完形填空专题
江苏南京市、盐城市 2020 届高三上学期第一次模拟考试英语试题
第二节 完形填空(共 20 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 20 分)
请认真阅读下面短文，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
题纸上将该项涂黑。
When I was a child my father taught me five words that I’ve used all my life—in my acting career,
as a mother, in my business activities. If I ___36___ that I was afraid of the dark, or if I seemed
worried about meeting new people, Dad would say, “Stand porter to your ___37___.”
A porter is a gatekeeper, who stands at a door ___38___ people in or out. Dad would get me to
___39___ myself stopping destructive things—such as fear—at the door, ___40___ saying “Come in”
to faith, love and self-assurance.
As a(n) ___41___, before I went on camera, I’d make sure anxiety stayed out and confidence in
my ability came in. As a mother, when I was ___42___ about my children, I would try not to let worry
in but would ___43___ my mind with trust in them.
Of course, there were always times I’d ___44___ those words.
In 1972 my husband, Fillmore Crank, and I opened the doors to our own _____45_____ in North
Hollywood. This was a new business venture for us, and it was a lot more _____46_____ and
complicated than we had _____47_____.
We were on call 24 hours a day. Something was always going _____48_____. Electricity went on
the blink, food wasn’t delivered, employees called in sick. Once, a flu epidemic _____49_____ left us
with no maids. Fillmore gave me a _____50_____: scrub floors or do the laundry. For 10 days I folded
enough king-size sheets to _____51_____ the whole state of California.
Then there was the _____52_____ crisis. The price of gasoline doubled, and tourism in California
_____53_____. How could we fill our beds? What if we kept losing money? What if we failed? Fear
and worry were sneaking in. But I caught them just _____54_____. I stood porter.
I stood in the door of my mind and sent fear packing.
These days at the hotel, whenever fear tries to _____55_____, I just smile and point to the sign
that reads No Vacancy.
36. A. complained B. announced C. recalled D. decided
37. A. future B. find C. family D. studio
38. A. letting B. urging C. inviting D. observing
39. A. busy B. involve C. send D. picture
40. A. so B. and C. but D. or
41. A. official B. actress C. maid D. manager
42. A. serious B. curious C. anxious D. cautious
43. A. fill B. change C. read D. ease
44. A. eat B. twist C. exchange D. forget
45. A. clinic B. hotel C. laundry D. restaurant
46. A. promising B. demanding C. convincing D. boring
47. A. figured B. confirmed C. deduced D. suggested
48. A. sour B. missing C. wrong D. pale
49. A. hardly B. regularly C. specially D. suddenly
50. A. warning B. command C. choice D. solution
51. A. serve B. touch C. decorate D. blanket
52. A. credit B. energy C. identity D. family
53. A. ceased B. recovered C. dropped D. boomed
54. A. in time B. on purpose C. at random D. by chance
55. A. split B. shelter C. withdraw D. register
【答案】36. A 37. B 38. A 39. D 40. C 41. B 42. C 43. A 44. D
45. B 46. B 47. A 48. C 49. D 50. C 51. D 52. B 53. C 54. A
55. D
【解析】
本文为一篇记叙文。记叙了作者在父亲的影响下，战胜生活的困难的几件事。
【36 题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：如果我抱怨我害怕黑暗，或者我担心遇到新的人，爸爸会说，“站在
门房旁边找到自己吧。”A. complained 抱怨；B. announced 宣布；C. recalled 召回；D. decided 决
定。上文写父亲教会我 5 个词，这一句引出寓意。如果作者抱怨，害怕黑暗，或者如果作者看
上去很担心遇见新认识的人。故选 A 项。
【37 题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：如果我抱怨我害怕黑暗，或者我担心遇到新的人，爸爸会说，“站在
门房旁边找到自己吧。”A. future 未来；B. find 让自己处于某种位置或状态；C. family 家庭；D.
studio 工作室。这里的守门处(porter)指的是心理上的守卫，父亲希望作者遇到困难时要找到自己
心理上的守卫。故选 B 项。
【38 题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：门卫是守门人，站在门口让人进出。A. letting 让；B. urging 催促；C.
