广东省揭阳市2018届高三第二次模拟考试英语试卷含答案

buttons can actually make you feel better by offering you a sense of control.

“A sense of control is very important. It reduces stress and increases well-being,” said Ellen J. Langer, a psychology professor at Harvard University. Experts also added that a lot of buttons that don’t do anything exist in our lives for this same purpose.

For example, pedestrian crosswalk buttons don’t live up to their names either. Pressing them used to help make the traffic signals change faster, but that was before computer controlled traffic signals were introduced.

But psychologists found it interesting that even when people are aware of these little “white lies”, they still continue to push fake buttons because as long as the doors eventually close, it is considered to be worth the effort.

32. What is the author’s purpose in writing the text? A. To explore the functions of fake buttons. B. To describe different buttons.

C. To analyze various habits of pushing buttons.

D. To explain the advantages and disadvantages of fake buttons. 33. What can we learn about the “close” buttons on a lift in America? A. They work when people press them hard. B. They were designed only for a sense of control. C. They never speed up the door-closing process. D. They take the safety of the disabled into account. 34. What can we infer about pedestrian crosswalk buttons? A. They can make people feel better. B. They help computers work faster. C. They can control the traffic signals. D. They help pedestrians cross quickly. 35. Which may be the best title for the passage? A. Buttons in the USA.

B. Buttons Always Lie. D. “Close” Buttons on Lifts.

C. Buttons May not Work.

第二节 （共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Showering Helps Brain

People get relaxation from various kinds of activities. For example, people can relax themselves by

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driving around, listening to light music, staring at green plants or just staring at the clouds in the sky. Taking a shower is relaxing. When showering, you can sing a song, daydream or think about nothing, leaving the real world behind you. 36 A piece of research made by Scott Barry Kaufman, a psychologist from Yale University in the US interviewed over 3,000 people around the world. 37 They said they were more likely to have new ideas in the shower than at work.

38 Science explains the reasons as follows. First, showering can help to raise our level of dopamine（多巴胺）, a hormone（荷尔蒙）closely related to our creativity. People vary in their level of creativity according to the activity of dopamine and taking a warm shower can make us feel relaxed and therefore make the dopamine level rise and bring the burst of an inspiration to us. Besides the chemical changes, showering may give you a break mentally from what may confuse you all the time. Especially when you have thought hard all day about a problem, jumping into the shower can keep you away from the outside world. 39 As a result, a showering hour may turn into an incubation（孵化）period for your ideas.

Compared with sitting in front of a computer, taking a shower can also give you a fresh experience with the change of location, temperature and humidity（湿度）. 40 Probably these changes make you think from a new point of view.

Showering allows us to enjoy the creative juices of our minds, so just have a try! A. Taking a shower can also make you feel more energetic. B. But do you know that showering can benefit your brain as well?

C. This is a perfect way for you to stay active and creative both mentally and physically. D. New and unexpected experiences can lead to positive changes in thinking. E. Without the outer disturbance, you can focus on your inner feelings and memories. F. So why does a simple shower have such magic power?

G. It turned out that nearly two thirds of interviewees had experienced new ideas in their minds during the shower.

第三部分 英语知识运用 （共两节，满分45）

第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

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As a child，Jane was very fond of animals． 41 , when she was growing up, all she ever heard was as follows,“Jane, you should be a vet（兽医）. You're going to achieve great success in that 42 . That’s the very thing you should do in the future.” So when she got to the Ohio State University, she took biology, chemistry and some other 43 , studying hard to be a vet.

Later on, she won a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship, which allowed her to spend her 44 year studying abroad in Manchester, England. Away from the family and the 45 from them, she found herself one day sitting at her desk, surrounded by biology books and 46 out of the window, when it suddenly hit her: “I’m in total 47 . I don't want to be a vet!”

Then she thought back over all the things she'd done in her life and what had made her 48 . And then it hit her——it was all of the youth leadership conferences that she had volunteered at and the communications and leadership course she had taken at Ohio State. “How could I have been so ignorant? Here I am in my fourth year at school and just finally aware that I’m on the 49 path. I just never took the time to 50 it until now,” she thought.

51 by her new thought, Jane spent the rest of her year in England taking 52 in communications and media studies. When 53 to Ohio State, she was 54 able to convince the administration to let her create her own program in “leadership studies”, 55 it took her 2 years longer to finally graduate. She 56 to become a senior management adviser in leadership training and development for the Pentagon. She 57 founded a drug-prevention organization, which 58 the message, “Lead your own life with the skill and the 59 to say no”.

So, never live someone else’s dreams. If you limit your choices only to what seems 60 or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want. 41. A. In fact 42. A. field 43. A. subjects 44. A. first 45. A. promise 46. A. staring 47. A. excitement

B. After all B. way B. objects B. second B. stress B. stepping B. sadness C. In a word C. university C. projects C. final C. help C. glaring C. delight D. As a result D. life D. programs D. past D. press D. glancing D. surprise 7

48. A. disturbed 49. A. direct 50. A. permit 51. A. Inspired 52. A. trips 53. A. relating 54. A. eventually 55. A. if 56. A. managed 57. A. still 58. A. concludes 59. A. fact 60. A. difficult B. sad B. wide B. admit B. Disappointed B. notes B. returning B. especially B. as B. failed B. never B. leaves B. will B. wonderful C. stressed C. wrong C. complete C. Embarrassed C. courses C. responding C. hardly C. although C. tried C. again C. warns C. truth C. possible D. happy D. terrible D. accomplish D. Confused D. programs D. referring D. desperately D. despite D. attempted D. also D. conveys D. chance D. special 第二节 （共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Today we talk about a word that is a feeling as well as a place. This word is “home.” Long ago in the 1700s, “home” was used as a verb, 61 (mean) “to be guided to a destination.” So, when you home in on something, you get 62 (close) to your target. For example, you could say, “Police are homing in on the suspects.” That is also where we get homing pigeons——pigeons that can find 63 (they) way home after being released.

But today, “home” is more often used as a noun. And it has a very emotional 64 (connect) for American English speakers. You can remember the meaning of the word by the expression “home is 65 the heart is.” That expression means home is anywhere you feel love and comfort. It is a place where you belong, and often a place you consider your origin. In other 66 (word) , “home” is not 67 (simple) a building where you live——that’s a house. There is a big difference 68 a home and a house.

The writer, Thomas Wolfe, had 69 different idea about home. In 1940, his book “You Can’t Go Home Again” 70 (publish). Today we use this title to mean that the ideas and feelings that you had as a child often change when you are an adult. So, even if you return to the place where you grew up,

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