(2014秋)高三广东专版必修四Modules 1-2综合能力测试题

（2014秋）高三·广东专版

必修4 Modules 1-2综合能力测试题

I语言知识及应用（共两节，满分45分）

第一节完形填空（共1 5小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡将该项涂黑。

Two weeks ago my grandfather passed away. I was saddened __1__ because my grandfather held unique position in my life. For me, my grandpa was not only a __2__ family member but a tutor who __3__ me to work hard and write well.

I?ll never forget the first time when I read a long piece of his writing. When I applied to Princeton, he __4__ to write to the university on my behalf. He wrote in beautiful characters and poetic language. I was so __5__ to read out the letter loud so I could hear the rhyming sounds.

My grandfather __6__ hard work. Every time he came to visit us in New York, he would praise my brothers and me for our good performances, which made me feel __7__. I knew he had worked hard to __8__ during the Great Depression when our country was poor. He was also awarded many military medals for winning many battles in the Navy in World War II.

At the __9__, a friend of my grandfather?s walked to me and said __10__ that my grandfather had spoken with him about a small book I had __11__. After it was printed I sent it to my grandfather but received no __12__. I did not think much of it, but this man told me that my book hit my grandfather?s __13__ and brought tears to his eyes. My grandfather said he was so proud of me.

I feel __14__ that his friend came and told me how my grandfather felt. Now I feel it even more necessary to write well because I know he __15__ it. I know he lives in my heart forever.

1. A. deeply B. really C. fairly D. strangely

2. A. strict B. beloved C. happy D. devoted

3. A. permitted B. forced C. encouraged D. preferred

4. A. invited B. remembered C. offered D. asked

5. A. proud B. shy C. pitiful D. strange

6. A. demanded B. valued C. ignored D. deserved

7. A. inspired B. nervous C. annoyed D. worried

8. A. escape B. help C. succeed D. change

9. A. party B. funeral C. ceremony D. picnic

10. A. plentifully B. greatly C. simply D. comfortably

11. A. read B. sold C. written D. collected

12. A. information B. award C. reply D. letter

13. A. head B. heart C. hand D. eye

14. A. lucky B. surprised C. sad D. disturbed

15. A. needed B. realized C. remembered D. appreciated

第二节语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分1 5分）

阅读下列短文，根据上下文在空白处填写适当的词语，或使用括号中所给词语的适当形式填空。答案填写在答题卡上标号为16-25的对应位置。

This is a story about hope and strength.

The war was going on. Men were fighting __16__ (violence); women were carrying food to soldiers day and night, nursing the injured. In the village, only old people and children remained.

One old man took an old plough (犁) and started sharpening and mending __17__ while singing something, His wife was annoyed and said to him, “You have a stone heart! Your sons joined __18__ deadly battle; the village is in mourning; your comrades are thinking about the fate of the village; and you, __19__ (know) this, are still mending the plough, also —as ever your soul allows —singing a song. I just want to ask you a question —__20__ whom are you trying to do all this? Tomorrow the enemy will come here They will kill you and us too, and they will take your plough.”

“Woman, what are you saying? They will kill us, __21__ not the plough. I?m building it —not destroying it. The world is resting on this plough: if we survive, we will need the plough __22__ (much), and if we die, maybe the love for labor will awaken in those __23__ will take it. Maybe even I will __24__ (bless) by God this time. We don?t know __25__ will happen to this world.”

II 阅读（共两节，满分50分）

第一节阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40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。

A

Craig Beck struggled to control his drinking for 20 years because he refused to describe himself as an alcoholic all the time. As a matter of fact, it was damaging his health, wealth and relationships seriously during these years.

He tried a lot of ways to cut it down and even banned himself from drinking. However, he failed one after another. Slowly he discovered the truth about alcohol addiction. All the lies he had believed before started to fall apart. For the first time he noticed that he didn?t want to drink anymore.

After he stopped drinking, he helped more people stop drinking too much. He began to be regarded as “The Stop Drinking Expert”. Then Craig Beck published books about how to stop drinking, which have been translated into many different languages and continue to be among the best-selling books around the world.

Craig Beck proudly shows people that this is not a case of having to force himself not to drink. There is no willpower required by his stopping drinking system and people simply find that they no longer want to drink any more. A lot of people who read his books at first think the news is too good to be true, but they find that the old saying “No pains, no gains” does not apply here. This is why his method is regarded by thousands as the best treatment for stopping drinking in the world.

