2018年佛山市普通高中高三教学质量检测（二）
英语2018.4
本试卷共9页，满分120分，考试用时120分钟。
注意事项：
1、本试卷分选择题和非选择题两部分。答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考生号、考场号
和座位号填写在答题卡上。用2B铅笔将试卷类型（A）填涂在答题卡相应位置上。将条形码横贴在答题卡右上角“条形码粘贴处”。因笔试不考听力，选择题从第二部分的“阅读理解”开始，试题序号从“21”开始。
2、答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用2B铅笔在答题卡上对应题目选项的答题信息点涂
黑；如需要改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案。答案不能答在试卷上。
3、非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内
相应位置上；如需要改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答无效。
4、考生必须保证答题卡的整洁。考试结束后，将试卷和答题卡一并交回。
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，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
The Five Best Countries To Move To For Retirement Retiring in a different country is gaining popularity. Below are five of the best countries to seek retirement.
Costa Rica
Mild climate, breathtaking landscapes and beaches draw retirees(退休人员) to Costa Rica. The country readily welcomes immigrants and offers a simple residency process. With a monthly income of at least $1,000 per month from Social Security or a similar source, people enjoy a high standard of living at a much lower cost than the U.S.
Malaysia
Retirees who choose to make Malaysia home will appreciate its rich culture and attractive scenery. Moreover, the country offers modern facilities at modest prices. Immigrants enjoy convenience and comfort in their daily life. You will find low-cost rental units, delicious street food, and various shopping malls.
Mexico
Because it’s close to the U.S., Mexico draws more than a million American retirees to its borders. Increasing immigrant communities enjoy seaside living and conversations with friendly, English speaking locals. Plus, legal residents over the age of 60 receive airline, grocery, and restaurant discounts.
Panama
Gentle ocean wind takes the heat out of hot year-round temperatures, which has been the chief attraction to foreign retirees. Beautiful beaches and a booming economy also attract retirees to Panama. An income of $2,000 per month covers modest living costs. Furthermore, the country offers discounts to retirees with a special visa.
Ecuador
Lazy coastal towns, sun-shining hot spots, and nature-filled views wait for immigrants seeking a carefree lifestyle. Public transportation costs in Ecuador make owning a vehicle unnecessary. A bus ride only costs 25 cents and taxi rides will run about $3.
21.What do Costa Rica and Malaysia have in common?
A. Convenient shopping.
B. Relatively low living cost.
C. Various cultural activities.
D. Simple immigration procedures.
22. Which country’s location specially attracts retirees from the U.S.?
A. Malaysia’s.
B. Mexico’s.
C. Panama’s.
D. Ecuador’s.
23. What is the main reason for retirees to choose Panama?
A. Beautiful beaches.
B. A booming economy.
C. A pleasant climate.
D. Discounts for retirees.
B
The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has welcomed home two paintings by the Dutch master, more than 14 years after they were ripped (抢) off the museum’s wall in a nighttime theft. Museum director Axel Rueger called their return “one of the most special days in the history of the museum.”
The paintings were discovered last year by Italian police while they were searching suspected Italian criminals’ farmhouse near Naples for evidence of drug dealing. The two paintings were wrapped in cotton sheets. They were stuffed in a box and hidden behind a wall in a toilet when they were found.
The paintings were considered among the artworks most searched for in the world. After years in darkness, they can now shine again. They are back on display at the museum before being taken to the conservation studio for repair. Fortunately, they suffered remarkably little damage as
thieves who had climbed up a ladder and broken a window to get into the museum in 2004 ripped them out of their frames.
“It is not only a surprise that the works have been recovered but it’s even more surprising that they are in relatively unharmed condition,” Rueger said.
The museum director was on vacation when the call came last year from Italian authorities who believed they had recovered the paintings. He didn’t celebrate right away. He’d had calls like this before.
“I was hopeful but also a little hesitant. Over these years, we had so many occasions when people phoned us, contacted us, claiming that they knew something about the whereabouts (下落)
of disappointment.”But museum experts sent to Italy to check the authenticity (真实性) of the works quickly turned Rueger’s doubts into delight.
Rueger said the paintings are now back permanently at the museum, which is home to dozens of works by Van Gogh. “I’m very confident that everything is safe in the museum from now on,” he said.
