湖北省2019年高考英语模拟信息卷及答案(三)

1 湖北省2019年高考英语模拟信息卷及答案

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注意事项：

1. 本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分；满分150分，考试时间120分钟。

2. 考生作答时，将答案写在答题卡上，在本试题卷上做答无效．．．．．．．．．．。考试结束后，将本试题卷和答题卡一并交回。

第I卷

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

English

World language

Once people dreamed of a language that everybody in the world could understand. Now, for the first

time in human history, perhaps there is one—English. It is the official language in more than 50 countries

and 250－300 million speak it as a second language. Some say that half the world will be speaking it in the

year 2050.

Difficult to master?

English is not the easiest language to learn—most of its common verbs are irregular and it has a large

vocabulary—at least 200，000 words are in common use. Its pronunciation and written form are also very

different.

User－friendly

But some things make it easy—nouns don't have gender and verbs are less complicated than other

languages. There is only one form to speak to someone directly—‘you’. Adjectives don't agree with nouns,

and many nouns are often also verbs. 2 English is everywhere

Some other languages may have more speakers, like Spanish or Mandarin. But English is used in

many different areas. It is the language of transport: most airline pilots and air－traffic controllers use it. At

sea a simple form of English is the international language of communication.

English for progress

It is also the first language of science, technology and education—an estimated 80 per cent of the

information stored on the internet is in English and 90 per cent of schoolchildren in European countries

study it as their first foreign language.

New words

Around 25，000 new words and expressions enter the English language every year. Do you know what

a helicopterparent is？—a mother or father too involved in the life of their child. And what about a

boomerangchild？—a young adult who returns to live with their parents for financial reasons.

The future of English

What is the future of English as a global language? Will another language ever replace it? Many think

not—it is already too popular.

21. According to the text, how many people speak English as a second language?

A. Around 25，000 million. B. 250－300 million.

C. At least 200，000 million. D. 90 million.

22. According to the text, why could English be used as a global language?

A. It has more speakers, compared with other languages.

B. Adjectives agree with nouns.

C. It is the first language of science, technology and education.

D. It is the easiest language to learn.

23. Which of the following words best describes the writer's attitude?

A. Objective. B. Subjective. C. Indifferent. D. Critical.

B

I am astonished at the way God knows when to send a special gift of encouragement at just the right

time! It might be in a dream, a lost letter, a memory, or something found that we’d forgotten about.

My grandmother was from a town in Michigan. And summer after summer I enjoyed staying with my

grandparents as a young child. I was from the city and loved the small town where they lived. People knew 3 everyone, their children, their pets, their ancestors.

Grandma was always using her hands for something exciting... she would make sandwiches and we’d

have tea parties, plant flowers and carefully tend them. She loved knitting sweaters as well as making

beautiful quilts for her grandchildren. I remember the small thimble (顶针) she would place on her finger

while doing her needlework.

A few years ago, when Grandma left this earth for her new residence in Heaven, I bid farewell to my

loving grandmother. How quickly our lives can change! We had just had tea together a couple of months

earlier, on her 91st birthday. I missed her very much, but I noticed it mostly on my birthdays, because there

was no card from Grandma. She’d never forgotten my birthday!

On one particular birthday when I was feeling a little low, something happened made me feel as if she

was sharing that special day with me. I was arranging some colorful pillows that she had made, and

suddenly I felt something inside one pillow; it was small and hard. I moved the object to a seam（缝）that I

carefully opened, and, to my delight, out came a tiny silver thimble!

How happy I was to find something that had been a part of her! Not realizing it had fallen off her

finger, I pictured her sewing it into that little pillow that I just happened to fluff（抖松）, to place on my

bedspread（床罩）that day. I carefully laid the thimble alongside the others I’d collected over the years.

What a precious memory of a very special lady who, somehow, I knew, was laughing in delight at sewing