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揭阳市高三第二次高考模拟英语试卷(2)
东北三省四市高三第三次模拟英语试卷
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
The Disney theme park, its first on the Chinese mainland and
the second in Greater China, after Hong Kong Disneyland, will
open in Shanghai on June 16, a Thursday. Tickets on sale will
begin on March 28, 2016.
A standard single day ticket for the Shanghai Disney Resort
costs 370 yuan ($56.2), while a peak-day ticket for festival and
holiday periods will be sold for 499 yuan, the resort announced
on February 3rd.
Children between 1 and 1.4 meters tall and seniors aged over
65 years old can enjoy a 25% discount on the ticket price. A two-
day ticket will be available at a 5 percent discount.
Tickets can be booked on the official websiteor through the
hotline 400-180-0000.
In comparison with the other five Disney parks around the
world, a one-day ticket for the Hong Kong Disney costs 539 Hong
Kong dollars ($69.2) for adults aged 16 to 64 years old, while that
for the theme park in Tokyo is being sold at 6,900 yen ($58).
Disney says the park will also reflect Chinese culture. The
combination of Disney and Chinese cultures will be seen in many
classic Chinese designs, such as a teahouse?Wandering Moon.
Celebrations of seasonal festivals and stage shows will also
include Chinese language, performers, theatrics and
acrobatics(杂技).
The resort is expected to bring 5 million new passengers
annually to the Pudong International Airport after it opens. It is
also expected to attract 10 million visits a year.
21. How much will a couple pay if they visit the park with a
1.3-meter tall kid on National Day?
A. About 830 yuan. B. About 1020 yuan.
C. About 1120 yuan. D. About 1370 yuan.
22. According to the text, what makes the Shanghai Disney
Resort special?
A. Its ticket system. B. Its Chinese characteristics.
C. The size of the park. D. The entertaining equipment.
23. Which is TRUE about the Shanghai Disney Resort?
A. 10 million visits are expected a year.
B. Its single day admission is the highest.
C. Tickets are available only on the website.
D. It is the first theme park on the Chinese mainland.
B
Harper Lee, whose 1961 novel To Kill a Mockingbird on the
racial troubles of the American deep south, has died at the age
of 89.
Until last year, Lee had been something of a one-book
literary legend. To Kill a Mockingbird sold more than 40 million
copies around the world and earned her a Pulitzer prize,
remaining a towering presence in American literature. Another
novel, Go Set a Watchman, was controversially published in July
2015 as a “sequel” to Mockingbird, though it was later
confirmed to be Mockingbird’s first draft.
But from the moment Mockingbird was published to almost
instant success, the author consistently avoided public attention.
Lee had lived for several years in a nursing home near the house
in which she had grown up in Monroeville, Alabama—the setting
for Maycomb of her famous book. Her neighbor for 40 years, Sue
Sellers, said, “She was such a private person. All she wanted was
privacy, but she didn’t get much. There was always somebody
following her around.”
James Naughtie, BBC Books Editor, commented on the
novels of Harper Lee: “I think she stands, particularly among
American readers, as someone who shone a light into a very dark
place. She was writing at a time when people were beginning to
lift the lid on everything in the South which they’d chosen not
to understand. That all changed in the 1960s. So I think her status
for writing that book in its extraordinarily direct way will remain.”
24. What does the underlined part in Paragraph 2 probably
mean?
A. Lee became successful with stories on American south.
B. People owe Lee’s success to luck to some degree.
C. Mockingbird makes Lee a wonder in American literature.
D. Mockingbird was a bestseller by selling 40m copies.
25. What does “Maycomb” in Paragraph 3 probably refer
to?
A. A nursing home. B. Lee’s hometown.
C. A fictional place. D. A main character.
26. Which best describes Americans’ attitude towards racial
troubles before the 1960s?
A. Tolerant. B. Unconcerned. C. Sympathetic. D. Dissatisfied.
27. What can we learn from the text?
A. Lee based all her stories on her life.
B. Lee had to avoid being followed by her fans.
C. Lee wrote Go Set A Watchman before Mockingbird.
D. Lee lived in the house where she grew up for the whole
life.
C
These days, young people in some English-speaking
countries are speaking a strange language, especially when
communicating on social media.
Look at these words chosen by The Washington Post:
“David Bowie dying is totes tradge,” and “When Cookie
hugged Jamal it made me totes emosh.” Or this sentence: “BAE,
let me know if you stay in tonight.”
What on earth do they mean? Well, “totes” is a short form
of “totally”. Similarly, “tradge” means “tragic” and
“emosh” means “emotional”. It seems that, for millennials(千
禧一代), typing in this form is not only time-saving but
fashionable.
As you can see, many millennial slangs(俚语)are formed by
so-called “totesing”—the systematic abbreviation(缩写)of
words. The trend might have started with “totally” becoming
“totes”, but it now has spread to many other English words.
The origins of other millennial slangs are more complex than
“totesing”. “Bae”, for example, has been widely used by
African-Americans for years. It can be an expression of closeness
with one’s romantic partner or, like “sweetheart”, for
someone without romantic connection. After pop singer Pharrell
used the word in his work, “bae” became mainstream.
Some people might think millennial slangs lower the value
of the English language, but Melbourne University linguist(语言
学家)Rosey Billington doesn’t agree. She says when people are
able to use a language in a creative way, they show that they
know the language rules well enough to use words differently.
Two other linguists, Lauren Spradlin and Taylor Jones, share the
same view. The two analysed hundreds of examples of totes-
speak and discovered totesing has complex roots. It isn’t simply
an adult version of baby talk, nor a clever way to minimize your
word count. Rather, it is a highly organized system that relies on
a speaker’s mastery of English pronunciation. It is about sounds,
follows sound system of English and has strict rules.
28. Why do young people like using e-slangs?
A. They are time-consuming. B. They are in fashion.
C. They are complex. D. They are in order.
29. What’s the author’s purpose of mentioning “Bae” in
Paragraph 5?
A. To support that totesing is no baby talk.
B. To analyse the usage of millennial slangs.
C. To inform people how it became mainstream.
D. To explain the complex origins of millennial slangs.
30. Which statement may Rosey Billington agree with?
A. Totesing is a loosely organized system.
B. Millennial slangs lower the value of English.
C. It’s simply a clever way to reduce the word count.
D. Totes-speak requires a good command of English.
31. What’s the best title of the passage?
A. E-slangs Catch on Among Youth B. Linguists Disapprove
of Totesing
C. Millennial Slangs Take the Lead D. English Has Greatly
Changed
D
There’s a “culture of walking and texting” on the Utah
Valley University campus, according to conversations with
students, but that’s not the main reason Matt Bambrough, the
creative director at UVU, came up with an idea to paint a
“texting lane” on a staircase leading up to the Wellness Center.
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