【市级联考】广东省珠海市2019届高三第二学期二模英语试题学校:___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________一、阅读选择This week, we’re sharing our favorite recent reads. To help round out our recommendations, we also tapped some folks who you’ve heard on Code Switch before—novelists, scholars, poets and podcasters.All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung“The book is an extraordinary, honest and sympathetic look at adoption, race in America and families in general. It’s also such an engaging read. I stayed up way too late o ne night reading it because the story just pulled me in. And I’ve recommended many of my friends to read it so I can talk about it with them.” — Jasmine Guillory, author of The Wedding Date, The Proposal and the forthcoming book The Wedding Part.Becoming by Michelle Obama“It’s a deeply-moving coming of age story of Michelle Obama in her early life. There are such moving anecdotes about how this family just invested everything in the possibility of giving their children a better life. It’s not a sweet book, but at the same time, it’s deeply hopeful about the possibility of what happens when you work hard, what happens when you love hard.” — Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage, Silver Sparrow and other books.Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s A nger by Soraya Chemaly“What really impressed me about this book is this idea that women should be allowed to express their anger, particularly in Latin American families and communities. I just think Soraya goes into this incredible detail citing scientific studies and different works of literature that really convey the necessity to female anger, not only for the health of women, but for the health of equality in society.” — Jean Guerrero, reporter with KPBS and author of Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir.1．Who wrote The Wedding Date?A．Tayari Jones B．Jean GuerreroC．Jasmine Guillory D．Soraya Chemaly2．Which book tells a bitter story with hope?A．Becoming B．All You Can Ever KnowC．Silver Sparrow D．Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir 3．What’s the purpose of the passage?A．To sell books. B．To comment on books.C．To share reviews of books. D．To collect opinions of books.Our hero’s origin story started this past February in the Perine family living room in Birmingham, Alabama. Austin, a 4-year-old boy, and his father, Tad Perine, were watching a program on Animal Planet about a mother panda leaving her cubs. “I told him that the cubs would be homeless for a while,” Tad says. “Austin didn’t know what homelessness meant, but he was sad and wanted to know more.”Seeing this as a teachable moment, Tad took Austin to the Firehouse Ministries, a local shelter that provides housing, food, and other services for homeless men. As they drove by the redbrick building, they saw a group of 25 homeless men standing on the street corn er. “Dad, they look sad.” Austin said. “Can we take them some food and make them smile?” That day, Austin used his allowance to buy each man a Burger King sandwich and handed the food out himself. Seeing what their presence meant to the men at the ministry, Austin and Tad returned the next week.After he returned every week for five weeks, word of Austin’s acts of kindness spread through social media and national news outlets. Burger King jumped aboard, agreeing to donate $1,000 a month for an entire year toward the cause. Soon, churches and shelters across the country began inviting Austin to come to distribute food in other areas. Whereas before Austin and Tad could feed 25 to 50 people at a time; now, thanks to corporate and community support, they can feed 800 to 2,000 people at once.As for Austin, he continues to give out food, smiles, and his inspirational message of love. “It makes me feel like I’m saving the day.”4．How does Austin feel when seeing the TV program?A．Surprised B．JoyfulC．Grateful D．Unhappy5．Why did Tad drive Austin to the local shelter?A．To donate some money for the homeless.B．To ask for some help from the homeless.C．To teach him the meaning of homelessness.D．To introduce Austin to the staff there.6．What does the author intend to do in Paragraph 3?A．To confirm Austin’s influence.B．To praise Burger King’s donation.C．To thank the community’s supportD．To convey appreciation of the homeless.7．What can be a suitable title for the text?A．A Teachable MomentB．A Boy Fighting Against HungerC．A Kind Family Helping the PoorD．