浙江地区2018-2019学年高三英语下学期冲刺模拟卷（一）考试时间：120分钟；满分：150分注意事项：1．答题前填写好自己的姓名、班级、考号等信息2．请将答案正确填写在答题卡上第I卷（选择题）第一部分听力（共两节，满分20分）略第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分35分）第一节（共10小题；每小题2.5分，满分25分）AAs a young man, Al was a skilled artist, a potter with a wife and two fine sons. One night, his older son developed a severe stomachache. Thinking it was only some common intestinal disorder, neither Al nor his wife took the condition very seriously . But the boy died suddenly that night.Knowing the death could have been avoided if he had only realized the serious ness of the situation, he always felt he was guilty. To make matters worse, hi s wife left him a short time later, leaving him alone with his six-year-old yo unger son. The hurt and pain of the two situations were more than Al could st and, and he turned to alcohol for help. In time Al became an alcoholic. As the alcoholism progressed, AL began to lose everything he possessed---his land, h ouse, etc. Finally Al died alone in a small bar. Hearing of Al’s death, I th ought, “What a totally wasted life! What a complete failure! ”As time went by , I began to re-value my earlier rough judgement . I knew Al’s now adult s on, Ernie. He is one of the kindest, most caring , most loving men I have ev er known. I saw the love between Ernie and his children, thinking that kindness and caring had to come from somewhere . I hadn’t heard Ernie talked much ab out his father. One day, I worked up my courage to ask him what on earth his father had done so that he became such a special person. Ernie said quietly,“As a child until I left home at 18, Al came into my room every night, ga ve me a kiss and said, “love you, son.””Tears came to my eyes as I rea lized what I had been a fool to judge Al as a failure. He had not left any material possessions behind. But he had been a kind loving father, and left b ehind his best love.21. From the author’s point of view, ______________.A. Al’s most precious possessions to his son was his love.B. Al took no responsibility for the death of his younger son..C. Al was a complete failure both as a husband and a father.D. Al’s addiction to alcohol was resulted from the leaving of his wife.22. What did the writer learn from the experience?A. No research, no fact.B. Facts speak louder than words.C. Experience is the best teacher.D. Don’t judge people by their appearances.23. What might be the author’s purpose in writing the text ?A.To show us a considerate father.B.To show us that love can make a difference.C. To show us an awful experience.D. To show us that love can wake a father up.BAfter the surgery, Sun suffered intense pain, but insisted that he didn‟t need a ny medication. One evening,he found Law, his wife, crying on the balcony of their apartment in a rare ou tburst of frustration. “If youwon‟t help yourself, no one else can,”she said.Sun started a list “How to Help Myself”,and on it he wrote, “Keep communic ating with the doctors,even if they are darker thoughts.”On Oct. 20 th , a few days before his 33 birthday, Sun wrote in a Facebookpost, “It‟s been hard to get along with having aggressive and incurable Grade 4 brain cancer; it‟s been hardnot to get angry and sad about it; it‟s been frustrating that every pathology（病理）test after my surgerycame back with the worst possible result; and it‟s been hard to accept that mod ern medicine isn‟t able to fixme.”At the same time, he wrote, “Every day I wake up not-dead is a gift.”Sun and Law had other lists, detailing the things that they hoped to accomplish in life, which included atrip to Wimbledon; climbing Mt. Snowdon in Wales; and a range of musical aspira tions（愿望）----fromlearning the Bach sonatas（奏鸣曲）and partitas（变奏曲）to performing the first violin part in a concert.Sun started working on Bach‟s six sonatas and partitas for unaccompanied violin, the most difficult parts, which George Enescu, a world-famous violinist, once des cribed as the Himalayasfor violinists. Sun practiced every day, even if he could manage only fifteen m inutes between medicaltreatments. As he mastered each piece, he posted his performances on Facebook. He finished on November12 th , then turned to the even more difficult Paganini caprices（随想曲）, which he had often listened to in arecording by Itzhak Perlman. “It‟s something I always wanted to play when I gre w up, like wanting to begreat baseball player,”he said.24. Law cried on the balcony because__________.A. she suffered great pain from the Grade 4 brain cancerB. Sun refused to get medical treatment after the surgeryC. nobody else wanted to help them out of the situationD. no money was left to pay for Sun‟s the medical treatment25. Which of the following can best describe Sun‟s feeling when he wrote “Everyday I wake up not-dead isa gift.”?A. gratefulB. sadC. frustratedD. determined26. The couple‟s list of things they hoped to accomplish in life included ______ ____.A. playing tennis in WimbledonB. cycling in Mt. Snowdon in WalesC. learning Mozart‟s sonatas and partitasD. playing the first violin part in aconcert27. In the last paragraph, Bach‟s six sonatas and partitas is compared to the H imalayas for violinist to stress__________.A. its popularity among peopleB. its value for learnersC. its difficulty when being learnedD. its importance in violists‟eyesCMum always awoke early. When she was working as an actress she thought: Sooner or later they will realize their mistake and will send me home. To get ridof that fear, she would get up before “they”did,to go over her lines. In o rder to look perfect on the set, fresh,without a single negative thought that m ight ruffle her smile, she had to arise between four and five in the morning and gather her strength.Mum, like any wise family doctor, believed in the virtues of a good breakfast.She never skipped it. She knew how to be persuasive and from the time I wasa little boy she would cut slices of buttered bread-she called them “fingers ”-for dipping in soft-boiled eggs. However, what left an impression about herb reakfast went beyond those toasted rectangles of bread.During the last years of her life, this morning interlude was also a time for confidences. If my brother and I were at her Swiss home, breakfast would be in the kitchen's office. She would come downstairs in her robe, and while havin g a cake and a cup of coffee, almost unconsciously, small talk would turn intoa confession (忏悔).One day she uneasily told me about the painful circumstances of her separati on from my father. I learned to know her better at the breakfast table.But it was not always a time for discussion. Returning from a trip, or on a Sunday,she would honor the day of rest with a small luxury, something unusual f or her:breakfast in bed. It was like a prize she awarded herself, and it was enjoyed all the more if the tray were filled with tidbits, such as homemade ca ke or cherry jam, along with toast, coffee, milk, butter, a small from the gar den in a tiny vase, and on the side of her tray the International Herald Trib une .28. In what sense did the mother's breakfast go beyond those toasted rectanglesof bread?A. Many more delicious foods were prepared by her mother.B. It removed the misunderstanding between the mother and the sonC. It led the author to have a deeper understanding of her mother.D. It helped the author's mother solve her marriage problems.29. The underlined word “luxury”in the last paragraph most likely refers toA. the feeling of self-respectB. the enjoyment of something specialC.the desire of expressing your thanksD. the pleasure of having something expensive30. What is the author's purpose in writing the text?A. To present the benefits of eating breakfast.B. To introduce how to prepare breakfast.C.To show his sympathy for his mother's marriage.第二节: (共5个小题; 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。
