2017届高三年级第二次高考模拟试卷

2017届高三年级第二次高考模拟试卷

注意事项：

1.本卷为衡阳八中高三年级实验班第二次高考模拟试卷，分两卷。其中共72题，满分150分，考试时间为120分钟。

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第I卷 选择题（共100分）

一.听力（每题1.5分，共30分）【已省略】

二.阅读理解（每题2分，共40分）

第一部分 阅读下面的文章，从每题后面所给的四个选项中选出正确的一项。

A

Kathy Fletcher and David Simpson have a son named Santi. He had a friend who sometimes went to school hungry. So Santi invited him to occasionally eat and sleep at his house. That friend had a friend and that friend had a friend, and now when you go to dinner at Kathy and David’s house on Thursday night there might be 15 to 20 teenagers gathering around the table, and later there will be groups of them crashing in the basement or in the few small bedrooms upstairs. The kids who show up at Kathy and David’s have suffered the pains of modern poverty: homelessness, hunger, abuse.

And yet by some miracle, hostile soil has produced beautiful

flowers. Kids come from around the city. Spicy chicken and black rice are served. Cellphones are banned. The kids who call Kathy and David “Momma” and “Dad,” are polite and clear the dishes. Birthdays and graduations are celebrated. Songs are performed. Each meal we go around the table and everybody has to say something nobody else knows about them. Each

meal the kids show their promise to care for one another.

The adults in this community give the kids the chance to present their gifts. “At my first dinner, Edd read a poem that I first thought was from Langston Hughes, but it turned out to be his

own. Kesari has a voice that somehow appeared from New Orleans jazz from the 1920s. Madeline

and Thalya practice friendship as if it were the highest art form.”

“They give us a gift — complete intolerance of social distance. When I first met Edd, I held out my hand to shake his. He looked at it and said, “We hug here,” and we’ve been hugging since.”

Bill Milliken, a veteran youth activist, is often asked which programs turn around kids’ lives. “I still haven’t seen one program change one kid’s life,” he says. “What changes people is relationships. Somebody is willing to walk through the shadow of the valley of adolescence with them.” Souls are not saved in

bundles. Love is the necessary force.

21. Why do kids come to Kathy and David’s house on Thursdays?

A. To help the homeless at first hand. B. To experience the feeling of home.

C. To learn about the modern poverty. D. To plant beautiful flowers in poor soil.

22. Why isn’t the use of cell phones allowed at Thursday dinners?

A. Kids need to tell stories about themselves.

B. Kids are expected to care more for each other.

C. Kids have to do house chores around the home.

D. Kids prepare songs for birthdays and graduations.

23. What gift did the writer get at a Thursday dinner? A. The practice of the art form. B. The pleasure of enjoying jazz.

C. The chance to listen to poems. D. The zero distance between souls.

24. What does Bill mean in his words?

A. Love is the power to change a kid’s life.

B. Money is needed to start programs for kids.

C. A program can change a group of kid’s lives.

D. Kids change their relationships in a program.

B

In many countries, schools have long summer holidays, with

shorter holidays in between. However, a new report suggests

shortening school holidays to stop children forgetting what they have learnt during the long summer break. Instead of three

school terms, it says, there should be five eight-week terms. And there should be just four weeks off in the summer, with a two-week break between the other terms.

Sonia Montero has two children at primary school and works full-time. She supports the idea. “The kids,” she says, “have much longer holidays than me and I can’t afford to take several weeks off work, so I need someone to take care of them. But nobody wants the work in the summer months — they all have holidays of their own.”

Not surprisingly, some young people disagree. Student Jason Panos says “It’s a stupid idea. I would hate staying at school in the summer. It’s unfair, too. The people who suggest this

had long school holidays when they were young, but now they want to stop us enjoying the summer. The kids in Spain and

America have much longer holidays than here, but they don’t forget everything they’ve learnt in a few months.”

Nadia Salib agrees. “Sure,” she says, “the first week at school after the summer is never easy, but you soon get back into

it. The real problem round here is that kids get bored after so

many weeks out of school, and then some of them start causing trouble. But the answer is to give them something to do, not make everyone stay in school longer.”