
I feel delighted to get your email,
Yours,
Li Hua
河南省南阳市第一中学2018届高三上学期第二次考试
英语试题答案
阅读1-4 DCBA 5-8 DBCA 9-12 DDBC 13-15 CBA 16-20 GBFCA
完形21-25 BCADC 26-30 DBCAD 31-35 AABCD 36-40 ABCBD
单词拼写41. impressive 42. permitted 43. combined 44. as 45. seated 46. distinguishing
47. of 48. arranged/having been arranged 49. being hit 50. date
语法填空.1. encouraged 2. when 3. were asked 4. whose 5. laughter
6. After 7. would have dropped 8. have hurt 9. both 10. hurting
改错1. learned改为learning 2. 去掉of 或various改为varieties 3. but改为and 4.have改为had
5. was改为were 6.such改为so 7. to改为from 8. Fortunate改为Fortunately 9.that改为which
10. willing前加a
书面表达
Dear Mark,
I feel delighted to get your email, knowing you are so interested in the Chinese Summer Camp to be held in our school from July 10th to July 30th this summer. The content of this Chinese Summer Camp is as follows:
Firstly you will learn everyday Chinese by communicating with Chinese students so that you
can speak simple Chinese with local people. At the same time you will be taught Chinese, with the help of teachers, understanding the meaning of Chinese characters. Secondly you will take part in different parties, knowing the history of China and Chinese culture, especially Chinese holidays, which will impress you deeply. What’s more, you will have chances to visit some museums and tour the Great Wall, experiencing the colorful culture of China and the greatness of the Great Wall.
I believe the Chinese Summer Camp will not only provide the chance for you to study Chinese, but also will promote friendship between us.
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