中山市2016年普通高考模拟考试
英语试题（五）
本试卷共10页，三部分，满分120分。考试用时120分钟。
注意事项：
1．答卷前，考生务必用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的姓名和考生号、试室号、座位号填写在答题卡的卷头上。
2．选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑，如需改动用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案，答案不能答在试卷上。
3．非选择题必须用黑色字迹钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内相应位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。
4．考生必须保持答题卡的整洁，考试结束后，将答题卡交回。
第一部分阅读理解(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
George Washington was born in 1732 in Virginia. His father died when George was 11 years old. As a boy, he learned reading, writing and math. Then he worked as a land surveyor in western Virginia.
In his twenties, he became a British Army officer. George Washington fought in the French and Indian War.
Mr. Ellis points out that Washington did not have a formal or college education like many other early U.S. leaders, including John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.
"But in some sense, Adams goes to Harvard, and Jefferson goes to William and Mary and Washington goes to war."
Mr. Ellis says the first president was "a realist." At the same time, he was a "very passionate man" with "extremely strong emotions." He was known to get angry, but he only showed his temper to a few people.
Washington not only acted like a great leader –he looked like one. George Washington
stood about 1.9 meters tall. He was a head taller than the average man of his time.
He was very strong, and very graceful. He was known as one of the best horseback riders and best dancers in Virginia.
But he had a problem: bad teeth. Unlike his wife, Martha, who was known for her lovely smile, George Washington began losing his teeth in his twenties. When he was sworn in as president, he had only one tooth left.
Dentists made him sets of dentures from uncomfortable metal and springs. Some of the teeth were from hippopotamus ivory. Mr. Ellis says Washington even paid some of his slaves for their teeth.
"About six of the teeth in his mouth in his latter years, when he is president, are actually from slaves at Mount Vernon."
1. When George Washington was young, he _________ .
A. was a hard-working college student like the other American presidents
B. worked as a farmer
C. joined the army
D. liked literature very much
2. One problem bothered George Washington was his _________.
A. height
B. teeth
C. wife
D. bad temper
3. Which of the following statements is not true according to the passage?
A. George Washington was good at dancing.
B. George Washington was a good horseback rider.
C. George Washington was very sick when be became president.
D. George Washington got some teeth from slaves.
4. We can infer from the passage that Washington _________.
A. was a very lucky man
B. was a handsome man
C. had a happy marriage
D. showed great leadership
B
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