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>Craig Beck

Genre(s):

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Time: 4hrs 15mins Year: 2012

26. Craig Beck wanted to cut down drinking because _______.

A. it made him feel cheated

B. it made him lose everything

C. he couldn?t afford it any more

D. he found that it affected his life

27. Which of the following best describes Craig Beck?

A. Humorous.

B. Warm-hearted.

C. Peace-loving.

D. Impatient.

28. Which of the following is TRUE?

A. Craig Beck may help many people stop drinking easily.

B. Craig Beck forced himself to stop drinking and succeeded.

C. Craig Beck never found it difficult to give up drinking.

D. Craig Beck wasn?t an alcoholic before stopping drinking.

29. According to the passage, we can know that Craig Beck?s books _______.

A. are so good that they cannot be true

B. are quite popular in the world

C. show readers “No pains, no gains”

D. can force people to stop drinking

30. The author writes the passage in order to _______.

A. introduce a practical book

B. praise what Craig Beck did

C. tell us how to stop drinking

D. advise us to stop drinking

B

This story explores the effects of rituals (仪式) on our senses, starting with a ritual that comes just before we cut the cake —singing Happy Birthday to You. We have a question: If you did not sing Happy Birthday to You or blow out the candles, would the cake taste any different?

There?s actually very little research into the effects that rituals have on our lives. Recently Francesca Gino and Kathleen V ohs have just completed the first strict study on the effects that rituals have on eating.

They ran a series of experiments. In one of them, they gave volunteers chocolate bars and asked some of the volunteers to perform a ritual. They told the other volunteers to eat the

chocolate bars exactly as they would like. When people engaged in rituals —very simple rituals —we saw that, in fact, what they tasted was more flavorful, they enjoyed it for longer and they would be willing to pay a higher price for what they just ate.

They ran the same experiment with carrots, and they found the same thing happened. So across the board, rituals seem to increase expectation and make people more mindful of what they are eating.

So the researchers said, “Is it possible that it?s just performing some kind of physical activity before you eat that makes the difference?”They had people perform random physical gestures, and they found that didn?t make any difference. They also found that watching someone else perform a ritual did not have any effect. You had to do it. And it was doing the ritual every single time that gave the ritual its power.

This is fascinating, because, of course, we have rituals in all areas of life. People have morning habits. They have evening habits. There are habits of religion. We could go on and on. In sports, for example, rituals soothe (抚慰) us, and calm us down. After suffering a personal loss, performing a ritual helps you regain a sense of control.

31. The researchers conducted experiments aiming to find ______.

A. why people like rituals

B. what makes rituals special

C. when rituals should be performed

D. what effects rituals have on eating

32. According to the researchers, rituals make people _________.

A. willing to buy anything at any price

B. prefer to choose more flavorful food

C. focus on what they are eating

D. expect to receive more gifts

33. Rituals have power only when ________.

A. they reflect mental activities

B. they include physical gestures

C. people watch rituals carefully

D. people perform rituals themselves

34. It can be inferred from the last paragraph that _______.

A. rituals are sometimes helpful in sports

B. habits of religion are very fascinating

C. rituals can help us form good habits

D. rituals return what we have lost to us

35. The author introduces the theme of the passage by ______.

A. giving an example

B. presenting experiments

C. making suggestions

D. quoting an old saying

C

For professional athletes, it?s all about training, speed, strength and endurance. It?s no different for the homing pigeons —the flying athletes, but they?re not going for the gold with every race. They just want to go home.

When you walk into Mike Beavers? pigeon room, you?ll hear the happy coo from his flock of homing pigeons. Beavers raises and races these birds near Kingsley, Iowa, USA.

“Most people don?t believe me,” says Beavers. “They ask, …How do you do that? Then once I start explaining it, it really catches their interest to some extent and they say, …Wow, that?s pretty awesome.?”

His love for the birds took off when he was a kid and he?s spent the past 30 years building his team of racing pigeons. It?s a family hobby. “I got out of it for a few years and after I got married, my daughter came along and it was something that she and I could do together because I don?t shop,” says Beavers.

Beavers has about 150 birds, but these aren?t ordinary pigeons. They?re born to race and conditioned to travel long distances, and they have the instinct to always return home no matter where they are.

“They come back because this is home,” says Beavers.

“This is where they were born and raised and it?s just their instinct to go home. Nobody even really knows the reason. It?s one of nature?s secrets and nobody has found it yet.”

These pigeons are kind of like flying GPS. That?s what makes them so special. If you find a

wild pigeon under a bridge and take it out 100 miles away, it is just going to find the closest bridge and that?s going to be its new home. It is the instinct that is bred into these birds over centuries and centuries.