inviting 邀请；D. observing 观察。一个 porter 就是一位守门员，站在门前让人们进进出出。故选
A 项。
【39 题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：爸爸会让我想象，自己在门口能够阻止破坏性的事情，比如恐惧，
但是对真诚，爱和自信说“进来”。A. busy 忙的；B. involve 参与；C. send 发送；D. picture 想象。
父亲会让作者想象，自己在入口处能够阻止破坏性的事情，例如害怕这种情感。故选 D 项。
【40 题详解】
考查连词词义辨析。句意：爸爸会让我想象，自己在门口能够阻止破坏性的事情，比如恐惧，
但是对真诚，爱和自信要说“进来吧”。A. so 所以；B. and 和；C. but 但是；D. or 或者。表转折，
但是却对着真诚，爱和自信说请，这个填空和上半句为转折关系，所以用转折。故选 C 项。
【41 题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：作为一个女演员，在我走向镜头之前，我会确保焦虑不复存在，对
我的能力有信心。A. official 官员；B. actress 女演员；C. maid 女仆；D. manager 经理。文中的
before I went on camera 以暗示我是女演员。故选 B 项。
【42 题详解】
考查形容词词义辨析。句意：作为一个母亲，当我为我的孩子们感到担忧时，我会试着不让担
忧进入我的脑海，而是让我对他们充满信任。A. serious 严肃的；B. curious 好奇的；C. anxious
焦虑的；D. cautious 谨慎的。前面的 anxious 和后面的 worry 同义替换。故选 C 项。
【43 题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：作为一个母亲，当我为我的孩子们感到担忧时，我会试着不让担忧
进入我的脑海，而是让我对他们充满信任。A. fill 填充；B. change 改变；C. read 阅读；D. ease
放松。由“my mind with trust in them”可知，作者让对他们充满自信。故选 A 项。
【44 题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：当然，有时候我会忘记那些话。A. eat 吃；B. twist 扭；C. exchange
换；D. forget 忘。作者有时候业会忘记那些话。故选 D 项。
【45 题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：1972 年，我和我的丈夫菲尔莫尔·克拉克在北好莱坞开了我们自己的
旅馆。A. clinic 诊所；B. hotel 旅馆；C. laundry 洗衣房；D. restaurant 餐厅。通过后文的食物，
电和雇员出问题，和我换被单推测，作者和丈夫开了他们自己的酒店。故选 B 项。
【46 题详解】
考查形容词词义辨析。句意：这对我们来说是一次新的商业冒险，并且比我们当初预计的要更
加复杂且要求很高。A. promising 有前途的；B. demanding 要求高的；C. convincing 有说服力的；
D. boring 无聊的。由前文“This was a new business venture for us”可知，这对他们来说是一次新的
商业冒险，所有要求比预计的要高的多。故选 B 项。
【47 题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：这对我们来说是一次新的商业冒险，并且比我们当初预计的要更加
复杂。A. figured 计算；B. confirmed 确认；C. deduced 推断；D. suggested 建议。由“it was a lot more
11 and complicated”可知，比我们当初计算的要更加复杂。故选 A 项。
【48 题详解】
考查形容词词义辨析。句意：总是出问题。A. sour 酸 ；B. missing 失踪的；C. wrong 错的；D.
pale 苍白的。根据后文“Electricity went on the blink, food wasn’t delivered, employees called in sick.”
可知，停电了，食物没送到，员工打电话请病假，可知开酒店很复杂，总是出问题。故选 C 项。
【49 题详解】
考查副词词义辨析。句意：有一次，一场流感突然让我们的服务员人手不够。A. hardly 几乎不；
B. regularly 经常地；C. specially 特别地；D. suddenly 突然地。由“ left us with no maids”可知，一
场流感突然让我们的服务员人手不够。故选 D 项。
【50 题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：菲尔莫给了我一个选择：擦地板还是洗衣服。A. warning 警告；B.
command 命令；C. choice 选择；D. solution 解决。结合后文，擦地板还是洗衣服，可知此处为
一个选择。故选 C 项。
【51 题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：整整 10 天，我叠了足够的特大号床单，足可覆盖整个加利福尼亚州。
A. serve 服务；B. touch 触摸；C. decorate 装饰；D. blanket 覆盖。此处夸张的手法，作者的特大
号床单可以覆盖整个加利福尼亚州。故选 D 项。
【52 题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：然后就是能源危机。A. credit 信用；B. energy 能源；C. identity 身份；
D. family 家庭。由下文“The price of gasoline doubled”可知，出现了能源危机。故选 B 项。
【53 题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：汽油价格翻了一番，加州的旅游业也下降了。A. ceased 停止；B.
recovered 恢复；C. dropped 下降；D. boomed 繁荣。油价翻倍，加利福尼亚州的旅游业下降。这
都是不利的方面。故选 C 项。
【54 题详解】
考查介词短语词义辨析。句意：但我及时地控制住它们。A. in time 及时；B. on purpose 故意地；
C. at random 任意地；D. by chance 偶然。由下文“I stood in the door of my mind and sent fear
packing”可知，作者时地控制住它们。故选 A 项。
【55 题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：这几天在酒店，每当害怕来登记时，我就微笑着指着上面写着“没有
空房”的牌子。A. split 分开；B. shelter 掩蔽；C. withdraw 撤回；D. register 登记。这道题用了‘双
关’的写作手法：一说自己空房，二是说自己不让自己害怕降临；并且旅馆都是要登记的。故选
D 项。
江苏省南京市盐城市 2019 届高三英语第一次模拟考试试题
第二节 完形填空（共 20 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 20 分）
请认真阅读下面短文，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。
I first started writing in the summer of 1998. Back then I was a teacher. After years of dreaming, I
decided it was finally time to write a book. For 10 years I wrote, 36 four middle-grade novels
and six picture books almost only to editors. This was 37 in the snail-mail age. Remember the
38 you experienced as a child waiting for birthday presents to arrive in the mail? That was me for
the better part of a decade.
