2015年高考仿真模拟试卷新课标卷II(一)英语

2015年高考仿真模拟试卷·新课标卷II（一）

英语

本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。考试结束后，将本试卷和答案卡一并交回。

注意事项：

1.答第I卷前考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。

2.选出每小题答案前，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号框，不能答在本试卷上，否则无效。

第一部分听力

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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40分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

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（2015年广州一模英语试卷）At the start of the 20th century, a new city was beginning to grow on some flat land near the sea in southern California; its name was Los Angeles. At the same time, a new industry was just being born: the cinema.

America’s movie industry began life in New York; but by 1910, movie-makers were moving to Los Angeles. In New York, everything was too expensive: workers, land, taxes. Moreover, it was difficult to make movies in winter, because it was too cold.

The Los Angeles region, on the other hand, was full of advantages. In California, they could make films all through the year; and everything was cheaper. In particular, there was lots of land for sale, especially in the Los Angeles suburb called Hollywood.

Mo vies quickly became very popular, and this popularity exploded after “talkies” first appeared in 1925. Nevertheless, movies were expensive to produce, and film companies needed money-lots of it. For this reason, Hollywood rapidly became controlled by a small number of big companies such

as MGM, 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros. and Paramount.

Since then, the big companies’ fortunes have ebbed and flowed, but most of them are still there. Some old names have disappeared, but some new ones have appeared, companies like Walt Disney and Steven Spielberg’s company Amblin. Today the biggest studios belong to huge international firms. For instance, News Corporation, which now owns Fox, also owns newspapers on three continents, and TV networks in America, Europe and Asia.

It is only huge companies like Fox that can afford to make today’s very expensive films; and for Titanic-at the time the most expensive film ever mad-Fox had to get help from another big company, Paramount!

Once Hollywood mad films just for America; to day it makes them for the world. It’s the center of a global dream-machine. Perhaps we dreamed differently in the past. Today, thanks in part to Hollywood, people everywhere have similar dreams.

We now live in the age of global culture. Hollywood did not invent this culture-but for better or for worse, it has become one of the most powerful elements in it. Like it or not, we all now live on planet Hollywood.

21. What attracted the film industry to Los Angeles?

A. Cheaper costs and pleasant weather.

B. More talented actors and mild climate.

C. More skilled workers and plentiful land.

D. Large movie companies and lower wages.

22. Which of the following is true about the Hollywood movie companies?

A. They sometimes work together to produce movies.

B. They produce expensive movies far less often than in the past.

C. The same companies have controlled the industry for almost 100 years.

D. There are many large companies competing against each other for success.

23. What does the writer think about the international influence of Hollywood?

A. It has encouraged people to dream like Americans.

B. It has made foreigners love American people more.

C. It has become a driving force in shaping global culture.

D. It has damaged the local film industry in other countries.

B

（2015?甘肃省部分普通高中高三2月第一次联考）

The World Bank has looked at the distinguishing features of successful school system. According to the World Bank’s education specialist, Harry Patrinos, this include: improving the quality of teachers and making sure that teachers are highly regarded; providing information to make schools accountable and giving autonomy to schools and head teachers.

This matters not only for individual pupils but also for the well-being of countries, he says, because improving educational performance has a direct impact on improving economic performance.

China’s education performance— at least in cities such as Shanghai and Hong Kong— seems to be as spectacular as the country’s fast growing economy.

Certainly both these open and outward-looking cities consider education to be important and are willing to adopt the best educational practices from around the world to ensure success. In Hong Kong, education accounts for more than one-fifth of entire government spending every year. “Shanghai and Hong Kong are small education systems, with a concentration of ideas, manpower and resources for education,” says Prof Cheng.

Under the banner “First class city, first class education”, Shanghai set about systematically re-equipping classroom, upgrading schools and improving the curriculum in the last decade.

It got rid of the “key schools” system which concentrated resources only on top students and top schools. Instead staff were trained in more interactive teaching methods and computers were brought in.

About 80% of Shanghai school leavers go to university compared to an overall average of 24% in China.

Meanwhile, dynamic Hong Kong was forced into educational improvements as its industries moved to cheaper mainland Chinese areas in the 1990s.Its survival as a service and management hub depends on upgrading knowledge and skills.

In the last decade Hong Kong has concentrated on closing the gap for all students, says a report by McKinsey management consultants.

The report, How the World’s Most Improved School Syst ems Keep Getting Better, rated Hong

Kong’s education system among the best in the world.

24. The World Bank’s survey about education mainly concentrates on .

A. what has made some education systems successful

B. China’s education system and c ompetitive exams

C. how to relieve Chinese students of their heavy schoolwork

D. the relationship between education and economic development

25. According to Harry Patrinos, the key to successful school systems is .

A. to give autonomy to all teachers to educate students freely in class

B. to let students attend after-school tutoring and do more exercises

C. to improve teachers’ abilities and give schools free performance right

D. to make school education directly serve the economy of the country

26. We can learn from the text that .

A. the “key school” system is the key to many schools’ failure

B. students in Shanghai and Hong Kong work the hardest

C. Hong Kong’s educational performance isn’t as good as Shanghai’s

D. S hanghai and Hong Kong’s economic performance will improve

27. What is the author’s attitude towards the school systems of Shanghai and Hong Kong?

A. Negative.

B. Positive.

C. Neutral.

D. Critical.

C

（2015?四川省成都七中高三一诊模拟）They will be here in a minute, surely. I’ll just stare at my shoes a little while longer to pass the time. Wish I’d brought a book. Hang on, though, what if I’ve got the wrong day? The wrong place? Have the clocks gone back? No, damn it, I’m off home. Whoever I’m waiting for clearly lives in a different time zone from me.

I am always 10 minutes early, so if you’re 10 minutes late, I’ve been foot-tapping for 20 minutes. I know it’s not fair to hold the first 10 against you, but I just can’t help myself. I never wait more than 20 minutes beyond the meeting time we decided upon, not for anyone, ever.

OK, that’s not strictly true. I have, on occasion, hung around anxiously and heartbrokenly for up to an hour, but the bitter anger that follo ws is never a pretty sight. If you’ve made me wait that long, you will wish you hadn’t bothered turning up at all.