24. How were the stolen paintings found?
A. Some drug dealers offered clues.
B. The police knew the hidden place.
C. The police found them by accident.
D. The arrested thieves gave information.
25. What surprised Rueger most about the lost paintings?
A. They were stolen at night.
B. They were found at last.
C. They suffered little damage.
D. The search took 14 years.
26. When Rueger got the call from Italian authorities, he ______.
A. didn’t believe them
B. felt quite relieved
C. planned to celebrate
D. doubted the news
27. What does the underlined part in Paragraph 6 probably mean?
A. Reuger gradually lost interest in the search.
B. The number of false calls was greatly reduced.
C. Rueger felt cold because of too many false calls.
D. The chance to find the paintings became slim.
C
Imagine that you’re the creator and show runner of the newest comedy show on television. Only it isn’t so popular yet, and your live studio audience isn’t giving you the big laughs the show deserves. Do you film the show all over again, hoping that this time the audience will laugh? Or is there another option for making a joke sound funnier than it was received?
Sweeten (改善) the sound by adding a laugh track! “Sweetening,” or the addition of sound effects such as laughs, screams, and other audience-produced noises to the audio track of a TV show, has been used since the 1940s to produce the appearance, or rather the sound, of an engaged and entertained response to a show’s comedy. Laugh tracks came into existence as not only a solution, and sometimes replacement, for an unengaged live audience but also as a way to engage an at-home audience into a more-traditional, public, and theaterlike experience. Adding a laugh track to a television show makes the viewers at home feel much less like they’re sitting on a couch staring at the television screen and much more like they’re in a room full of laughing happy people to varying degrees of success.
Though the art of sweetening has risen and fallen in popularity over the past 60 years, credit for its creation and continued use is owed to laugh-track pioneer and sound engineer Charles Douglass. Douglass was the first to develop, in 1953, a machine for producing “canned laughter”, accessible at the push of a button or pull of a lever (操纵杆). Despite being artificial, sensibly edited laugh tracks are found by television studios to bring about a positive audience response, as their use is usually accompanied by higher ratings and increased audience memory. Though some television audiences may disagree with the value of the laugh track, the cheerful and repetitive sound holds a permanent place in the history and future of television comedy.
28. The author uses the first paragraph to ______.
A. i ntroduce the topic “sweetening”
B. seek solutions for the problem
C. point out a way of making comedies
D. arouse readers’ interest in comedies
29. What effect does a laugh track produce?
A. The creation of a show.
B. Funnier sound in a show.
C. More engaged live audience
D. Communication among TV viewers.
30. What’s the author’s attitude towards the use of the laugh track?
A. Doubtful.
B. Positive.
C. Neutral (中立的).
D. Uncertain.
31. What does the passage mainly talk about?
A. The reason for using laugh tracks.
B. The brief history of laugh tracks.
C. The development of TV comedies.
D. The way to improve television shows.
D
Academic learning is usually in the spotlight at school, but teaching elementary-age students “soft” skills like self-control and how to get along with others might help to keep at-risk kids out of criminal trouble in the future.
Once a program called Fast Track was started in the early 1990s for more than 7,600 children of 55 schools in America. They were identified by their teachers and parents to be at high risk for developing aggressive behavioral problems. The students were randomly divided into two groups; half took part in the intervention, which included a teacher-led curriculum, parent training groups, academic tutoring and lessons in self-control and social skills. The program, which lasted from first grade through 10th grade, reduced delinquency (少年犯罪), arrests and use of health and mental health services as the students aged through adolescence and young adulthood.
In another latest study, by looking at the data from nearly 900 students in previous findings, researchers found that about a third of the influence on future crime outcomes was due to the social and self-regulation skills the students learned from ages 6 to 11.
The academic skills, or hard skills like learning of physics, which were taught as part of Fast Track, turned out to have less of an influence on crime and delinquency rates than did the soft skills, which are associated with emotional (情绪的) intelligence. Soft skills might include teaching kids to work cooperatively in a group or teaching them how to think about the long-term consequences when they make a decision.
Researchers drew the conclusion that these soft skills should be emphasized even more in our education system and in our system of socializing children. Parents should do all they can to promote these skills with their children as should education policymakers. To the extent we can improve those skills, we can improve outcomes in delinquency.
32. Fast Track was intended for children who ______.
A. were randomly chosen from their schools
B. had some problems with academic learning
C. often went against their teachers and parents’ wishes
D. were considered to have criminal trouble in the future
33. What can be learned about “the intervention” in Paragraph 2?
A. It included all the students.
B. It focused on social skills.
C. It improved health services.
D. It had positive outcomes.
34. Compared with soft skills, hard skills ______.
A. almost have no influence on students
B. are more affected by students’ emotion
C. are mainly related to academic learning
D. offer children greater self-control abilities
35. Which is the best title for the passage?
A. Soft Social Skills Matter
B. Fast Track Helps Children
C. How to Prevent Delinquency
D. What to Do for Education
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。
Taking on a part-time job while pursuing a degree is hard work, but there are great benefits from that. Students with part-time jobs can earn their own money, develop good time-management skills, and gain experience in the workplace.