In Spring 2009, at the last minute, I decided to hand in a middle-grade historical novel-in-verse to
a 39 at a local writing conference. I knew in my heart that it was my 40 work, but I wasn’t
sure how it would be 41 alongside pieces meant for the adult market. But then—I won. My prize
42 a one-on-one interview with an editor who, after 43 my manuscript, asked, “Why don’t
you have a(n) 44 yet?”
Not long after that, I 45 with my first agent. Then in 2013, after parting with my first agent,
I was again faced with the 46 for representation. This time I submitted to three agencies and got
two 47 . Over the span of 20 years, I’ve got 18 completed manuscripts and was 48 almost
350 times. It took me 14 years to see my first book 49 the shelf. You could look at these numbers
and get pretty 50 . I can look at these numbers and feel the same. I know plenty of people with a
51 apprenticeship (学徒期). I have friends who have been more 52 . All sorts of authors I
53 with in 2012 have published far more than I have. But here’s the 54 thing I’ve learned in
the last 20 years: My process is mine. My journey is mine. Each book finds its way on its own.
The writing life is a long-term journey. There is no right way. There is no 55 fix. There is no
easy road. There is a lot of frustration and disappointment, but there is joy and satisfaction, too.
36. A. submitting B. lending C. keeping D. presenting
37. A. soon B. back C. already D. later
38. A. appreciation B. entertainment C. anticipation D. embarrassment
39. A. publisher B. newspaper C. reception D. competition
40. A. initial B. casual C. innovative D. subjective
41. A. criticized B. processed C. received D. distributed
42. A. followed B. included C. ensured D. confirmed
43. A. correcting B. polishing C. monitoring D. reviewing
44. A. agent B. client C. instructor D. fan
45. A. signed B. bargained C. dealt D. reasoned
46. A. excuse B. affection C. hunt D. request
47. A. offers B. substitutions C. professions D. complaints
48. A. registered B. rejected C. defeated D. deserted
49. A. under B. beside C. off D. on
50. A. amused B. inspired C. touched D. frustrated
51. A. longer B. heavier C. shorter D. newer
52. A. famous B. intelligent C. enthusiastic D. productive
53. A. debated B. mixed C. cooperated D. disagreed
54. A. key B. handy C. funny D. lively
55. A. temporary B. quick C. possible D. flexible
第二节 完形填空（共 20 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 20 分）
36. A 37. B 38. C 39. D 40. C 41. C 42. B 43. D 44. A 45. A
46. C 47. A 48. B 49. D 50. D 51. C 52. D 53. B 54. A 55. B
江苏省南京市、盐城市 2018 届高三第一次模拟考试英语试题
第二节 完形填空（共 20 小题：每小题 1 分，满分 20 分）
请认真阅读下列短文，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。
When Katherine and her daughter drove past Katherine’s beloved old home, she would say, “I’d
like to have that house back” On her 90th birthday, that wish came true.
All Katherine wanted for her 90th birthday was to 36 her childhood home. Her daughter,
Emily wasn’t so 37 on the idea. And, as the old saying goes, you can 38 really go home
again. However, the mom and daughter often drove from their 39 town to cruise past Katherine’s
beloved old home.
One day, as Emily visited her local craft store, inspiration 40 her: Her mother could have
her house back---in replica (复制品) 41 . Emily connected with Ray Meyers, a local retired dentist
with a 42 for woodworking. Ray took precise measurements and 43 details with the help
of the current homeowners.
The replica home and the amazing story behind it deserved a special 44 . Emily arranged a
surprise party at which the replica and Katherine would be 45 . But keeping Katherine in the
46 was a painful task.
“Ray would ask me questions about the house,” Emily says of the planning 47 . “I couldn’t
remember everything 48 the last time I was inside was when I was a teenager. I would 49
Mother and start a conversation where I would say, ‘Oh, by the way, do you remember…’ and ask her
something about the house. She would give details from her memory about the 50 and the color.
She would tell me 51 what something looked like or where it was in the house.”[来源:Z.Com]
On the very day, Emily went to 52 Katherine to her house. “When we went inside, I was
just 53 .” Katherine says. “There was a house load of people singing ‘Happy Birthday’ to me.”
Emily presented Katherine with the carefully 54 replica home.
“I just couldn’t believe it,” Katherine says. “I have 55 memories of that house. I have had
several family dinners where we eat around it. I now turn on the tiny lights within it. It’s so pretty.” For
Katherine, it turned out that it is possible to go home again.
