2019年陕西省高考英语模拟试题
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（考试时间120分钟，试卷满分150分）
注意事项：
1. 答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。
2. 作答时，务必将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷及草稿纸上无效。
3. 考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）略
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A B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
It ' s time for our annual 100+word ——story Con test aga in. Howdo we pick out the winn ers? Read our final choices last year below. After reading these. head over to Facebook and submit your own story to Reader ' s Digest.
1. WINNER: $1000 Lynne Momple South Africa
Mavis took one end and I the other and together we carefully moved the old bed through the bedroom door and the open balcony doors . We lifted it over the balustrade（扶手）into the hands of family members waiting below. Carrying it under the low Albizia branches, then past the loses, they gen tly put it dow n in the middle of the freshly mown law n.
Cha ntelle carried out the cott on sheets , the embroidered pillows, and fin ally the
multi-coloured bla nket her great-gra ndmother had kni tted for me.
Toni ght. on her 90th birthday. my mother wants to sleep out un der the stars.
WHAT THE JUDGES SAID:
“ We thought this story had a strong visual impact t hanks to the rich select ion of words. It is a deserv ing winner. ”
2. RUNNER-UP: $250 Ritu Hem nani Ho ng Kong
Cope and Meera played together every day. ” Race you to the garden !” Meera won. “I ' m one
step ahead!'
Cope chased Meera around the trees. Then she wept “We re moving away.” Cope' s heart broke. I will write to you. ”
For years they remembered. The n life pulled them apart. Yet n either one forgot.
“ It ' s time for you to marry. ” Cope' s father said one day. “ I have chosen a girt. ”
“ I hope she ' s sweet，” Cope prayed.
Later , he lifted her veil（面纱）.“Meera, it ' s you! ”'I guess I ' m still one step ahead!”
Meera smiled.
WHAT THE JUDGES SAID:
“This entry tells a complete story. It conveys a rich tenderness and intimacy that
has a last ing
impact on the reader. ”
21. What is the purpose of the passage?
A. To display some funny stories.
B. To en courage readers to con tribute. '
C. To advertise two awarded stories.
D. To promote a story-telli ng con test
22. In the opinion of the judges, the first story has a strong visual impact because of __________________ .
A. variety in word
B. creativity in style
C. humour in Ian guage
D. flexibility in expressi on
23. What is the seco nd story about?
A. It is a funny joke.
B. It is a fairy tale.
C. It is a classic comedy.
D. It is a roma ntic story.
B
The deadliest mass shoot ing committed by an in dividual in the us left 58 people dead
and hundreds wounded at a country music festival in Las Vegas on October 1 . Smith was at the fe stival to celebrate his brother ' s 43 rd birthday . Whe n the gun shots started , Smith initially thought they were fireworks . Soon he got separated from his family . As he turned