36 As they come into adulthood, earning an income can increase their confidence. Some students need to work through school to afford tuition. 37 Still, the money will be theirs to spend as they wish, and they may appreciate it more because they worked for it.
Students taking on a job on top of their studies will have less free time than non-working students. 38 They learn to skip fun activities to finish their responsibilities. This prepares them for life after school when they can’t find excuses for work that’s not finished in time.
Often, students take jobs that introduce them to their preferred career after school is over. ______39 Even students who work in places not connected to their majors will look more impressive to potential employers. Employers look for employees who understand the work environment and work well as part of a team. 40 That will make it much easier for them to change their roles after leaving school.
A. Others will set the money aside to pay back student loans.
B. Other students may have to get help from their parents.
C. Students having part-time jobs usually get employed easily after graduation.
D. Having a part-time job helps students to get accustomed to the professional world.
E. They tend to be better planners as they make sure they complete every task on deadline.
F. Students who take part-time jobs will have more money than they would have otherwise.
G. This allows them to gain experience in the business and begin meeting people in that field. 第三部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节完形填空（共20 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分30 分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
On June 23, 1970, I had just left the Army after completing my one-year duty in Vietnam. I was on a 41 returning home in Texas. I had been warned about the 42 of our fellow countrymen. There was no 43 welcome for us when we came home from that unpopular war.
I sat, in uniform, in a window seat, 44 eye contact with my fellow passengers. No one was sitting next to me, which added to my 45 . A little girl suddenly appeared in the passage. She 46 and, without saying a word, 47 handed me a magazine. I accepted her 48 , her quiet “welcome home.” All I could say was, “Thank you.” Her small gesture of __49 was the first I had experienced in a long time.
I always believe in the connection between 50 when they reach out to one another.
That girl 51 has no memory of what happened years ago. She might have been told to do that by her mother. It doesn’t matter 52 she gave me the magazine. The 53 thing is that she did.
Since then, I have followed her example and tried, in different ways for different people, to __54 for them. Like me on that plane ride long ago, they will 55 know why a stranger gave a hand. But I absolutely know that my 56 since then are all because of that little girl. Her kindness of offering a magazine to a 57 , scared and lonely soldier has been __58__ throughout my life. I have to believe that my small 59 have the same effect on others. And to that little girl, now a 60 , I would like to say again: thank you.
41. A. bus B. train C. plane D. boat
42. A. stories B. difficulties C. unfriendliness D. enthusiasm
43. A. hometown B. school C. cold D. immediate
44. A. seeking B. noticing C. keeping D. avoiding
45. A. pride B. loneliness C. anger D. excitement
46. A. smiled B. listened C. turned around D. bent down
47. A. naturally B. proudly C. shyly D. worriedly
48. A. offer B. donation C. accompany D. contact
49. A. invitation B. sympathy C. agreement D. inspiration
50. A. soldiers B. strangers C. families D. girls
51. A. similarly B. finally C. immediately D. undoubtedly
52. A. when B. how C. why D. where
53. A. memorable B. satisfactory C. important D. valuable
54. A. do the same B. find a seat C. get things ready D. pass a magazine
55. A. always B. never C. happily D. obviously
56. A. feelings B. ideas C. models D. attempts
57. A. busy B. young C. excited D. tired
58. A. accepted B. spread C. honored D. neglected
59. A. actions B. benefits C. donations D. sacrifices
60. A. stranger B. wife C. mother D. woman
第二节(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。
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。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
），并在其下面写出该加的词。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（
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。
Last week, my friends and me went to watch Jay Chou’s performance in Guangzhou. There are crowds of cheerful fans there, many of who came from other cities. Jay began his performance with one of his most famous song. We all cheered and shouted out his name, but some even cried with joy. When Jay began to sing the seventh song it called Sunny Day, it started to rain. Therefore, the concert was not interrupted and we got even more exciting in the rain. At last, Jay finished the concert with a speech, thank his fans for always supporting him. What memorable experience!
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
假设你是李华，是你校武术俱乐部(Martial Arts Club)的负责人。请你用英文写封邮件给你校的美国交换生Tommy，邀请他加入武术俱乐部。内容包括：
1、加入武术俱乐部的意义；
2、俱乐部的日常活动安排。
注意：
1、词数100左右；
2、可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。