36. A. access B. decorate C. build D. own
37. A. keen B. soft C. dependent D. hard
38. A. generally B. sometimes C. frequently D. never
39. A. primary B. temporary C. current D.
permanent
40. A. overcame B. struck C. failed D. amazed[ 来 源 : 学 科
网]
41. A. appearance B. pattern C. outline D. form
42. A. basis B. preference C. talent D. hunger
43. A. composed B. compiled C. committed D. compared
44. A. mention B. analysis C. research D. inspection
45. A. congratulated B. appreciated C. exhibited D. honored
46. A. back B. shadows C. clouds D. dark
47. A. expectation B. process C. advance D. destination
48. A. because B. till C. as if D. so that
49. A. visit with B. stick with C. deal with D. hold with
50. A. management B. equipment C. arrangement D. measurement
51. A. briefly B. partly C. thoroughly D. vaguely
52. A. fetch B. join C. welcome D. receive
53. A. embarrassed B. shocked C. inspired D. confused
54. A. sorted B. wrapped C. folded D. restored
55. A. recent B. distant C. fond D. selective
36-40 DADCB 41-45 DCBAD 46-50 DBAAC 51-55 CABBC
江苏省南京市盐城市 2017 届高三英语第一次模拟考试试题
第三部分 阅读理解（共 15 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 30 分）
请认真阅读下列短文，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。
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In 1880, the traveller and journalist Lafcadio Hearn was living in New Orleans and writing for a
couple of local papers, Daily City Item and Times-Democrat. Hearn sensed that New Orleans exists in
a state of insidious disintegration ( 蜕 变 ) — “crumbling into ashes” — thanks to its dangerous
geography and its “frauds and maladministrations.” And yet, Hearn wrote to a friend, “It is better to
live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio.” New Orleanians have always
resembled New Yorkers; they tend to share the sense that to live anywhere else would lead inevitably
to a stupid and pitiable existence beyond the bounds of understanding.
In part, the spirit of New Orleans is rooted in the city’s below-sea-level unsteadiness, the
condition of looking out — and even up — at the water all around you, the knowledge that water
saturates (浸透) the ground you stand on. Katrina, the fierce hurricane that destroyed the Gulf Coast
on August 29, 2005, tested the self-possession of every citizen who survived it. More than eighteen
hundred people did not survive it, and hundreds of thousands lost their homes. The stormand the
terrible flooding that followed — a natural disaster worsened by a range of man-made disasters —
revealed much that had been fragile, or rotten, in Hearn’s time and grew worse with every decade:
shabby civil engineering; corrupt and inefficient government institutions; and it turned out thatan
Administration in Washington witnessedfor days a city drowning — a largely black city drowning —
and reacted with annoying indifference. And yet, in the face of abandonment — in hospitals, on
rooftops, on highway overpasses — the residents of New Orleans behaved with resilience (不折不挠).
Rebecca Solnit, an acute observer of Katrina and its aftermath, has written, “The belief that a
Hobbesian war of all-against-all had broken loose justified treating the place as a crime zone or even
an unfriendly country rather than a place in which grandmothers and children were trapped in frightful
conditions, desperately in need of food, water, shelter and medical attention.”
Alec Soth, a photographer who lives in Minneapolis and travels the Midwest and the South with
the energy of a latter-day Walker Evans, did not join the artists who came to New Orleans a decade ago
to capture what he calls the “eye candy of rot and ruin.” Instead, he waited, preferring to capture the
city of water ten years later, a city in a state of both persistent suffering and persistent renewal. Soth
shows us the upsetting image of a freestanding column — all that is left of a house in the hard-hit
Lower Ninth Ward — but he moves toward a vision of promise, a lonely figure at his leisure, staring
into the waters of today’s New Orleans.
58. New Orleanians are similar to New Yorkers in that ______.
A. they refuse to leave their homeland B. they exist in insidious disintegration
C. they possess dangerous geography D. they have a sense of boring existence
59. What can we know from the hurricane Katrina and its damaging consequences?
A. A range of man-made disasters led to the fierce hurricane.
B. The hurricane happened following a terrible flooding.
C. The American government failed to provide help and support.
D. The residents of New Orleans have a deep hatred for governors.
60. Why did Alec Soth refuse to join other artists to take photos of New Orleans a decade ago?
A. He also treated New Orleans as a crime zone.
B. He had high expectations of the future of New Orleans.
C. He couldn’t put up with the suffering the hurricane caused.
D. He was traveling the Midwest and the South with Walker Evans.
C
A little social support from your best buds goes a long way, whether you’re a human or a
chimpanzee (黑猩猩). A new study that followed a chimpanzee community in the forests of Uganda
has found that quality time with close companions significantly decreased stress hormone levels in the
primates — whether they were resting, grooming or facing off against rival groups.
The findings, described this week in the journal Nature Communications, shed light on the
physiological effects of close companionship in chimpanzees — and could have implications for
human health too.
Researchers have long known that stress can worsen health and raise the risk of early death in
humans as well as other social mammals.
“It can have effects on immune function, cardio function, fertility, cognition, and even your
mood,” said study coauthor Kevin Langergraber, a primatologist at Arizona State University.
Maintaining close social bonds can help these animals (humans included) reduce some of that
stress, potentially minimizing some health risks. But scientists have yet to pin down the exact
physiological mechanisms at work.
“Social bonds make you survive and produce better — but how do they do that?” Langergraber
said.