Tad’s Inspirational Message of LoveThe tons of plastic we’re dumping in the oceans is finding a new home—the stomachs of our beautiful marine animals. Yet another reminder of this fact washed ashore in Eastern Indonesia this week. A large amount of waste, including drinking cups and flip-flops, was found in the stomach of a whale that died off the coast near Kapota Island.The 9.5-metre sperm whale (抹香鲸) was found by rescuers from the Wakatobi National Park. The whale had swallowed 5.9 kilograms of plastic waste containing 115 plastic cups, four plastic bottles, 25 plastic bags, and more than 1,000 other kinds of pieces of plastic, park chief Heri Santoso told the reporter.“Although we have not been able to deduce the cause of death, the facts that we see are truly awful,” said Dwi Suprapti, a marine species conservation co-ordinator at WWF Indonesia. She said it was not possible to determine if the plastic had caused the w hale’s death because of the animal’s advanced state of decay (腐烂). But this is only the latest.Four Asian nations—Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand—account for 50% of the plastic waste in the oceans, according to a report by environmental campaigner Ocean Conservancy and the McKinsey Center for Business and Environment. The Philippines is second to Indonesia when it comes to putting away plastic waste in the oceans, according to a study published in the journal Science in January. Of the 3.2 million mismanaged waste it produces every year, 1.29 million ends up in the ocean.A report released earlier this year stated that the amount of plastic in the ocean is likely to increase.8．What can we know about the sperm whale?A．Its stomach is the home of plastic waste.B．It died of swallowing lots of plastic waste.C．It was the first whale to eat plastic waste.D．It had eaten much plastic waste before its death.9．Which can best replace the underlined word “deduce” in paragraph 3?A．confirm B．causeC．approve D．contain10．Which country dumps the most plastic waste into the oceans?A．Thailand B．IndonesiaC．Vietnam D．Philippines11．What’s the main idea of the passage?A．Philippines puts away 1.29 million tons of plastic.B．A sperm whale was found dead near Kapota Island.C．Much dumped plastic waste was found in a dead whale.D．We should take measures to reduce the waste in whales.It hurts to keep secrets. Secrecy (保密) is associated with lower well-being, worse health, and less satisfying relationships. Research has linked secrecy to increased anxiety, depression, symptoms of poor health, and even the more rapid progression of disease. There is a seemingly obvious explanation for these harms: hiding secrets is hard work. You have to watch what you say.New research, however, suggests that the harm of secrets doesn’t really come from the hiding after all. The real problem with keeping a secret is not that you have to hide it, but that you have to live with it, and think about it.To better understand the harms of secrecy, researchers first set out to understand what secrets people keep, and how often they keep them. They found that 97% of people have at least one secret at any given moment, and people have, on average, 13 secrets.Across several studies, researchers asked participants to estimate how frequently they hid their secret during conversations with others, and also how frequently they thought about the secret outside of social interactions. They found that the more frequently people simply thought about their secrets, the lower their well-being.Following up this research, a new paper reveals why thinking about secrets is so harmful. Turning the question around, the consequences of telling secrets are examined. Researchers found that when a person reveals a secret to a third party, it does not reduce how often they have to hide the secret from others who are still kept in the dark. Rather, it reduces how often their mind wanders toward the secret in irrelevant moments.Therefore, if you choose to still keep something secret, talking to another person can make the world of difference. Secrets don’t have to hurt as much as they do.12．Which is not one of the harms of keeping secrets?A．Being physically sick. B．Mental problems.C．Harmed relationships. D．Hiding somewhere.13．Why is keeping secrets so harmful?A．Because you must hide them.B．Because you often think about them.C．Because it’s difficult to keep secrets.D．Because you must watch what to say.14．How can people reduce the harm of keeping secrets?A．