36. What do most people think of Beavers? explanation?

A. Boring but acceptable.

B. Interesting and acceptable.

C. Surprising and unacceptable.

D. Understandable but unacceptable.

37. It can be inferred from the passage that Beavers _______.

A. doesn?t go shopping because of her daughter

B. has raised homing pigeons for three decades

C. shares this pigeon-raising hobby with his daughter

D. has never stopped raising homing pigeons since young.

38. According to the passage, Beavers? pigeons ________.

A. can find their way home wherever they are

B. are ordinary but well-trained birds

C. are trained to know how to return home

D. can only travel a very short distance

39. The homing pigeons can fly back home because ________.

A. they are well trained

B. they have the instinct

C. they are equipped with GPS

D. they don?t travel long distances

40. What is the passage mainly about?

A. A man who raises and races homing pigeons and his pigeons.

B. A man and his advice on how to raise and race homing pigeons.

C. The comparison between homing pigeons and other pigeons.

D. The encouragement for people to find the secrets of homing pigeons.

D

A man named Rick finally got to experience what Mother?s Day felt like this year, thanks to 13

little ducks that thought he was their mother and followed him around all day. The unusual story began when the mother of the young chicks disappeared soon after laying the eggs. In order to save them, Rick, who would not tell his last name or location, decided to place them in an incubator. Therefore, when the chicks hatched, the first large moving object they saw was Rick and they immediately concluded that he was their “mother”.

While this may seem odd, it is quite common among animals. Known as imprinting, it is a natural biological phenomenon that occurs in newly born birds and mammals, allowing them to form a bond with their mothers as well as providing them with information about their own identity. For birds like ducks, geese and turkeys that start walking as soon as they hatch, the imprint occurs instantly, which is what happened in this case.

What?s amazing is that researchers have discovered that young birds imprint themselves to the first moving thing they set eyes on, even if it is a lifeless object. During their study they found young chicks attach themselves to gumboots, balls and even an electric train.

The downside of imprinting is that young animals have a hard time separating themselves from their adopted “mothers”. That means that they are often unable to return to the wild or socialize with their own species. This is the reason why researchers use new methods when raising animals in captive breeding programs. At California and Arizona?s Condor Recovery Project, the caretakers use hand puppets shaped like condors (秃鹰) to raise the chicks, while researchers at the Hetaoping Research and Conservation Center in Western China are dressed in panda suits to raise the severely endangered animals.

Rick is planning to keep his young “kids” around for a while. Once they get a little older, he plans to take them over to a neighborhood lake where they will hopefully learn to mingle with their own kind.

41. The underlined word “incubator” in Paragraph 1 is probably a _______.

A. place where ducks can play

B. device to observe duck eggs

C. device to help eggs hatch

D. place where chicks can rest

42. What do we know about imprinting?

A. It only occurs in newly born birds.

B. It is an unusual biological phenomenon.

C. It usually takes a few days for it to occur in ducks.

D. It allows newly born ducks to bond with their mothers.

43. What researchers have discovered shows that ________.

A. birds are much smarter than people used to think they would be

B. birds usually cannot recognize their babies after they are hatched

C. it is easy for young birds to mistake someone else for their mothers

D. it is impossible for a bird to consider a much larger thing to be its mother

44. What do the two examples given in Paragraph 4 show?

A. Young adopted animals have difficulty in leaving their adopted “mothers”.

B. Young adopted animals have difficulty in socializing with their own species.

C. Imprinting allows researchers to use innovative methods to raise animals.

D. Imprinting allows researchers to prevent endangered animals from dying out.

45. What is the main idea of the passage?

A. Some newly born ducks had no idea who their mother was.

B. A man became the mother of some baby ducks on Mother?s Day.

C. Scientists found that animals know nothing about their mothers.

D. Imprinting caused baby ducks to believe that a man was their mother.

第二节信息匹配（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

下面是一些应用文及其应用场合的信息，请阅读下列应用文和相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。

首先请阅读下列有关少年作家的照片及简介：

以下为五位少年作家的生平与成才经历。请将他们与相关的简介匹配起来。

46. She is known to many as “Kiki”, who was born in Toronto, Canada. She began to write books

at the tender age of nine. She enjoys writing, singing, acting and dancing, and plays several musical instruments. The guitar is her favorite, followed by the piano. As an actress, she has landed many roles on television and in short films. Her long-term goal is to become a professional singer.