To find out, the international team of researchers studied members of the Sonso chimpanzee
community in Uganda’s Budongo Forest, a group consisting of 15 males, 35 females and 28 juveniles
and infants during the study period from February 2008 to July 2010.
Like humans, chimpanzees tend to have besties — bond partners with whom they appear to feel
close. The researchers wanted to see whether interactions with these bond partners led to lower stress
levels during particularly stressful situations, such as when fighting rival groups, or whether time spent
with friends helped lower stress levels more generally, throughout the day.
The scientists observed the chimps perform three types of activities: resting, grooming or
quarrelling with other groups of chimps. The researchers kept track of whether the chimps were doing
any of these three things with their bond partners or with other chimps in their group.
A team of up to six observers watched the chimps and followed them around to collect urine (尿
液) samples. The samples, collected from nine adult male and eight adult female chimps, were tested
to see how much of the stress hormone cortisol they contained.
The scientists found that chimpanzees’ levels of urinary cortisol were 23% lower, on average,
during the activities when they were with their bond partner. This was especially true for stressful
activities, such as the intergroup rivalries, where any chimp on the front line might face physical harm
or even death.
The findings in chimpanzees, some of our closest living relatives, could shed light on the role
such close social relationships play in human health too, he said. Such friendships may be just as
important during good times as bad — though more research needs to be done before any conclusions
can be drawn.
“This has interest for a lot of people in a medical context as well,” Langergraber said.
61. The scientists carried out a research into chimpanzee community in Uganda ______.
A. to seek evidence of benefits of social bonds from physiological angle
B. to uncover whether social bonds make humans survive
C. to study how chimps perform three types of activities
D. to train chimps to maintain close social bonds with each other
62. What does the underlined word “they” in Paragraph 10 refer to?
A. Observers. B. Chimpanzees.
C. Urine samples. D. Bond partners.
63. The chimps’ levels of urinary cortisol decrease most when ______.
A. they are with other chimps in their group
B. they face the intergroup rivalries with friends
C. they perform three different types of activities
D. they spend time with friends throughout the day
64. What’s the author’s purpose in writing the passage?
A. To point out stress is harmful to all social mammals.
B. To illustrate how chimps control their stress level.
C. To urge scientists to do more research into chimpanzees.
D. To inform us friendships benefit both chimps and humans.
D
Dad and I loved baseball and hated sleep. One midsummer dawn when I was nine, we drove to
the local park with our baseballs, gloves, and Yankees caps.
“If you thought night baseball was a thrill, just wait,” Dad told me. “Morning air carries the ball
like you’ve never seen.”
He was right. Our fastballs charged faster and landed more lightly. The echoes of our catches
popped as the sun rose over the dew-sprinkled fields.
The park was all ours for about two hours. Then a young mother pushed her stroller toward us.
When she neared, Dad politely leaned over the stroller, waved, and gave the baby his best smile.
The mother stared at him for a second, and then rushed away.
Dad covered his mouth with his hand and walked to the car. “Let’s go, bud,” he said. “I’m not
feeling well.”
A month earlier, Bell’s palsy (贝尔氏神经麻痹) had struck Dad, paralyzing the right side of his
face. It left him slurring words and with a droopy eyelid. He could hardly drink from a cup without
spilling onto his shirt. And his smile,which once eased the pain of playground cuts and burst forth at
the mention of Mick Jagger, Woody Allen, or his very own Yankees, was gone.
As I slumped in the car, I began suspecting that our sunrise park visit wasn’t about watching
daylight lift around us. This was his effort to avoid stares.
It was a solemn drive home.
After that day, Dad spent more time indoors. He left the shopping, driving, and Little League
games to Mom. A freelance editor, he turned our dining room into his office and buried himself in
manuscripts. He no longer wanted to play catch.
At physical therapy, Dad obeyed the doctor: “Now smile as wide as you can. Now lift your right
cheek with your hand. Now try to whistle.”
Only the sound of blowing air came out. My earliest memories were of Dad whistling to Frank
Sinatra or Bobby McFerrin. He always whistled. He had taught me to whistle too.
Of the roughly 40,000 Americans suffering Bell’s palsy every year, most recover in several weeks.
Other cases take a few months to heal. But after nine weeks of therapy, the doctor confessed she
couldn’t help Dad.
“I’ve never seen anything like this,” she told him after his final session. Then she handed him the
bill.
Dad coped through humor. He occasionally grabbed erasable markers and drew an even-sided
wide smile across his face. Other times, he practiced his Elvis impersonation, joking that his curled lips
allowed him to perfect his performance of “Hound Dog”.
By the time I entered fourth grade that September, Dad could blink his right eye and speak clearly
again. But his smile still hadn’t returned. So I made a secret vow: I would abstain from smiles of any
kind.
Nothing about fourth grade made this easy. Classmates were both old enough to laugh about pop
culture and young enough to appreciate fart jokes. Kids called me Frowny the Dwarf. (I was three foot
ten.) Teachers accompanied me into hallways, asking what was wrong. Breaking the promise I had
made myself was tempting, but I couldn’t let Dad not smile alone.