By working hard. B．By keeping 13 secrets.C．By thinking about the secrets. D．By telling secrets to a third person. 15．Which is the text probably taken from?A．An advertisement B．A research reportC．A biology textbook. D．A travel brochure.二、七选五This Is Why Traffic Lights Are Red, Yellow, and GreenEver wondered why blue doesn’t mean go and brown mean stop?16．.The idea that red means stop and green means go has impacted our lives in more ways than just traffic signals. We have been taught from a young age that the color red means danger.17．. But why were those particular colors chosen for traffic lights in the first place? For something we have to look at every day, why couldn’t they have been prettier colors like magenta(紫红) and turquoise (天蓝色)?It’s important to know that before there were traffic lights for cars, there were traffic signals for trains. At first, railroad companies used red to mean stop, white to mean go, andgreen to mean caution. As you could imagine, train conductors ran into a few problems with the color white meaning go— 18．, with train conductors thinking they were all clear when they really weren’t. Railway companies eventually moved to the color green meaning go, and it’s been that way ever since.As far as red goes, that’s always been a color that indicated danger, long before cars were even around. Red is the color with the longest wavelength. 19．. The color yellow was used to caution drivers because it has a slightly shorter wavelength than red, but not as short as green.20．. Employ these driving rules first and know that traffic lights have certainly come a long way.A．And the color green means it’s OK to move forwardB．Turns out, there’s a perfectly good explanation for itC．It can be seen from a greater distance than other colorsD．bright white could easily be seen from a distance by usE.bright white could easily be mistaken for stars at nightF.Why don’t we use blue to mean go and brown mean stopG.So don’t get mad next time you’re impatiently waiting at a traffic light三、完形填空A butcher was really surprised when he saw a dog coming inside the shop. He went over to the dog and noticed it had a 21 in its mouth. He took the note, which 22 “Can I have twelve sausages and a leg of lamb, please. The dog has 23 in his mouth.”24 , there was really a ten-dollar note there. So he took the money and put the sausages and lamb in a bag, placing it in the dog’s mouth. The butcher was so 25 . He decided to follow the dog.He followed the dog to a bus stop. The dog stopped and started looking at the 26 . The dog checked out the time, and then sat on one of the benches 27 . Along came a bus. The dog went around to the front, looked at the number and 28 . The butcher, by now, 29 , followed it onto the bus.The bus traveled through the town and out into the suburb. 30 it got off with the 31 still in its mouth. Several minutes later, the dog turned into a house. It walked up the path, and dropped the bag on the 32 . Then it walked back down the path, quickly33 for the door, and 34 itself against the door. But there’s no answer at the house,so the dog had to wait at the door.After a while, there finally was a 35 to the situation. A big guy opened the door, and started kicking the dog and 36 him. The butcher ran up, and said “Why do you shout at the dog? It is really a 37 .” The guy responded, “You call this clever? This is the second time this week that this 38 dog’s forgotten its 39 .” On the way back home, the butcher thought to himself, “Greed may 40 have limits for the dog owner.”21．A．tip B．note C．parcel D．list 22．A．knew B．wrote C．read D．felt 23．A．money B．coins C．bones D．gold 24．A．Unexpectedly B．Undoubtedly C．Disappointingly D．Surprisingly 25．A．curious B．dangerous C．ashamed D．frightened 26．A．number B．timetable C．post D．bus 27．A．patiently B．anxiously C．restlessly D．painfully 28．A．flew off B．got off C．came on D．climbed on 29．A．open-minded B．open-ended C．open-mouthed D．open-hearted 30．A．Finally B．Firstly C．Secondly D．Thirdly 31．A．sausage B．bone C．ticket D．bag 32．A．balcony B．step C．ceiling D．wall 33．A．paid B．applied C．dashed D．asked 34．A．enjoyed B．amused C．taught D．threw 35．A．starting point B．turning point C．bottom line D．front line 36．A．comforting B．praising C．scolding D．admiring 37．A．servant B．genius C．master D．butcher 38．A．stupid B．clever C．unforgettable D．thoughtful 39．A．mission B．aim C．key D．route 40．A．still B．even C．ever D．never四、用单词的适当形式完成短文阅读下面材料，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。