47. She is ten years old and lives on a farm in South Australia with her parents, younger brother

and lots of animals. She loves flowers, pets, reading, hiking with her friends and family in nature, and going on holiday. She likes cooking and her favorite foods are Italian and Asian.

She also likes to be a fashion writer, a designer, an actress, and a worker on the farm.

48. She lives in Denver, Colorado, the U.S. as a 15-year-old author. Wings of Gold is her first

novel, but she plans on many more in the future. Other than killing her keyboard while writing, Morgan enjoys hot cocoa in the morning and the figure skating whenever there?s time. She plays the piano and the violin well. If you want to find her, start by searching every climbing tree in town, but be sure to look up high.

49. She is a twelve-year-old Australian writer, and has always had a strong passion for writing,

though it was not until the fifth grade that she discovered her writing gift. She is good at planning for her novel, and her book The Lost Dimension, has become a series. She loves reading and art. She has particular interest in drawing dragons and mythical creatures. She wishes to one day start a charity (慈善组织) to help talented children who like art to achieve their goals.

50. She is a twelve-year-old girl who has been writing stories since she was five. She lives in

Whitby, Ontario, Canada and she enjoys reading and writing. Her dream is to be a published author. In the third grade, she won Pen-strokes, a writing contest for children, and her story,

Annie, was published. The first book she ever wrote was called The Butterfly Who Couldn’t Fly.

Recently she has written a book about the growth of a girl.

Ⅲ写作（共两节，满分40分）

第一节基础写作（共1小题，满分15分）

【写作内容】

请根据以下即将举行的大赛信息，为校报英语专栏写一篇短文。

校团委：League Committee 奖金：bonus

【写作要求】

只能用五个句子表达全部内容。

第二节读写任务（共l小题，满分25分）

阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

Sam, one of my neighbors, went to buy a nice-looking watch. Suddenly he saw a watch and loved it so violently that he made up his mind to purchase it. However, the shop owner asked 5,000 yuan. for it. While Sam was hesitating, a young man suddenly rushed into the shop, seized the watch out of the owner?s hand and ran away with it. The whole thing happened in just a few seconds. Then Sam left.

It so happened that he found the very young man at the next corner. He said to Sam in a low voice that he?d like to sell a new gold watch for only 3,000 yuan. Pretending to know nothing about it, Sam paid in no time and left with a light heart.

Sam showed off his new watch, claiming that it was a bargain. But, after examining it carefully, one of his colleagues said that it must be fake and was worth 20 yuan at most. Realizing the shop owner and the young man had planned the trap together, Sam was so embarrassed about being

cheated that he was totally speechless.

【写作内容】

1、以约30词概括上文的主要内容：

2、以约120词就“上当受骗的教训”谈谈你的看法。内容包括：

(1)你如何看待Sam受骗的经历；

(2)简述你或他人受骗的一次经历；

(3)你对避免上当受骗的建议。

【写作要求】

1、作文中可以使用亲身经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用

原文中的句子。

2、作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。

【评分标准】

概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，篇章连贯。

_______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ 参考答案

1-5 ABCCA 6-10 BACBA

11-15 CCBAD

16-25 (One possible version)

16. violently 17. it 18. a

19. knowing 20. for 21. but

22. more 23. who 24. be blessed

25. what

26-30 DBABA 31-35 DCDAA

36-40 BCABA 41-45 CDCCD

46-50 BAFCE

基础写作(One possible version)

There will be a p hotography competition for the New Year?s Day in our school, to enrich our

campus life and improve the students? practical skill. It will be hosted by the League Committee and the Students? Union of our school. And the competition is intended for both the teachers and students, who are interested in photography and required to sign up in the office of the Students? Union before next Saturday afternoon. It?s impor tant to note that all the candidates shall hand in their works by the end of this November. According to the rules, we will select the top ten winners respectively from teachers and students, and award them bonuses and prizes.

读写任务(One possible version)

S am, the author?s neighbor, was cheated into buying a watch at a lower price, which later turned out to be fake. He was extremely embarrassed.

I am very sorry for Sam, but he should answer for his greed and carelessness. What?s worse, it is illegal to buy things from a robber.

Like Sam, I was once taken in. One day, at the station, I was stopped by a beggar who was in rags and said that he was homeless and penniless. So I gave him all the money on me. The beggar thanked me repeatedly and walked away. But I, out of curiosity, followed him quietly. To my great surprise, he entered a five-star hotel for drinking. I was completely cheated!

How not to be cheated in daily life? For one thing, don?t believe strangers easily and think twice before you a ct. For another, always bear in mind that there?s no such thing as a free lunch in the world.