When I asked my PE coach, “What’s so great about smiling?” he made me do push-ups while the
rest of the class played Wiffle ball. Then he called Dad.
I never learned what they discussed. But when I got off the school bus that afternoon, I saw Dad
waiting for me, holding ourgloves and ball. For the first time in months, we got in the family car and
went to the park for a catch.
“It’s been too long,” he said.
Roughly a half-dozen fathers and sons lined the field with gloved arms in the air. Dad couldn’t
smile, but he beamed, and so did I. Sundown came quickly. The field’s white lights glowed, and
everyone else left. But Dad and I threw everything from curve balls to folly floaters into the night. We
had catching up to do.
65. Why did Father choose to play baseballs one summer dawn?
A. They could perform better in the morning.
B. He tried to escape others’ attention to his face.
C. Morning air was more suitable for playing baseball.
D. The park was empty and they could enjoy themselves.
66. The underlined phrase “abstain from” in Paragraph 16 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. seek for B. recover from C. give up D. break into
67. What can we infer from the underlined sentence in Paragraph 17?
A. The boy lost his ability to smile.
B. The boy must have suffered many wrongs.
C. The boy couldn’t appreciate pop culture.
D. The boy tried his best to make Father smile.
68. Why did the father accompany his son to the park for a catch that night?
A. He had made a complete recovery.
B. He thought night baseball was a thrill.
C. He intended his son to return to normal.
D. He was instructed by the PE coach to do so.
69. Which of the following can best describe the author’s father?
A. Selfless and lucky. B.Generous and determined.
C. Sensitive and stubborn. D. Responsible and humorous.
70. What is the best title for the passage?
A. Losing my father’s smile B. Making a hidden secret
C. Playing baseball in the morning D. Recovering from a face illness
56. B 57. D 58. A 59. C 60. B 61. A 62. C 63. B 64. D 65. B
66. C 67. B 68. C 69. D 70. A
江苏省南京盐城市 2016 届高三英语第一次模拟考试试题
第三部分 阅读理解（共 15 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 30 分）
请认真阅读下列短文，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。
A
It might sound unbelievable that two kids under the age of ten would choose to hang out at a hotel
instead of going to Disney World, just minutes away, but that’s exactly what happened when we
visited the new Four Seasons Resort Orlando at Walt Disney World Resort last month. What kind of
a hotel makes kids forget about Disney World?
Check In: As I was signing the necessary paperwork at the front desk, my kids were taken away
by Wayne, the receptionist, to a large interactive map of the resort in the entrance hall. Wayne used the
touch screen to show the kids the entire resort and talked about all of the fun things to do, like the kid’s
club, the waterslides, and the game room. I’ve never seen so much attention paid to the kids at
check-in — such a cool touch.
The Room: Not only were there kid-sized robes in the room, there were play things, NatGeo
Kids magazines, chocolate lollypops, and milk chilling in the refrigerator. Plus, the room was designed
from a family perspective. The sinks and shower settings were easily reachable, and the king bed and
very comfortable sofa pull-out could easily fit a family of four, if not five. We had plenty of room.
The Pools: There’s a large shallow infinity pool. There’s a meandering lazy river. There’s a water
park. There’s an area for pool volleyball and basketball. And there are two very fun waterslides. We
spent many hours roaming among them all, and just hanging out in a private teepee-shaped cabana
next to the waterslides. So fun!
No Surcharges: There’s no resort fee. If you want to use one of the cool cabanas around the
pools, it’s included. For the kids club, you can use it as much or as little as you want to and the
Hideout game room has a lot of activities, like pinball, at no cost. We took advantage of pretty much
everything around the hotel except for the spa, and our final bill only showed our room charges, taxes,
and meals. And if my kids were still under five, their meals would have been free.
56. The passage is written by the author mainly to ________.
A. advertise a hotel at Walt Disney World Resort
B. introduce the good service Walt Disney provides
C. recall the experience that they once had in a hotel
D. share information about a hotel near Disney World
57. Customers don’t need to pay for ________ when they stay in the hotel.
A. cool cabanas B. rooms C. the spa D. taxes
58. What can we learn from the passage?
A. The hotel isn’t an ideal choice for a family of more than four.
B. The two kids of the author should have been over five years old.
C. The author spent hours playing pool volleyball and basketball.
D. The receptionist showed children around Disney World Resort.
B
More than 100 million people in Nigeria are not connected to the Internet. There are only a few
networks that offer service and it is costly and undependable. Now, a new project provides a resource
for offline viewing at no cost.
A non-profit organization called The WiderNet Project has developed the offline eGranary Digital
Library. The service puts millions of digital documents, multimedia work and websites onto a server.
The information is then available to students, medical workers, and researchers at no cost, whether
there is Internet or not.
Users can access informative websites that eGranary updates every day such as Wikipedia, Khan
Academy, Project Gutenberg, MIT OpenCourseWare, and MIT BLOSSOMS (which is Math and
Science video lessons for high school students). Other resources on the service include university and
medical publications, computer software, and educational games.
