高考模拟卷1
第I卷
I. Listening Comprehension (略)
II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A
Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, u one word that best fits each blank.
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia—At 19, Yohannes Gebregeorgis borrowed a novel entitled Love Kitten that changed his life forever. Born in rural Ethiopia, his father was an illiterate cattle merchant who insisted that his son (21)________(have) an education. So Gebregeorgis ha
d en a few books in school. But (22)_______ (have) a book of his own sparked a lifelong commitment.
Today, Gebregeorgis is establishing libraries and literacy programs to connect Ethiopian children with books. "Most Ethiopian children only have access to textbooks in the classroom," says Gebregeorgis. "Books (23)_______ children read outside of school are the spices of education."
Until he became a children's librarian, he didn't realize (24)_______ the children of his native home were missing. Arriving in the United States in 1981, Gebregeorgis ultimately put himlf through college, (25)________(obtain) a graduate degree in library science. He took a position at the San Francisco Children's Library in 1985. There, he met The Little Engine That Could, Captain Ahab, and Peter Pan. He realized the impact children's books could make (26)_______ a child's n of wonder and vision. "Children could imagine everything from books-connections to other cultures, to other people, to other children, and to the univer at large. Reading gives them hope. It gives them pleasure. It gives them everything that they cannot otherwi get in regular textbooks."
But Gebregeorgis found that there were no children's books in Amharic, the primary language of Ethiopia, and none reprenting the places and characters of Ethiopian lore. (27)_______ the library granted $1,200 for the purcha of Ethiopian books, Gebregeorgis was unable to find any, so he wrote one. Silly Mamma was the first bilingual Amharic-English children's book, and its publication led Gebregeorgis (28)_______ (establish) the nonprofit organization Ethiopia Reads in 1988. Using proceeds from book sales, the nonprofit organization (29)_________(finance) his efforts to bring children's libraries to Ethiopia.
Gebregeorgis reads storybooks to children who (30)________ (deny) access to television or computers and believes that literacy and education will emancipate his impoverished land. "With literate children there is no limit as to how much we can do."
Section B
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be ud once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A.payoff B. routinely C. decrea D. overlook E. accommodate F. match G. inevitable H. contrast I. inadequately J. shortage K. strongly |
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One of our expectations about education is that it will pay off in terms of upward mobility. Historically, the correlation between education and income has been strong. But in the early 1970s a contradiction developed between education and the economy. Our value of education and our average educational attainment exceeded the capacity of the economy to absorb the graduates. Since the 1970s, high-school graduates have experienced a striking ___31___in earnings, making them the first generation since World War Ⅱ to face a lower standard of living than their parents had.
Experts have argued that this contradiction is at the heart of the problem of public education today. It is not, as business leaders claim, that the schools are failing to properly educate students, that they are turning out young people who are __32___ prepared to function in the workplace. The real problem is a(n) ___33__ of economic opportunities for students who are not continuing on to college.
College graduates also are having difficulty finding jobs. Even when they do, the jobs may not ___34__ their training and expectations. Part of the problem is that too many young Americans aspire to have professional jobs, making disappointment and frustration
__35___ for some. Many students assumed that what was true of an individual — that the higher the education, the better the job opportunities —would also be true for an entire society. But when the numbers of better-educated young people became too great, the economy could no longer __36___ them.
Another part of the problem is the assumption that greater educational attainment guarantees career advancement. In fact, employers do not __37___ reward educational attainment; rather, they reward it only when they believe it will contribute to the employee's productivity.
We should not __38___ the fact that there is still a strong correlation between education, occupation, and income. College graduates have a strong advantage over tho with less education. But the ___39__ is neither as large nor as certain as it once was.
Unfortunately, Americans have focud so ___40__ on the economic payoff that many consider their college education uless if it does not yield a desirable, well-paying job. Only in this n can we speak of an "oversupply" of college graduates. We could argue
that all or at least the majority of Americans would profit by some degree becau higher education can enable the individual to think more deeply, explore more widely, and enjoy a greater range of experiences.
III. Reading Comprehension
Section A
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phras marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phra that best fits the context.
Every year in Pamplona, Spain, hundreds of people run alongside 1,300-pound (600-kilo) bulls, just for the fun of it. And every year at least a few of the people are ___41___, some riously. Yet this does not stop people from participating in the event.
What is it that drives some people to ___42___ extreme risks, while the rest of us run to the safety of the sidelines? Lester Keller, a longtime ski coach, says that not everyone has the mental makeup to ___43___ in dangerous pursuits. He notes that most of us hit
a natural ceiling that ___44___ our appetite for extreme risk and, ___45___, our ability to perform well in dangerous conditions. But others have a much higher tolerance for risk.
The ___46___ that drives many people away from the risks of extreme sports may be the same ingredient that keeps others coming back for more. Mountaineer Al Read has ___47___ many notable first ascents over the cour of his climbing career. Having climbed for over 40 years, Read says he no longer pushes to the extremes as he once did— but the feeling is still vivid. “ I can remember when I was getting into situations where I thought that at any moment I could be killed,” “But we’d get back down, and when we were ___48___ we’d say, “Man was that great!” he recalled. “You forget how ___49___ it was, and you go back again."
___50___ not being afraid of risks, certain people may ___51___ risks differently from others. Shane Murphy, a sports psychologist says he is struck by the way they redefine risk according to their skills, experience, and environment. He worked with a group climbing Everest without oxygen, which to him was the riskiest thing anyone could do. Mu
rphy said the ___52___ of extreme athletes is very different from our own. “We look at a risky situation and know that if we were in that situation, we would be out of control,” he said. “But from the athletes’ perspective, they have a lot of control, and there are a lot of things that they do to minimize __53____.”
