河北省衡水中学2018届高三十五次模拟考试英语试题-Word版含答案

河北省衡水中学2018届高三十五次模拟考试英语试题-Word版含答案

There is a restaurant in my Maine town that has done little to update itself over the past 80 years. This is part of its charm, as is the wooden phone booth that sits neglected in the age of the cellphone. Ah, the phone booth. We need it now more than ever.

For me it symbolizes that phone calls were once private affairs, even if the information being shared was not sensitive in any way. It was simply assumed that a phone cenversation was meant for two people, and two people only.

Growing up in the 1960s, we had only phone in the house. As a kid, I didn’t get, or make many calls because all my friends five within earshot and I could just yell out the window if I wanted their attention. I do, however, remember answering the phone, asking for the identity of the caller, and then handing the phone to my mom, She’d take it, say “Hello, Mrs… one moment please,” and then as she placed her hand over the receiver, she turned to me, and directed, “This is for me. Why don’t you go outside and play?”

Flash forward to what cellphones have done to our life. Within the space of a few years, overhearing private conversations seems to be normal. Not long ago I was sitting in Boston’s South Station, near a man who was on his cellphone, waiting for my train.

The following is what the man had to say, “Yes, that’s right. The red and yellow roses.” Then he continued to recite his card number arid expiration date (有效期). I stared at the fellow. He glanced at me and asked, “What?” My response was immediate: I recited his card number back to him, along with the expiration date.

There is no longer a sense of personal borders or limits. The cellphone has become a megaphone (扩音器), and I have been privy (私下知情) to details of people’s lives that I would rather not know. Maybe phone booths could serve as cellphone harbors today. 24. What feature does the restaurant in Maine town have? A. It is very popular C. It will close down 21. As a kid, the author A. had a few friends B. often called his friends

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B. It is old-fashioned D. It has been neglected

河北省衡水中学2018届高三十五次模拟考试英语试题-Word版含答案

C. was not allowed to answer the phone

D. learned that phone conversations are private 26. What is the author’s attitude towards cellphone? A. Critical Approving

27. What did the author do in Boston’s South Station? A. He talked to an old friend. B. He bought some colorful roses.

C. He overheard a man’s personal information. D. He helped a stranger who was making a call.

C

My high school pays lots of attention to sports. Sports are well-celebrated. Arts and sciences are simply tolerated. Football players are princes. Artists are stepchildren. The ice hocky team walks on water. /Musicians just walk.

I am aware that the single greatest factor in preventing heart disease is regular and active exercise, and that gets my vote. In junior high school I played baseball and loved it. What I am against is unfair allocation of community resources to sports that benefit one select group of students over another. I believe school-should be even-handed when slicing the pie.

Our school will spend & 26,000 this winter alone to pay for ice time for the hocky team. That’s before even a dollar is spent on coaches, insurance, transportation, and equipment. On the other hand, the drama department doesn’t even have a good set of body microphones.

The athletic program at out school has become almost a religion. Many students are short of sleep because they have to catch a 6:20 a.m. school bus. The school day must start that early so athletes who travel around our town for away games (客场比赛) limit their missed classes. The result of this catering to sports is sleepy students and discouraged academic students.

Meanwhile, as more and more master teachers retire, our school cannot find experienced replacements — the cost of buying a home here is unaffordable for most

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B. Tolerate

C. Optimistic

D.

河北省衡水中学2018届高三十五次模拟考试英语试题-Word版含答案

teachers. Last year, an advertised math position drew only a single applicant. Yet instead of following the example of the best private schools by building teacher housing on school land, our school is ready to develop the last, prized acres of school land to expand the athletic fields even further.

I am not suggesting cutting down or even getting rid of any sports programs. I am simply stating that there’s no need to expand an already large athletic department. I think our school should take the advice of all wrestling coaches: Time to go on a little diet.

28. How does Paragraph 1 mainly develop? A. By making comparisons C. By analyzing reasons.

B. By providing examples.

D. By explaining terms.

29. Why does the school day start early? A. To avoid rush hour. B. To follow the tradition.

C. To let the students have more classes. D. To make the athletes miss fewer classes.

30. How can the author’s school attract replacement teachers? A. By providing accommodation for teachers. B. By improving the school environment. C. By increasing the school’s reputation. D. By offering teachers high salaries.

31. What does the author mean by saying “Time to go on a little diet” in the last paragraph?

A. Coaches need to be more careful about athletes’ diet. B. The school should give fewer resources to athletics. C. Athletes should limit the amount of food they eat. D. The athletic department needs to be downsized.

D

The earth has changed, over and over again, throughout the course of its history, In order to survive in changing environments, species must often go through a process

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河北省衡水中学2018届高三十五次模拟考试英语试题-Word版含答案

of adaptation. Adaptation refers to genetic change that enables an organism (生物体) such as an animal or plant to survive in its environment. If the organisms of a species cannot change along with the area in which they live, they risk dying out. Recent history has given us an important example of how organisms are able to survive once their environments change.

Light gray peppered moths (胡椒蛾) and dark-colored peppered moths lived in the countryside between the cities of Manchester and London in England, Many years before the 19th century, more of the light gray peppered moths had been able to survive in their environment mostly because of their color. Birds couldn’t see the light-colored moths on the trees because the color of the moths was similar to the color of the trees.

In the early 19th century, though, England began the first years of its Industrial Revolution. Many areas became occupied by a growing number of factories. Many of these factories needed coal to provide energy for their machines. When coal bums, it gives off a lot of dark-colored smokes. The trees began to blacken because of all the smoke in the air from the factories. This made the light gray peppered moths much more vulnerable. Birds could see them on the trees more dearly and easily hunt them down.

Sometime in the next hundred years, scientists began to notice a huge change in the moth population living in and between the cities of Manchester and London. Most of the peppered moths were of the dark-colored kind! What caused this change was the fact that birds had eaten a lot of the light gray peppered moths because the moths could be seen clearly on the darkened trees. The dark- colored peppered moths in the area survived much more easily and mated with other dark-colored peppered moths until most of the population of peppered moths became dark-colored.

32. If a species can’t adapt to the changing environment, they are likely to . A. be driven out of their habitat. C. move to another environment

B. become extinct

D. go through genetic changes

33. What conclusion can be drawn from the change in two kinds of moths? A. There were previously no dark-colored peppered moths. B. The light-colored peppered moths moved to a new environment.

C. The color change had nothing to do with the change in their environment.

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