Ahmadu Bello University, the largest university in Nigeria and the second largest in Africa, uses
eGranary’s digital educational resources. Kasa Mathias, head of the school’s database department, says
students can access tens of thousands of educational materials without much problem.
“We give them background information on the available databases that they can use for their
research work, their assignments, especially projects, and sometimes we will carry them through
sensitizing (激活) on new databases that are available for them.”
Ibitoye Idowu, a first-year student of archeology, says easy access to university reading material,
documents and journals has greatly helped his studying process, and that in some cases, he understands
the digital materials better than class lectures.
Students now have great reading material, but only when there is electric power. It often fails.
Student Ibitoye Idowu says those moments are difficult.
Muhammed Mu’azu who leads the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department says the
university has spent a large amount of money on access to information, which is available for 40,000
students and teachers.
“With or without Internet access students and staff have most of these educational databases and
university has also invested a lot in Internet access so even for online materials they are readily
available for staff and students anywhere you are in the university campus.”
There are fears that students may waste time on social media networks like Facebook and Twitter
instead of spending it on school work. Professor Mu’azu says the university needs to be careful about
placing restrictions on usage. But he says it will investigate what a user is accessing if a large amount
of bandwidth is used.
Muhammed Mu’azu compares the speed of the offline service to access over the Internet. The
eGranary server can download hundreds of pages in less than 15 minutes. In the past, a 10-page
document would take hours to download.
WiderNet says it aims to expand to thousands more education and health centers around the world.
59. The eGranary Digital Library is mainly intended for ________.
A. poor people in Nigeria B. Ahmadu Bello University
C. teachers and staff of a university D. people who can’t access the Internet
60. The underlined word “them” in Paragraph 5 probably refers to ________.
A. educational materials B. available databases
C. assignments and projects D. university students
61. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Offline eGranary Digital Library is available to over 100 million people in Nigeria now.
B. A university needs to pay for the service of eGranary Digital Library to offer it to students.
C. The power supply becomes the main challenge students face when using offline project.
D. Education and health centers in the world will all use eGranary’s digital educational resources.
C
Scientists have known for decades that having measles (麻疹) suppresses kids’ immune systems
for several weeks or months, leaving them ill-equipped to fight off pneumonia, bronchitis and other
infections.
Now a team of researchers has suggested that the measles virus may also leave a longer-lasting sort of
“immune-amnesia” that makes it harder for people to stave off other illnesses for two years or more.
That re-emphasizes the importance of vaccination ( 疫 苗 ), said biologist Michael Mina, lead
author of a paper that was published in the journal Science.
“There may be a long-lasting impact that you can’t undo if your child gets measles,” he said. “I
hope this study can impress upon people the danger measles poses.”
The researchers used what Mina called “an unconventional approach” to search for the
long-lasting immune system effects. Previous work in monkeys suggested that monkeys with the
disease lost white blood cells their bodies had trained to fight off other illnesses, leaving them more
likely to be infected.
To test if a similar thing may occur in humans, the group mined historical data to find out the
relationship between measles incidence (发病率) and deaths from other infectious diseases.
They turned to data from England and Wales — developed nations where disease levels are
generally low, allowing a less-confused view of measles’ effects. Studying measles incidence and
deaths from infectious disease both before and after the introduction of the measles vaccine in the U.K.
in the 1960s, Mina and the team saw a sort of shadow effect, where deaths from a variety of
non-measles infectious diseases closely tracked measles incidence. The more measles in a population,
the more deaths from other illnesses in the 28-month period that followed.
“Really it didn’t matter what age group, what decade or what country,” said Mina. “They all
showed consistent results … what we’re suggesting happens over the long term is that your immune
system works fine, but it has forgotten what it previously learned.”
Some researchers who were not involved in the work questioned whether the reductions in deaths
as measles cases declined may have had more to do with improving nutrition and smaller family size
than with prolonged immune suppression.
Others thought the paper’s opinion of years-long suppression was seemingly reasonable but said
they could not comment on the mathematical models the group used.
To know for certain what was behind the effect the group saw, Mina agreed, scientists would need
to look at immune cells and observe their behavior. He said he would like to push the work in a more
traditional direction: back into the laboratory.
62. Why did Mina call their research method “an unconventional approach”?
A. Their research was based on the historical data.
B. Their research compared monkeys with humans.
C. They only paid attention to developed nations.
D. They discovered a sort of shadow effect.
63. According to Mina, what is the significance of their research?
A. They warned people that measles can result in other infectious diseases.
B. They carried out the research on measles in an unconventional approach.
C. They showed how dangerous measles is and the importance of vaccination.
D. They found out the disease levels are generally low in developed nations..
64. The underlined phrase “stave off” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ________.
A. keep away B. survive from C. search for D. turn down
65. Which of the following may be the best title of the passage?
A. Measles has been the origin of other diseases and deaths
B. New research conducted into measles has been widely questioned
C. Study points to years-long immune system misfortunes from measles
D. Damage caused by measles to the immune system could last several weeks
D
Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich, born on 31 May 1948, is a Belarusian investigative journalist
and non-fiction prose writer, writing in Russian. She was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature
“for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time”. She is the first writer
from Belarus to receive the award.
Alexievich grew up in Belarus. After finishing school she worked as a reporter in several local
newspapers before graduating from Belarusian State University and becoming a journalist for the
literary magazine Neman in Minsk.
She went on to a career in journalism and writing narratives from interviews with witnesses to the
most dramatic events in the country, such as World War II, the Soviet–Afghan War, the fall of the
Soviet Union, and the Chernobyl disaster. After political persecution ( 迫 害 ) by the Lukashenko
administration, she left Belarus in 2000. The International Cities of Refuge Network offered her shelter
and during the following decade she lived in Paris, Gothenburg and Berlin. In 2011, Alexievich moved
back to Minsk.
According to Russian writer and critic Dmitry Bykov, her books owe much to the ideas of
Belarusian writer Ales Adamovich, who felt that the best way to describe the horrors of the 20th
century was not by creating fiction but through recording the evidence of witnesses. Belarusian poet
Uladzimir Nyaklyayew called Adamovich “her literary godfather”. He also named the documentary
novel I’m from the Burned Village by Ales Adamovich, Janka Bryl and Uladzimir Kalesnik, about the
villages burned by the Nazi troops during the occupation of Belarus, as the main single book that has
influenced Alexievich’s attitude to literature. Alexievich admitted the influence of Adamovich and
added, among others, Belarusian writer Vasil Bykaŭ as another source of impact on her. Her most
notable works in English translation include a collection of first-hand accounts from the war in
Afghanistan (Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from a Forgotten War) and a highly praised oral history of the
Chernobyl disaster (Voices from Chernobyl).
Alexievich describes the theme of her works this way: If you look back at the whole of our history,
both Soviet and post-Soviet, it is a huge common grave and a blood bath. An eternal dialogue of the
executioners and the victims. The accursed Russian questions: what is to be done and who is to blame.
The revolution, the gulags, the Second World War, the Soviet–Afghan war hidden from the people, the
downfall of the great empire, the downfall of the giant socialist land, the land-utopia, and now a
challenge of cosmic dimensions — Chernobyl. This is a challenge for all the living things on earth.
Such is our history. And this is the theme of my books, this is my path, my circles of hell, from man to
man.
Her first book, War’s Unwomanly Face, came out in 1985. It was repeatedly reprinted and sold
more than two million copies. The book was finished in 1983 and published (in short edition) in
Oktyabr, a Soviet monthly literary magazine, in February 1984. In 1985, the book was published by
several publishers, and the number of printed copies reached 2,000,000 in the next five years. This
novel is made up of monologues (独白) of women in the war speaking about the aspects of World War
II that had never been related before. Another book, The Last Witnesses: the Book of Unchildlike
Stories, describes personal memories of children during war time. The war seen through women’s and
children’s eyes revealed a new world of feelings. In 1993, she published Enchanted with Death, a book
about attempted and completed suicides due to the downfall of the Soviet Union. Many people felt
inseparable from the Communist ideology and unable to accept the new order surely and the newly
interpreted history.
Her books were not published by Belarusian state-owned publishing houses after 1993, while
private publishers in Belarus have only published two of her books: Voices from Chernobyl in 1999
and Second-hand Time in 2013, both translated into Belarusian. As a result, Alexievich has been better
known in the rest of world than in Belarus.
66. According to the passage, Alexievich was able to win the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature mainly
because ________.
A. she is superior to other writers in literature
B. she is the greatest journalist all over the world
C. she witnessed the most dramatic events in Belarus
D. her works reflected the suffering and courage in her time
67. Who played a significant role in Alexievich’s literary world?
A. Ales Adamovich and Vasil Bykaŭ. B. Dmitry Bykov and Ales Adamovich.
C. Uladzimir Kalesnik and Janka Bryl. D. Vasil Bykaŭ and Uladzimir Nyaklyayew.
68. Which of the following is TRUE about Alexievich’s first book?
A. It was not until 5 years later that the book was well received.
B. It is written from the viewpoint of women and children involved in the war.
C. It was first published by Belarusian state-owned publishing houses in 1984.
D. It reveals something unknown about World War II to the public.
69. What can we know from the theme of Alexievich’s works?
A. She discusses who is to blame for the wars in her works.
B. She takes a practical view of the future for her motherland.
C. Her works show sorrow and sympathy for war victims and her country.
D. Her works merely focused on the disasters the Belarusian experienced.
70. What can be inferred from the passage?
A. Some people were dependent on the Soviet Union with affection.
B. Women and children are the main characters of Alexievich’s works.
C. Voices from Chernobyl published in 1999 was written in Belarusian.
D. Alexievich has been highly respected by the Lukashenko administration.
第三部分 (共 15 小题；每小题 2 分，共 30 分)
56. D 57. A 58. B 59. D 60. D 61. C 62. A 63. C 64. A 65. C
66. D 67. A 68. D 69. C 70. A
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